Hyaluronidase for Hideous Tear Trough Filler

On July 10, 2017 I made a huge mistake of getting under eye filler with an aesthetic nurse at a wellness center. Because of a couple selfies in poor lighting I started to think that I had under eye hollows. She played into my insecurity agreeing with me and advising me to get Vollure of the Juvederm filler family as it came with 2 syringes and she thought I needed more than 1. Needless to say it turned out absolutely hideous: overfilled with huge bumps and ridges and unnatural looking dark blue “rings” under my eyes. It also created weird creases where I never had any creasing before the procedure. I developed malar bags as well. It made me look like a 100 yr old witch. When I showed it to her on day 5, she said it looked great and I needed to wait 2 weeks. Yeah, I looked “great”, alright...maybe if I were to go out for Halloween dressed as a zombie without having to do any make up! I told her I hated it and wanted it gone. She said she could take it out but the dissolver would burn and make my eyes red and super irritated, basically describing something out of the Exorcist. She then proceeded to tell me that she never even injected Vitrase around the eye area. At that point I was not about to let her touch my face and went home instead to do more research online over the weekend. There were only a handful of hyaluronidase reviews with positive outcomes and one of them was from Carmk here on RealSelf. Her doctor was Dr. Todd Hobgood from Scottsdale, AZ. Her review gave me hope and I contacted the office on Monday. Dr. Hobgood was booked a month out but they were able to get me in on July 20, 2017. I am so grateful they did because I could not imagine living with that mess any longer and now I know that it is best to not wait and to dissolve it as soon as possible. Filler stretches out the delicate under eye skin and it is hard for it to bounce back, I think that is the main contributing factor in all of the hyaluronidase horror stories on here.
Ashley, one of Dr. Hobgood assistants, let me speak with Annie Bruno, Certified Aesthetics Nurse Injector at their office. I told her about my experience and she was very reassuring and took her time to calm me down and let me know that they had been successful with correcting filler issues but it may take several rounds of hyaluronidase with cross linked fillers like Vollure, which is not the best product to use for the delicate under eye area. I really appreciated her input and she made me feel so much better.
I was a nervous wreck on the day of the appointment with Dr. Hobgood and almost passed out in the waiting area filling out treatment consent forms. I was called into one of the patient rooms, Dr. Hobgood walked in and all of my worries melted away. I immediately knew I made the right choice. He treated me with so much kindness and compassion, he didn’t even have to ask me what happened, he knew exactly what was wrong with my eyes and told me it was not going to get better on its own. The area was extremely overfilled. I told him that the original injector used a syringe and a half and he though that amount was excessive. I asked him if the hyaluronidase injections would burn or irritate the eyes and he said that none of his patients ever mentioned that before. Dr. Hobgood used Widease (not sure of the spelling), I did not feel a thing, no burning, no redness, nothing... I could not believe it. It was absolutely painless. I could immediately see the difference and those horrid blue rings were disappearing.
I had a total of 5 rounds of Widease with Dr. Hobgood over the course of 11 months. The new generation of cross linked fillers is made to last longer making it more difficult to get rid of. Dr. Hobgood did an amazing job. He saved my eyes and my sanity! I definitely hold him in high regard and tell everyone how amazing of a doctor and a human being he really is. All the beautiful ladies at his office are really sweet and thoughtful as well. I am so grateful to all of them!