My Experience Changed my Life - Scottsdale, AZ

It would be great to see REAL before and after pics. I mean....the BEFORE your LSL with the weight off (they take them in the office for you, if indeed you had a LSL) AND the AFTER that they take. Your before and after pics indicate a wonderful weight loss (excellent for you....I recently lost 35 and could post similar pics) but if you had a LSL, could you kindly post before face pics and straight on after pics?? Thanks!

Dear McKen58, I wanted to tell you that I don't think your request for more realistic pictures with LSL before and after pictures, the way most everyone does here.

Was rude, mean or unrealistic.

Thanks for your input Britt44, my biggest concern with choosing to do something with my face was I did not want a strange look that made my eyes look 'foxlike' and my mouth look drawn tight, so I chose LifeStyle Lift because I couldnt argue with peoples results. Holycow is right, I was surprised with my home care being more than I expected, but was fully supported by the office staff and Dr. Robledo. My results have absolutely changed my life, I am not a really shallow person, but I am thrilled at the complements I receive daily. I am thrilled to look at my new self which is really only my old self. I went through hard times of about a decade going through cancer of my spouse, I lost myself, and with care and exercise and my LIFT, I am now back to being myself and feeling every bit as happy as I deserve. I have no regrets, I dont feel cheated and my face is gorgeous without strange pulls and tugs and puckers....I love it!

Britt...you are RIGHT ON. You are undergoing a FACELIFT in a dentist chair. Don’t let anyone kid you. Had I known what the ENTIRE procedure was going to be, I would never have done it. My doctor (Dr. ISHOO), schmoozed me as much as the office staff/constants did. He told me “2 small incisions at the hair line.” HA! I had NO CLUE that they CUT YOUR EAR LOBES OFF AND SEW THEM BACK ON until my bandages came off. I followed their directions to the T....and came out with a younger look, yes, yes...but permanent nerve damage in my face:( Save your money...get botox, get shots of anything...but don’t do this. Go to a real, experience, HIGHLY recommended plastic surgeon. This, sadly, is a crap shoot and LSL has their employees post on here. NYS fined them for doing so.....you can’t even trust the good posts:(

mcKen
you are absolutely right it is a face lift in a dental chair.

I am really happy about your outcome, Bobbi. I don't think any of us are shallow - just want to turn back the clock a bit & feel good about ourselves. Aging is no fun from a cosmetic standpoint! From the research I've done, it seems like the type of (full) facelift you have determines your final outcome. I am terrified of having that "windswept" (i.e., Bruce Jenner) look, but with the proper technique (& surgeon of course!), you can have a very natural-looking facelift, which is my ultimate goal. I'm 42 and have been to 3 consultations with highly recommended plastic surgeons in my area. They all basically suggested the same type lift and procedures, which was reassuring. I am really just beginning to show the 1st signs of aging - not many wrinkles, but sagging jowl and neck line, etc. I have read many times that the younger you are when you have a facelift, the longer it can last, due to the skin's elasticity. I will still probably wait a few years. I have had fillers done on the lower eye lids and was pleased with the results, but unfortunately it's wearing off and time to go back soon. I wish you the very best!

McKen 58~ Thanks for your candid response. I'm so sorry you've had to suffer because of your surgery. Dr. Ishoo sounds like a scam artist and should lose his license for misleading you and probably many, many other patients. Hopefully your story will help others out there considering this or any other kind of plastic surgery. This is nothing to go into lightly. Do your research - on the procedure(s) and especially the BOARD CERTIFIED plastic surgeon. Get at least 3 opinions from the top-rated surgeons you find. Most people would get 3 estimates/opoinions when repairing their car and your health/procedural outcome are far more critical! I wish you all the best and continued healing. So sad that LSL employees post inaccurate information on here. They, too, should be ashamed of misleading people about such a life-changing procedure.

Dear Holycow: Thanks for your complements and let me tell you, I am a happy girl. I hope your lift is all you hoped it would be, I continue to enjoy the results everyday, and I agree the home care was alot of responsibility, but the staff was fully supportive and in a brief time I was healed and loving it!!!! Best wishes, Bobbi

Dear Bobbi,
Also.....are still experiencing the numbness and tightness?? If not,when did these sensations go away?

My incisions are quite alive at this point, 6 months post surgery, they are lightened and itch and I massage them just like any scar from any other surgery. In a year they will be a faint memory, and the nerves will in time heal. But in the mean time I love my face!!

zero tightness, feeling natural, looking natural, I forget it ever happened....6 months post surgery

Holycow....how long ago was yours? My face still itches....it’s been four years. For the first year I thought I would pull my face off once the swelling went down:(

I had my lsl in mid January. so far I am happy with the results. They are not perfect. Some of my "flaws" have returned , but not enough to matter. It actually makes me look more normal, not perfect. The numbness bothers me less. No itching to speak of. No one that has heard me talk about this operation is brave enough to withstand the horrible pain of the needles but everyone loves my results. My doctor is from Hopkins. I,too, am from that area of the country and it is why I chose him.

I hope that your results will indeed last that long & that you're satisfied with the procedure. Best of luck!

how about NO HOME care?? but of course I was in the early days of this barbaric procedure.....and no home care was advised or recommended....it was a "LUNCH TIME LIFT"--

they got away with alot of maiming back then....

mine was done in 2005 in PLYMOUTH MEETING PENNSYLVANIA

google that office if you will

they are gone and all the "doctors" that did the $5000 LSL are gone too.

