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Juvederm in Nasolabial Lines. Overfill? Lines worse - Santa Monica, CA

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I had juvederm in my naso lines about five months...

Tesssa
$300
I had juvederm in my naso lines about five months ago. It looked great. No downtime, barely any swelling, no bruising, I just looked fantastic. I noticed it started to fade just a bit and figured getting a touch up would be OK, but I wasn't sure. Maybe it could overfill? My doctor (a new one -- in Santa Monica -- I had a botox scare with my last one and wrote a lot about it!), who seems good, did a tiny touch up to even things out. Charged me for half a vial but didn't use that much. Directly after, I looked great. I even went out that night and felt confident and pretty. 24 hours post, I notice redness at the injection sight, almost like broken capillaries, I can feel the stuff under my skin (it feels like a hard gummy worm) and it's raised enough to actually make new lines on my face. Like indents from the raised product. My smile looks cat-like too. I really, really don't like that. Now, I'm not so experienced with this and perhaps I should have stuck with my old doctor (this new one came highly recommended), but it all seemed to easy before. Since I looked fine immediately after, I am just PRAYING this is swelling and will subside in a few days. Anyone else had this experience? Looking great after, and then swelling for a few days? I've heard about this with lips (though I've never done them -- THAT scares me!) but not as much with the naso lines. I'm icing right now and hoping to god this settles down. After some trial and error with procedures, I feel only two things are needed to make me look refreshed -- the naso lines filled and a touch of botox at the 11 lines. And nothing else. I am striving for the most natural look I can and don't mind dark circles, smile lines and all that. This is disconcerting as it's in the middle of my face.

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UPDATED FROM Tesssa
3 days post

Looks a little better but I don't like my smile...

Tesssa
So, there's still some redness where the filler was placed but when my face is slack, it looks OK. However, when I smile, it pushes me cheeks up and causes extra lines. I don't mind the extra crow's feet lines so much (I don't love them, but they don't look unnatural at least) but it actually causes lines directly under my eyes, kind of mushed up horizontal lines that I've never had before. It's making me insecure about my smile, which is a bummer since I like smiling. It didn't do this the first time I had filler. I can tell that it's just so filled that it's not moving properly. I am worried I didn't wait long enough for more to dissipate and I overfilled. Anyone had this happen? Could it possibly still be swelling? Will it settle down? I don't want to deal with the dissolver, but I don't wan't to feel weird when I smile. It's only been three days. Kind of sad.

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October 31, 2014
I am sorry you are having a rough time with this process.  I have read others say that with some time this settles down.  
UPDATED FROM Tesssa
4 days post

OK... bluish tint scared

Tesssa
So the swelling has gone down a lot. My smile looks a lot better. BUT, and I am freaking out a little over this, the broken capillaries I was worried about have now turned into a kind of bluish tint. Of course I do my research before and after anything and I'm worried this is tyndall effect and not a bruise. The reason it doesn't look like a bruise is because it runs along the fold treated, straight. I don't think a bruise would look like that. I was tripping today because I thought -- weird -- I am definitely filled, why do my lines now look more pronounced? I realized because those marks were making them pronounced. I called for a follow up on Monday. Praying this is a damn bruise but I am freaked out. It's pretty slight -- not like people on the street would think -- Ohmygod what happened? But it's not exactly what I wanted and it doesn't look like the first time I got it, which looked great and I didn't even think about any of this. I'll follow up after Monday. I know they can dissolve it but dammit. I don't want to. I just want it to be normal.

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