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Things are NOT Looking Better - This Op Has Basically Destroyed My Life
I thought everything had gone fine, that the revision was a success, as per my photos of March earlier this year. Well I was wrong. Within a few months of taking off the compression garment and that godawful policeman foam vest, the lumps and bumps in my stomach were just indescribable. But worst of all, was the way my stomach was expanding. Hugely. From what I thought was a nice slim, flat stomach and smaller waist, my stomach expanded into this monstruous vile abdomen, , no waist at all, and lumps and bumps and creases on both stomach and back area.
This huge swelling did not go down by very much at all. My stomach still looks like someone who's ingested a pile of rocks, and with such a thin layer of fat that you can see exactly what I've eaten. It is no longer the smooth stomach it was immediatley after the revision, when I first took the compression garment off, no, it turned into a digusting vile huge mass of lumps bumps and crevices, uneven skin, uneven layers of fat, just really repulsive to look at and even to touch, it feels revolting, it is hard as a rock.
i was not going to 'out' this surgeon who ruined me until I got the final results of his revision operation, but now the results are in, since it has been 10 months, I can safely say that both operations were a dismal failure and have left me a wreck; I have been placed under a Mental Health Team because I was suicidal and my only aim in life was to find the most foolproof way to kill myself. This was not just because of the operations, I had also some very tough things happening with my parents being taken very ill, and also lost my very best friend of 12 years - but the operation impacted on this depression most of all, as I was left destitute, with no one even able to give me a hand, and from earning a decent living, I was reduced to food stamps.
I could not even get for example, a desk job, or anything else, but that was not possible because ever since the revision I have felt constantly ill, mainly the stomach cramps and this feeling that I am pregnant - but with a whole pile of rocks in my abdomen. I don't ever look at myself in the mirror anymore - I make myself feel sick. I also often get this feeling that I have a fever and am burning all over - this can last for hours or an entire evening. Never had it before the operation. And the feeling of heaviness and weakness have virtually left me unable to leave my bed for over a year.
I suggest you choose your Dr very very carefully if you're considering this procedure. And, as I mentioned in my last entry, don't do it under local anaesthetic (this surgeon's claim about it being possible under local was a lie in my case, as I felt almost the entire operation whilst it was being done - literally felt like I was being stabbed for approx 6 hours.
If this Dr. would accept some responsibilty and at least give me my money back for having failed to deliver the results he'd promised (a flat stomach and small waist) I would not be half as aggrieved by the whole thing. But throughout my meeting after Operation No. 1 with him and the rest of the clinic's staff, he remained impassive and refused to even answer my question as to why on earth he had waited 8 days before taking a look at my seroma, - which resulted in it becoming so big I could barely lift myself off the bed. Really showed no respect for my feelings, and accepted no responsbility for my lack of income - none whatsoever. So now, having my final results, I feel it is time I can name him and I am doing this to ensure that whoever is considering any kind of procedure, with his doctor, to think twice about it, and read my review thoroughly so they can have an informed opinion before they put their lives in his hands - which is what I did, and lived to regret it ever since.
The first operation was in May 2013, so this torture and pain and depression has been going on for well over a year. It's disgusting that this surgeon will not even show the slightest compassion or accept any responsibilty in his procedures having come out so badly. He has basically washed his hands of it.
He is aware that I am suing him and I hope I win the case, as due to his attitude during all this pain I have been through, he fully deserves it.
His name is Dr Edwin Anthony and he works at both MediSpa in Kensington, and at The Private Clinic in Harley Street.
It was clear by month 5 that the revision had not been a success, but all he did was to keep telling me to be patient, that my stomach was still 'settling down'. Nonsense. In May/June my results were just as disgusting.
I have many internal & external problems due to this lipo, I'll list just a number of them:
Stomach full of lumps and bumps.
Rippling of skin in certain areas, very ugly
Massively protruding areas, especially after having eaten, regardless of how much I ate.
Severe pain whenever I eat, so I have had to subsist on a liquid diet for several months, as even the smallest morsel of food will cause my stomach internal pain, and later, I will pay for having eaten anything, as for hours later, it will feel like I have rocks trying to push themselves through the skin of my abdomen. It is a horrible, painful, and disgusting feeling I would nto wish on anyone. So I am either in suffering from hunger pangs, but unable to eat as the result is just pain, or having given into the hunger pangs, feel like something my internal organs are going to burst straight through my stomach.
It's now October, and my stomach has not changed at all, neither aesthetically, nor the internal problems affecting digestion, etc. Bowel movements have been problem (difficult and/or painful) even now, 10 months on since the revision operation and let's just say my sex life has become non existent as I am so ashamed at how disfigured and disgusting my stomach looks and how any man will find it repulsive to look at.