I am 53 years old--had a baby with NO anesthesia at all..nothing....

when my "doctor" started to stab me with the 60++ shots of lidocaine I received...
the floor came up to my head...

I told him

"doc" I feel sick--I think I am going to faint"

( having never done that before)
he did slap a blood pressure cuff on my arm

and he did administer 02---

my gray pasty sweaty face was probably enough to convince him I was not being a sissy-----

later he did call me a "sissy"

my bp stabilized and he did continue with cutting my muscles and nerves in my face--

remember --I had NO DRIVER WITH ME--

shouldn't that office had known that I walked in alone??
and walked out alone into a HUGE PARKING LOT

wandered around for 20 minutes crying...I could not find my car.....

the door was closed to LSL at that point....

yuck

Okay, I was first introduced to Dr. Robledo, and felt that he and I could work well together. I was completely impressed by his open and frank manner. He didn't try to put up a false face to me, he is as educated in equal measure as a man from John Hopkins. I have worked in Pharmacy for 25 years, people are people no matter their degree. It should count for something yes, Stanford, Ivy leagues, of course. But how could I discount a qualified surgeon who offers me support and honesty because his degree doesnt say John Hopkins. We discussed my case at length, we spoke openly, and on the day a calm, qualified surgeon who treated me like gold gave me the best gift, my face back....thank Goodness I chose him.....

Bobbi...sorry, but your post made me LAUGH OUT LOUD! I live in Baltimore and therefore have had the honor of dealing with many physicians at JohnS Hopkins. It is JohnS Hopkins, by the way. Are you a LSL employee? I went to Dr. Patrick Byrne, at JOHNS HOPKINs...he is a world renowned Plastic Surgeon there. I went for a consult because I have been left with permanent nerve damage as a result of my LSL. He told me that they get “mailings” from LSL all of the time, trying to get their doctors to come on board to do this part-time to make a “great extra income.” He thought the whole thing cookie cutter surgery and tells his people there to throw the letter away.

So, to try and compare a LSL surgeon who is doing it FOR EXTRA INCOME, is an insult to those doctors who take their oath seriously. They operate on US in a DENTAL chair for their EXTRA INCOME. Nice, isn’t it?

I take offense to your comments, leave me alone, I had a good experience, you had a sour one, it doesnt involve me. My profile is not about you.....

It just doesn't ring true, that's all.

"sour" is not a good word to describe life long scarring CLICK ON MY PICTURES for "sour" if you will

Please take your negative and accusatory conversation back to your own profile, you are rude.

me?

You are obviously having issues that need to be taken up with REALSELF, not me, you need to take your conversation back to your own profile, I am sorry for your situation, again, I had a good experience and see no reason to be harassed for it. Thank you for steering your conversation from your own profile......

No that was directed to McKen58...

bobbi

I am 7 years out from this surgery....nothing can correct the permanent brown ugly BIG stains on my neck that were caused by improper drainage --usually in a facelift drains are placed to prevent this kind of blood "pooling" from taking place....

I had no post op care; no drains.....don't think I dont wonder every day for the last 7 years why this happened to me.

I would ask you ---to report me to your office ---where I believe you had "great" results.....and ask them to look at my pictures and try and explain what happened to me.....

seek help from the proper agency, from RealSelf staff, I am not the person to vent to....I was kind enough to respond to your comments, now enough, you have issues that I cant help you with and you need to seek help in the proper way...

I am way out of statue ..... hence there is no "proper agency ---I am allowed I believe to express my opinion of what happened to me.

right?

look at my pictures

they don't lie.

Bobbi...sorry if you don't come off as real and sincere. If you had a "great" experience, then brava for you. A woman DIED in the office where I had mine. I can't and will NEVER be a cheerleader for LSL. When you post real before and after pics (I mean, we ALL took them with our own cameras, didn't we?) then I will believe that you are on the level. And that will still NEVER make me encourage women to try this scam. It is dangerous that you do so. It is a crap shoot. Not picking on you, and sorry if you find it "rude" but this is about saving others.

Miss Bobbi Schaefer! This website is for sharing information about experiences with the corporate medical practices such as this one and the mini lift, quick lift...those are on other threads on this website. As long as I've been posting, Every review page is open to discussion by anyone who wants to.

Too whom are you directing your comments to. Didn't you know that Bobbi this is an open forum and if your statements get questioned, that is not being rude. Johns Hopkins Drs don't work for LSL unless probably they got disciplinged and can't work anywhere else. Real Surgeons will not perform open wound surgery in non-surgical office rooms.

Disciplined , sorry. LSL hires many disciplined Drs and Drs with records, so that if they grow a conscience and quit and start exposing the #@$&*$%, then LSL uses that against them to discredit their statements...from former employees to Drs who have worked for them. This is about the truth, and not whether or not some of you might have been lucky enough not to get a sour dr.

Bobbi, I don't understand your taking such offense at comments which are only speaking the truth. and in another comment from you on this page, you ask for us to "steer our comments elsewhere, take your negative and accusatory conversation back to your own profile, you are rude" There has been nothing rude said to you by anyone on this page. We all have wished you well and have said we are happy doesn't make a difference to you? AND You have posted on other reviews and have not just stayed on your own page. I'm sorry about your perception that it is rude to express ones experiences and knowledge of the "procedure" SURGERY according to our experience. You have done the same thing on other reviews as well.