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POSTED UNDER Breast Lift Reviews

Not Happy in - Sugar Land, TX

UPDATED FROM RitaKolb
1 year post

Update 12/29/2014

$10,000
Well...here are my pictures after 1 year and 3 months. Still pretty ugly. I have gone for 2 appts with other plastic surgery Dr's. My breasts can be fixed. It will cost $20,000 to fix them. They both have never even heard the term "dog ears", which I guess means ugly sticking out scars. I will have the breasts redone, the right way, this year. I do feel that Dr. Horndeski should have to pay for my redo, since he did not live up to what he promised with the first surgery. Anyway, take a look at the mess Dr. Horndeski calls a good breast lift.

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Gary M. Horndeski, MD

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Thanks for posting and keeping us up-to-date. . . . .I'm so sorry for your results and that you now need to spend more money to fix what should have been done correctly in the first place.
I agree. That fact that his employees and advocates are on this board talking about the revision process is ludicrous. He's been doing this procedure long enough to have perfected it by now. The fact that he is still disfiguring people from this "revolutionary"procedure is mind boggling.
@Elleng. Thanks for your kind and wise words! Happy New Year !
I get so annoyed when he responds to anyone's doctor questions, I have seen girls on here who have gone to him and it is a crap shoot, some ok and some butchered, that is not plastic surgery! He should respect womens bodies more, hang in there girl- hugs and prayers
@Rsmith175. I totally agree!!!! Thanks.
Thank you for you comments. I totally agree with everything you said.
Exactly. He needs to retire and ppl on this thread saying his work fine must for work him or just blind. Before I seen this post I seen his work and was completely put off. His work was horrible to me I am so glad I didn't even consider going to a consultation. He was the reason I was nervous about getting a lift, I was worried about them turning out like his
@dangerouslybeautiful....wish I had seen the true work he does before have the surgery done. Thanks for hour kind words.
thank you! qqqtrader
Rsmith I agree
Thank you so much for sharing.
I would never ever use him! Who will do revision?
I have gone for appts with two different plastic surgeons, in Houston.
It was really hard to get another surgeon to fix what he did
Finally found one
Please let me know who you are using as mostly likely I will have to do the same....:(
Hello
Hello.
I am so sorry! He should have never promised to make it perfect. You know that surgery results will never be perfect but for him to tell you that gives you a false hope, and he definitely did a poor job. I hope it gets better for you. Best of luck!!
UPDATED FROM RitaKolb
9 months post

Almost 9 months later

Hello! New update. New ugly pictures. Breasts not improving with time. Not surprised. Still square breasts, still major scars, still extremely unhappy with Dr Horndeski. He ruined my life for this past 9 months. I will survive this and have them made over, correctly soon. Then, I will post pictures of what a true breast lift and pretty breasts should look like! Thanks for all the kind words of encouragement during this horrible life event!

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I'm so sorry to have to deal with such disappointment. We as women want to look in the mirror and feel good about ourselves and be happy with what we see. And when we try to fix what we don't it sucks sooo bad when we find that one dr we trust to help us and just makes it worse. Stay positive babe. And I know this is very expensive to deal with...but I hope you are about to get them fixed to your likings and feel better about them.
I just had a revision on my lift cause I was so unhappy with my results...so that's y I understand how you feel. But I mean my results were good but just not wat I WAS looking for. So my dr gave me a revision. He is a great dr. I'm very lucky to find him. Cause when I wasn't happy he wasn't happy...he wants all his patients to be happy, so on that part Im Very lucky. I hope u find a caring and good dr next time around.
@hearts218. It would be wonderful to have had a dr like yours. Mine probably would have done some kind of repair, but honestly, I am too scared to let him touch me ever again. That ole saying, Fool me once, your fault....fool me twice, my fault. I have found a dr that I am considering my redo with. He was extremely surprised that Dr Horndeski did such a blotched up job on me, and left me this way. I am just kind of gun shy to let anyone cut on me again, after this mess. Thanks for your kind words.
Good luck sweety!
My deepest sympathies, but get a lawyer, preferably female. I had to sue a doctor. he didn't want his name tarnished and payed quickly once the lawyer called him.
Thanks @cocktails. Good advice.
Take the advice, Rita. I have a feeling the clock has run out on your ability to retain a lawyer. Two years from date of surgery is the time frame!
May you get success with your revision. I am so sorry to hear the update. I had my chin revised and it is tough to go back. Bless you on this journey. Hugs of hope for brighter days in your future. Xo
Thanks for your kind words. Did you have success with your chin?
Thank you for sharing your experience, hearing the good and bad of any Doctor's work is very important to me. I was wondering about how many questions the Doctor asked about nipple placement and did he seemed concerned about getting it perfect? Also did you find any answers as to why the scarring is so thick in the end of the healing as well as the side pucker?
He had no concerns about nipple replacement. I had pretty large nipples, so he had plenty to work with. His answers on all my concerns are the same, "I just can't please you". I'm really not that hard to please. I just expect what I pay for. I did not get it from this dr. This is my opinion and my story, so haters, please don't pounce on me for telling my story. Not you @sasha.fire, but others do it every time I post on here. My new Dr will correct all the mistakes made by this Dr. Thanks for your questions.
I just hate to hear it when someone's surgery goes wrong. In every medical setting, these things happen. Someimes there is no way to tell before hand and it scares the hell out of me. I'm wondering if I have enough brest tissue to get a lift alone. Arggggg
Best advice is to do your research! Wish I had done more! Good luck.
I too don't like the way mine look and it has been almost 5 months. My scars are bad, one of my nipples is bigger than the other, but they said it would go down when the dead breast tissue around my nipple finally absorbs. The right nipple is still hard as a rock and I had an opening about a week ago that healed up after I squeezed all of the yellow liquid out. I'm not happy either. Wish I would have never had it done.
@Giddy54. I am so so sorry you are going thru this. I feel you, believe me, I KNOW what you are going thru. Who was your dr? I also not only have 2 mis shaped nipples, one is actually higher than the other one. I am just a mess. Wish I had never trusted this Dr to operate on me. Good luck to you. Please keep me posted.
UPDATED FROM RitaKolb
6 months post

