Scars, Dents and Redness Left from Laser Surgery Months & Even Yrs Later - Tampa, FL

My pores looked bigger & I got large indentations too. Dents, scars, pock marks too. The fat smoothed out my dent to where I'm not as self conscience about it but i still have flat indented scars & some pits that the fat couldn't help nor the lift. Going back to see him on the 23rd to see what he thinks can help at this point. If he can fill out some of the scars with filler that would be nice & I'd love to get my pock marks taken care of but it seems the only way to do that is a tca cross or a subcision to bring them up to make it look more level. Going to stick with needling til i find out more. So many times i feel like putting a needle under the scar & lifting it up myself, but i heard your supposed to get a filler under it to keep it up so it doesn't tether down again. I also have a suction machine that's supposed to help too if i get it done. I've been trying the suction every once in a while after I needle on the pock marks. I'll let ya know after I see my Dr what he says is the next thing to do for my skin. Still like the FT & lift.

Hi Sats. Which Dr in Tampa did your facial fat transfer if you don't mind my asking?

I went to a doctor in Philly. I live in both places. His name was Dr Brandow on the main line. Very nice & caring doctor.

The doctor in Tampa was the one who messed me up with the laser. I can't believe what that man did to my life.

That is so terrible that these Drs lie about what they can do. I hope it all works out for you and that is for getting back to me so quickly.

Most lie if they have a laser machine as far as I'm concerned. they have to pay for it. I went back to a few who used to use laser but stopped. They said people weren't happy with their results and we're getting hurt. My derm & her husband who is a PS said they will never use lasers or sculptra. He takes a lot of Sculptra out of people when it turns into a rock type substance on some. If I only knew then what I know now. "Sticking" to needling

Hey Mely, I too have scars at the end of my eyes. I had gone for a lifestyle lift when i was 46, at that time the doctor who was a women said she thought i should take the fat pad out at the same time because when i get allergies my eyes swell up and look a bit baggy so I said ok. I was awake for the lift and eyes. After surgery the lines under my eyes never closed up right on the corners so I too have scars there. With all the other scars i have I forgot about them. My face is full of scars. Now i have scars that are still healing from the FL on my temples. I thought he was going to put them in my sideburns but he said he puts them at the temples because he said the hairline would look weird if he put them in there. So now i have more scars to worry about. I'm 60 now so I too have had them for quite awhile. I just feel like my little face is full of scars. Acne, operations. resurfacing all left their mark on me. I thought by this time with all the things i had to do I would look ok by now. I get very bad panic attacks when i have to go out. Even tho the eye scars bother me I learned to live with that but the cheek scars are a whole different story because my face is so small and thin every scar shows. I'm still swollen from the surgery & I still see the dent but I'm hoping after the swelling goes down it will look better. I can see the FL made an improvement but time will tell. He's also going to give me a vile of juve for the spots i don't like in July. Nothing gets rid of scars as far as i can tell. I heard co2 helps some but i think the only ones who really benefit from that are people with dark spots and I'm so tired of lasers and all the down time. I want to enjoy my life. It hurt when my son said to his wife that i used to be fun and out going. I don't want them to remember me being a hermit so I have to learn to deal with the hand i was dealt. All this for a few scars i wanted gone that i would gladly take back today. Thank you for your well wishes. I'll post in a month if i think the fat transfer was worth it . Have to wait for the swelling to go down a bit.

Awe;( I'm a hermit too. I feel ur pain. Wish u this surgery helps u very muccccchhhh! So u can enjoy life my dear. I'm so sorrryyyy, for all that u went thru. My comments was because in the one partial picture u post ur skin looks good to me.

I think you look good. From the one photo I saw. Texture of your skin looks good in the photo. I see the dent you have and I understand a need to get rid of them. Honestly you look very pretty. I had no idea of your age. Funny I have a few of those dents too but I am worry more about my scratches and burned texture. My open pores by my nose. I had no intention of getting facelift ever until I got the works with laser and some microderm. My face was ruined because of two dents on my check which I should have left alone. Sorry now. Still contemplating see another derm of surgeon to help. Glycolic acid or tca peels or lifts. Sounds like fat transfer are not viable option to my crinkled skin.

Sats

Thanks Jen, After everything i did I hope i look a bit younger than before. When i see myself in my car window when i'm opening my door or when I'm in a dressing room i would run out of the store having a panic attack. I would come home shaking. I have large pores on my nose & around it but benefits pore professional helps a lot with the pores looking large.. That's just the one side of my face, the other has a huge scar around the 3 scars I wanted him to work on. I wasn't thinking of a face lift at all til all this happen but with the size of the dents I had to. I would have to buy at least 2 viles each time & they still showed so pulling my skin had to be done & putting fat in. I still have shallow scars & pock marks & some lines that fat can't help. I had a little subcision in one & he put some filler under, I had filler there before but it would always look like a donut. Filer would go around the scar instead of lifting it up but he did a better job then the others doing it this time with the subcistion. I see him again on the 23rd to talk about my skin. But as far as texture i think the needling helped I had creepy skin too from all the lasers trying to fix it, bought so many creams & oils took a million vites for skin. Exfoliated every few days & needled with a 1.0 & 1.5 every month that seemed to help I just did a light glycolic acid peel too. I'll see what he says what's next when i go. I too would gladly take back what I had before, i lost over 7 yrs of my lif so far & still need help but at least it's better than what i started out with. II wish i had pictures of me back then and i should have tracked it with photos but when i did take photos of it close up it made me sick so I deleted them.

Well I'm still healing. I still feel a hard feeling by my ears & I thought I was still puffy on the top of my one cheek that makes my eye look swollen. But today I realized it's under the puffy part that needs more fat or filler to make my cheek level with the puffy part, then it would look the same as the other eye.. So glad I have an appt with him and he's giving me a vile of juve this Thursday. I look younger but still have the scars so I'll have him put some filler there too. So I'm in limbo til then. I forgot i have the appt this week & did a tca peel today. I hope I' not all flaky when I go. Thanks so much for asking. I'll let ya know if the filler helps. I also have new scars were he cut me by my temple & a stitch that's supposed to dissolve showing up like a cyst. I hope he can fix that too. He said the new scars should go away by 6 mons. Geez, if it's not one thing it's another.

Oh you take care of yourself & give yourself time to heal well k - sure your take will take good care of you :-)

Thank you so much for giving some hope for those who suffered from these lasers. I myself am also enduring the wrath that it leaves behind. I think I will probably have to do more invasive steps to fix the bad holes left in my skin and indentions. It is debilitating to try and see people when you know the first thing they notice is your face! Hope you have a great recovery and thank you for sharing.

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