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Loved it but it literally only lasts 3-4 months....
And I was told it lasts about a year. I changed my "Was it Worth It?" from Yes to Not Sure just because I can't be running back every 3-4 months and paying another $1,500 for a threadlift. Probably at my age I need to bite the bullet and get a full-on facelift.
PDO Thread Lift Instant Gratification
I'm 61 and really starting to look haggard...like everything is melting down my face. Ugh. I tried Profound rf, Sculptra and Ultherapy all within the last year and was disappointed in them all. I've always liked the instant gratification of filler so I went to have lip filler again and was asking Dr. Darush what I could do about my melting face and he recommended the PDO Thread Lift. It was very affordable, $1,500 for 3 threads on each side of face so I made an appt. He had already told me that I had scar tissue under one of my cheeks and the scar tissue was attached to my bone and so part of my skin on my cheek was not very flexible. I have no idea how it got there unless it was one of the above stated previous procedures or CO2 Smartskin Fraxel Laser I had about 5 years ago.
He put 3 threads in each side which is on the conservative side. (I just want to look 50 again, not 30.) It turns out I had some scar tissue on each side under my cheeks so it was a bit difficult at times for him to get through it with the cannula. It hurt some, but I was expecting it to hurt and it wasn't unbearable. A few times the process did make me a bit queasy for a minute or two. It's just odd feeling these cannula moving under your skin. Then he swipes his hand upward on the skin several times to help the cones lock in which is a bit uncomfortable, and then pulls on the strings that are hanging out of the top of my cheek, which again feels odd...not really painful...just weird.
I'm going back to get a few more as soon as I can. These work like fillers work..it's literally instant gratification! When I walked in my house my teenager daughter immediately said she saw a difference.
I've taken some Tylenol twice since I had it done yesterday, just because I have one place that is very tender (where the worst of the scar tissue was,) but I have no bruising (again my teenager brought that up because I typically look like I've been in a bar fight when I have anything done). I can also kind of feel a barb poking once in awhile, but it isn't consistent and once I readjust my face position it stops.
After all the disappointment I've had with other procedures, I would gladly do this every year for the rest of my life!
He put 3 threads in each side which is on the conservative side. (I just want to look 50 again, not 30.) It turns out I had some scar tissue on each side under my cheeks so it was a bit difficult at times for him to get through it with the cannula. It hurt some, but I was expecting it to hurt and it wasn't unbearable. A few times the process did make me a bit queasy for a minute or two. It's just odd feeling these cannula moving under your skin. Then he swipes his hand upward on the skin several times to help the cones lock in which is a bit uncomfortable, and then pulls on the strings that are hanging out of the top of my cheek, which again feels odd...not really painful...just weird.
I'm going back to get a few more as soon as I can. These work like fillers work..it's literally instant gratification! When I walked in my house my teenager daughter immediately said she saw a difference.
I've taken some Tylenol twice since I had it done yesterday, just because I have one place that is very tender (where the worst of the scar tissue was,) but I have no bruising (again my teenager brought that up because I typically look like I've been in a bar fight when I have anything done). I can also kind of feel a barb poking once in awhile, but it isn't consistent and once I readjust my face position it stops.
After all the disappointment I've had with other procedures, I would gladly do this every year for the rest of my life!
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