6 months after breast lift

Well, as painful as this is...here are my pictures 6 months after my breast lift surgery. Hope this is helpful to anyone considering going to Dr Horndeski.

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Hey!, Sorry to hear about your experience, hopefully you can get them fixed!!! Sending positive vibes your way :)
@ozymandias. Thanks sweetie. I will get them fixed, and soon. Probably in September. It will be a year then.
I understand only you know what you're experiencing and what they might look like in person, but to me they look good....and I'm not just saying that. I don't see a huge difference between what you got and what other women got in terms of scar and shape.
@pina coladaa. Seriously? This Dr took me from a D cup to a B cup, with massive scars under my breasts and major scars around the nipples, and bunched places at the ends of both breasts. And you don't see any difference in my surgery and other women's surgery? Open your eyes. I now have 2 sizes smaller breast, that are square in shape and horribly disfigured with scarring. If you don't see any difference, please keep looking, because you haven't seen how breasts after a really qualified surgery really look. NOTHING LIKE MINE. Thanks, I guess, for your opinion.
Well if you had posted a pic of what they looked like before that would help paint a clearer picture. I don't talk just to say words. Even your response to me shows your attitude on life and yourself. If you see your body and think "ugly!" then that's on you and i guess the dr. That's really all I have to say and good luck with how you choose to go forward. Hopefully your new decision will be made wth more research and questions :)
I would have posted before pictures, but Dr Horndeski had his camera stolen out of his car, he says anyway, with my before pics and name on them. So now my boobs are out there somewhere, with my name on them, for someone else to look at. I do not have an ugly vision of myself, in fact I think I look very good, except for my boobs. That is why I wanted them better than they were, so I would like my entire body. I have a wonderful attitude on life, just a bad one on the dr who totally messed me up and to think I paid him $10,000 to do it. Yes, I am the fool for trusting him! @ piña coladaa. Thanks for your comments.
I have my before pic. Pray this man never touches you or anyone you knows breast.
I totally agree... They look good now, he did the best he could for your age... you look like you were hard work.. you can't give him garbage and expect a miracle... and you are extremely negative... It seems like younger people heal better... so it's kind of on you if you decided to wait until you're in your 50's to bet a breast lift...
I've seen some amazing results from him... don't let these people who've teamed up against him make you not want to go to him...
Well let's all applaud you for that raving review of my surgery. I call bs on my age playing any part of his messes he creates by totally destroying women's breast. But thanks for your untrained eye and unkind remarks.
Amazing if you want to have several surgeries and still have square breast with dog ears. My breasts my opinion .
Where are your results? You have nothing posted except the two ugly comments on my blog. Seems a little fishy to me.....just saying....
Thank you. Believe me he will never get the chance.
Oh this comment got my attention. I had a mastopexy with small implant to fill the upper pole and had excellent results at age 59. I didn't NEED a lift until I was in my 50s. Why get surgery if it is not needed before 50? To put it on her because she waited and gave him "garbage" to start with is insulting. At age 59 My incisions were almost nonexistent in three months. The need for revisions should not be "standard" and only necessary in very limited cases. Don't assume older women get poorer results. Good results come come a GOOD surgeon and the health of a patient. Don't put the poor results she encounter on her age.
Vettamonroe were you paid to write this? Why would you ever write such a cruel comment to someone whose breasts have been disfigured?
Why are you defending him? Are you for real?!?!? 2 posts no review & only 2 are defending Horndeski & you aren't even a patient! Karma
@robin8821. Thank you. Funny how all the negative comments on my post regarding this dr get deleted.

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I agree w pina_coladaa.