I have been in the process of suing this surgeon, but it takes time. He has ruined my life in many ways. I work in the adult industry. My job depended on my looks and having now had my stomach destroyed, I have lost all my income completely, and have not been able to work for year, save for the very rare occasions when the employer has been OK with me covering up my stomach area with a piece of clothing, etc. but that, as I say is rare and once a photographer or director knows you have a physical deformity they will not touch you with a barge pole.
I have lost all hope of ever having a relationship or even children, as no man would want to wake up every morning to something so repulsive, and why choose a deformed woman over one who has a body that looks normal.
The whole thing has been devastating, especially the loss of income - I have had periods where I did not even have enough money for toilet paper and I have lost all self esteem.
I will see if I can find the latest photos that I took of myself, to show you the disaster this man caused. He is not a proper surgeon. He is a cosmetic surgeon, not plastic. Big difference. A mistake I will regret for as long as I live.
This huge swelling did not go down by very much at all. My stomach still looks like someone who's ingested a pile of rocks, and with such a thin layer of fat that you can see exactly what I've eaten. It is no longer the smooth stomach it was immediatley after the revision, when I first took the compression garment off, no, it turned into a digusting vile huge mass of lumps bumps and crevices, uneven skin, uneven layers of fat, just really repulsive to look at and even to touch, it feels revolting, it is hard as a rock.
i was not going to 'out' this surgeon who ruined me until I got the final results of his revision operation, but now the results are in, since it has been 10 months, I can safely say that both operations were a dismal failure and have left me a wreck; I have been placed under a Mental Health Team because I was suicidal and my only aim in life was to find the most foolproof way to kill myself. This was not just because of the operations, I had also some very tough things happening with my parents being taken very ill, and also lost my very best friend of 12 years - but the operation impacted on this depression most of all, as I was left destitute, with no one even able to give me a hand, and from earning a decent living, I was reduced to food stamps.
I could not even get for example, a desk job, or anything else, but that was not possible because ever since the revision I have felt constantly ill, mainly the stomach cramps and this feeling that I am pregnant - but with a whole pile of rocks in my abdomen. I don't ever look at myself in the mirror anymore - I make myself feel sick. I also often get this feeling that I have a fever and am burning all over - this can last for hours or an entire evening. Never had it before the operation. And the feeling of heaviness and weakness have virtually left me unable to leave my bed for over a year.
I suggest you choose your Dr very very carefully if you're considering this procedure. And, as I mentioned in my last entry, don't do it under local anaesthetic (this surgeon's claim about it being possible under local was a lie in my case, as I felt almost the entire operation whilst it was being done - literally felt like I was being stabbed for approx 6 hours.
If this Dr. would accept some responsibilty and at least give me my money back for having failed to deliver the results he'd promised (a flat stomach and small waist) I would not be half as aggrieved by the whole thing. But throughout my meeting after Operation No. 1 with him and the rest of the clinic's staff, he remained impassive and refused to even answer my question as to why on earth he had waited 8 days before taking a look at my seroma, - which resulted in it becoming so big I could barely lift myself off the bed. Really showed no respect for my feelings, and accepted no responsbility for my lack of income - none whatsoever. So now, having my final results, I feel it is time I can name him and I am doing this to ensure that whoever is considering any kind of procedure, with his doctor, to think twice about it, and read my review thoroughly so they can have an informed opinion before they put their lives in his hands - which is what I did, and lived to regret it ever since.
The first operation was in May 2013, so this torture and pain and depression has been going on for well over a year. It's disgusting that this surgeon will not even show the slightest compassion or accept any responsibilty in his procedures having come out so badly. He has basically washed his hands of it.
He is aware that I am suing him and I hope I win the case, as due to his attitude during all this pain I have been through, he fully deserves it.
His name is Dr Edwin Anthony and he works at both MediSpa in Kensington, and at The Private Clinic in Harley Street.
It was clear by month 5 that the revision had not been a success, but all he did was to keep telling me to be patient, that my stomach was still 'settling down'. Nonsense. In May/June my results were just as disgusting.
I have many internal & external problems due to this lipo, I'll list just a number of them:
Stomach full of lumps and bumps.
Rippling of skin in certain areas, very ugly
Massively protruding areas, especially after having eaten, regardless of how much I ate.
Severe pain whenever I eat, so I have had to subsist on a liquid diet for several months, as even the smallest morsel of food will cause my stomach internal pain, and later, I will pay for having eaten anything, as for hours later, it will feel like I have rocks trying to push themselves through the skin of my abdomen. It is a horrible, painful, and disgusting feeling I would nto wish on anyone. So I am either in suffering from hunger pangs, but unable to eat as the result is just pain, or having given into the hunger pangs, feel like something my internal organs are going to burst straight through my stomach.
