Dr Weiler RUINED MY ABDOMEN

I had Smart Lipo with Weiler a while back. The one thing that bothered me my whole life was my abdomen. Upper and lower abdomen looked separate and I wanted it smooth from upper to lower. I finally decided to do something about it, and decided to go to Weiler because I knew him, considered him a professional acquaintance, and I felt I could trust him since I was familiar with him. I consulted with him and he gave me all the right answers and I was super excited to have the abdomen I had always wanted. So I had the procedure and about a week out I was still majorly swollen and my abdomen was hard. The swelling wasn’t going down and I felt like a sausage stuffed in the garment. I went to see him and he suggested I take lasix to help get rid of the fluid. I took them religiously. After a month or so I knew something wasn’t right. The lower part of my abdomen was becoming less swollen but the upper abdomen was still very swollen, hard, and protruded over my belly button. I went back to Weiler and he suggested we try to inject something, I can’t remember what it was because it’s been a while, into the hard area to loosen it up some and hopefully smooth it out. He suggested we could do it in the office without sedation, so that’s what we did. A few minutes into these injections it felt like he was injecting fire under my skin. I was literally crying and trying to tough it out as long as possible but eventually had to tell him to stop. He said ‘oh well, now we’ll have to go back to surgery.’ So that’s what we did. This next time he made a horizontal incision a few inches long over my belly button. After the surgery, nothing changed. He then suggested we go back yet another time and he would extend the incision a few more inches on each side and try to smooth it out again. He said this go round would likely do the trick, but it didn’t. My upper abdomen still had a big hard protruding area, now with a 4 inch scar under it, and my belly button was shifted to the left and now looked like a vertical slit and not a circle. After the incision healed up I went back to Weiler to see what, if anything, we could do. My abdomen was a disaster. At my visit, he walked in with his assistant at that time. I was so upset to even show my abdomen and when I did, he looked at his assistant with a smirk on his face, put his hands up, shrugged his shoulders, and they both laughed. Literally laughed out loud and he said ‘I mean, there’s nothing I can do for you anymore.’ No suggestions, no empathy, no care, no bedside manner, no nothing. He just got up off his stool and they both walked out. I was left there standing with the paper gown on and no one came back. I was so upset disappointed and angry. I got dressed and left and never heard from him or his office again. Some people will ask ‘why did you keep going back to him’ and its because I thought I could trust him. I knew him and he knew me professionally and I figured no way in the world would he do a bad job on me. He reassured me it would be exactly what I was looking for. I lived with his horrible work for a long time and decided to see if there was something more that could be done. So since then, I had surgery to try to smooth the abdomen out, which didn’t work, only left me with a longer scar. I had fat transferred to the lower abdomen because there were now areas that had healed stuck down to the muscle and was causing big indentions. I was told by a few doctors that those areas were stuck down because Weiler had the instrument too hot or left it in those spots for too long and basically burned the tissue causing adhesions. I had a very reputable plastic surgeon tell me that the hard area in my upper abdomen likely didn’t have a good blood supply going to it and would make the healing very difficult. He said I would need a full tummy tuck, lipo, and fat transfers, at a price of $50,000-60,000, and there was no guarantee it would be what I wanted because too much damage had been done. Every opinion I got, the doctor would ask me ‘what kind of plastic/cosmetic surgeon would make a scar across a woman’s stomach like that??’ I didn’t have that surgery or any other procedures. I’ve been living with the disappointment and anger every time I see myself in the mirror. I wish I could turn back time and would have never trusted Weiler with the one thing in life that I always wanted. I can’t wear a bikini, sports tops, or anything that shows my abdomen and I’m 100% embarrassed for anyone to see it. I see all these positive and happy reviews and wonder why that couldn’t have been me. Every time I see Weiler’s smiling face I’m reminded of how he and his assistant laughed in my face, took my money, costed me thousands to try to somewhat fix his mistakes, how someone who took an oath to do no harm could be so uncaring and callous, and it makes me nauseated. Just know it can happen to you even if you think you can trust someone. I gave him 1 star only because you can’t choose zero stars on this site. He deserves no praise or good job done for what he did and if one day he needs cosmetic surgery, I can only hope that karma exists.