It's now October, and my stomach has not changed at all, neither aesthetically, nor the internal problems affecting digestion, etc. Bowel movements have been problem (difficult and/or painful) even now, 10 months on since the revision operation and let's just say my sex life has become non existent as I am so ashamed at how disfigured and disgusting my stomach looks and how any man will find it repulsive to look at.
I have been in the process of suing this surgeon, but it takes time. He has ruined my life in many ways. I work in the adult industry. My job depended on my looks and having now had my stomach destroyed, I have lost all my income completely, and have not been able to work for year, save for the very rare occasions when the employer has been OK with me covering up my stomach area with a piece of clothing, etc. but that, as I say is rare and once a photographer or director knows you have a physical deformity they will not touch you with a barge pole.
I have lost all hope of ever having a relationship or even children, as no man would want to wake up every morning to something so repulsive, and why choose a deformed woman over one who has a body that looks normal.
The whole thing has been devastating, especially the loss of income - I have had periods where I did not even have enough money for toilet paper and I have lost all self esteem.
I will see if I can find the latest photos that I took of myself, to show you the disaster this man caused. He is not a proper surgeon. He is a cosmetic surgeon, not plastic. Big difference. A mistake I will regret for as long as I live.
Things Are Looking Better
I guess my surgeon was right - this time around. Things are improving.
Thank goodness.
Of course I didn't believe him initially, because after the first operation he kept saying things would improve and they never did.
Now I kind of realise I'm dealing with 2 different situations, and my advice is Don't do this under local
- especially if you haven't got a really huge amount of fat to remove, and if you are doing vaser on more than 2 areas.
Thank goodness.
Of course I didn't believe him initially, because after the first operation he kept saying things would improve and they never did.
Now I kind of realise I'm dealing with 2 different situations, and my advice is Don't do this under local
- especially if you haven't got a really huge amount of fat to remove, and if you are doing vaser on more than 2 areas.
This Is What My Stomach Looks Like Now
Just a note to say that I haven't put on any weight - even though my stomach looks enormous.
Straight after the operation I was 3 kgs heavier due to all the tumescent liquid & other stuff they pump into you; after I lost that weight and the swelling went down, I lost another 2 kilos & since then have remained stable.
Basically since removing the compression garment (I wore it for about 6 weeks - almost 2 months) my stomach and waist expanded and then the lumps and bumps began appearing and the ridges, and it just looks like it's a great big deflated great ugly balloon. Again. So much for this being 'fixable' according to my surgeon and the clinic manager.
Straight after the operation I was 3 kgs heavier due to all the tumescent liquid & other stuff they pump into you; after I lost that weight and the swelling went down, I lost another 2 kilos & since then have remained stable.
Basically since removing the compression garment (I wore it for about 6 weeks - almost 2 months) my stomach and waist expanded and then the lumps and bumps began appearing and the ridges, and it just looks like it's a great big deflated great ugly balloon. Again. So much for this being 'fixable' according to my surgeon and the clinic manager.
Provider Review
Dr Edwin Anthony
I would not recommend this Doctor - my review speaks for itself. I had two Vaser Lipo operations and the first was a total failure, and I was offered a revision for free, but this also failed miserably. To say this Dr has ruined my life is an understatement, as he has left me disfigured and the results have impacted negatively on my career, and relationships and my mental health and left me with no self esteem left at all. Please note: the rating for 'Aftercare' relates to the doctor; ;the staff at Medispa were excellent and very professional and provided excellent after care. The Follow-up from the Doctor, is rated low, as again, it does not relate to the clinic but to the surgeon - I basically saw him a handful of times after my first operation, despite his knowing that I was having severe problems during my operation recovery (e.g. seroma, excessive abdominal swelling from day one due to him having left a heap of residual fat which then had to be removed during the Revision Operation). This man tries to lay on the charm very thick, and appears to be overwhelmingly confident, to the point where it looks absolutely false and actually gives the opposite impression, or that he is just incredibly arrogant and self centred). He is very vague in answering when cornered about anything negative and will often just smile instead of answering a difficult question (such as why my seroma was not examined or drained the same day it was diagnosed by the nurse, and why did it sometimes take him an entire week to call/email me back when I was evidently having severe problems). I would give this Dr a wide berth. He works at both MediSpa South Kensington branch (Kensington Church Street), and The Private Clinic at 98 Harley Street but I believe he also practises in other areas outside London, so I would just ask people to be on their guard if they come across him.