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Today's post is on the crucial importance of postop steroids. It does not matter where in the world you get a facelift if you do not take steroids immediately postop, it may fail anytime between 6 weeks and 6 months. Swelling=sagging.
100% of surgeons in Korea do not give steroids after a facelift. Only 1 breast surgeon in Korea gives steroids after facial fat graft.
98% of UK surgeons do not give steroids. Only Dr Andrea Marando gives postop steroids on request and Dr Dominic Bray gives steroids but at too small a dose to be effective in my opinion.
50% of US surgeons do not give steroids. But the top facelift surgeons Dr Andrew Jacono, Dr Amir Karam, and Dr Mike Nayak do give postop steroids.
100% of Turkish surgeons do not give steroids.
This is a painful reminder of what happens when one does not take postop steroids after any facial procedure that causes profound swelling. Trigger warning. This is very sad and deeply emotional.
One younger British lady with acne scars had profound facial swelling following aggressive Taylor liberator subcision which set her back £1000s. She trusted a doctor who had a prior GMC warning and now has an interim order warning.This then deswelled and left her with severe facial laxity and premature aging. All she wanted was treatment for her acne scars but ended up looking decades older.
She then paid a London facelift surgeon claiming to be the leading surgeon in deep plane face and neck lifts £15,000. She had this operation in a clinic in Chelsea so not a proper hospital with hospital beds. Again she got no postop steroids and had profound swelling then laxity when her face fully deswelled. The surgeon refunded her 50% after much to and fro correspondence.
She next flew to Turkey as revision DP face and neck lift with lower bleph, (and was upsold a transtemporal midface lift too) with 2 nights in hospital and 9 in a hotel was advertised at £6500. They gave her no steroids. She brought prednisolone with her but did not take any before or after her 12-14 hour op. She suffered extreme facial and neck swelling with difficulty breathing and is in hospital a 3rd night in a row. I am praying she will finally start the prednisolone tablets as she has only trusted her male doctors/surgeons thus far who have taken several £1000s from her and made her suffer enormously each time.
@MissOrange is the postop steroids only for facelift or also need for any other PS , like lipo, eye ….
Hi @weewee it is for procedures that could result in severe swelling, ie facial fat graft and facelifts. I suppose if the eyelid surgeon caused extreme swelling resulting in closed eyes and sausage lids from too rough skin and tissue handling, then postop pred would help here too.
Hi @rosie8800 I just peaked at his IG. The ladies all still have nasolabial folds in their afters. Nope.
The best example of repeated facelifts without postop steroids is 45 yo celebrity Katie Price. In 2017 she underwent her first facelift in London at age 38. In May 2019 she had her 2nd facelift in Turkey and her 3rd in August 2019 due to a complication with the 2nd. In July/Aug 2021 she underwent her 4th facelift in Turkey. Here is her 4th facelift b&a at 2.5Y post, ie 2 days ago.
What are the odds she will fly back to Dr Kerim at the Comfort Zone Clinic in Istanbul for her 5th? Please take postop steroids to avoid the repetitive cycle of swelling, deswelling and laxity with each successive facelift. The overpulled cat's eye alien look facelift does NOT hold in the long run as it is still swollen and when the face deswells there will be excess skin. This may also explain why some Korean celebs are on their umpteenth facelift. No facelift without postop steroids!
What are the odds she will fly back to Dr Kerim at the Comfort Zone Clinic in Istanbul for her 5th? Please take postop steroids to avoid the repetitive cycle of swelling, deswelling and laxity with each successive facelift. The overpulled cat's eye alien look facelift does NOT hold in the long run as it is still swollen and when the face deswells there will be excess skin. This may also explain why some Korean celebs are on their umpteenth facelift. No facelift without postop steroids!
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Here are my 2Y1M postop pics. My hair is growing much longer! The two things I did was stop getting salon bleached hair highlights (used to get 2-3x a year) and have been applying 5% minoxidil foam to my pfizer induced AA bald spot. This explains why my hair is more brown than blonde as the bleached hair is fading. My cheeks look like I had zygoma reduction, but all I did was lose weight to 95 lbs on a no meat, no eggs, no dairy whole food plant diet. I get my protein from salmon and avocados.
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Which Dr Kerim? Poor Katie Price!! I've been googling a MACs lift and it seems like maybe I should start with that ..
Hi @6098Sophia, looks like Dr Kerim Unal. Yes best to start with a mini lift or smas but never a deep plane.
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Thanks Miss Orange! I’m so surprised that they don’t do fat grafting to the hands more often in Korea since hands really need to match the face, as does the neck of course. I know in a lot of Asian countries, many women wear long gloves to protect their hands and arms from the sun while driving so maybe their hands don’t age as fast. have you had fat grafting to the hands yet? I’ve heard it doesn’t remove the wrinkles but more the spidery veins.
Hi @Jukebe, no I don’t need fat graft to my hands. I rarely go out in what little sun the UK gets. Looks like even Turkey now offers fat graft to the hands! Maybe Korea offers it too. It is not something I have needed to research yet.
2 weeks vs 2 years post my £3495 VR smas facelift with steroids. Amazing hold! No swelling = no sagging.
Turkish Dr Mehmet Comert has lost no time in creating a reel on the British lady and omitted she had prolonged GA surgery from 1 pm to 4 am including time in recovery, had a medical emergency requiring IV prednisolone, received antipsychotics, had difficulty breathing, had a prolonged stay in hospital and is extremely swollen.
This is infuriating! He seemed so nice when I consulted with him and told me I didn't need anything...I appreciated his honesty but....yikes! That poor woman
This is a quotation received 30 November from Dr Andrea Marando's Star Clinic in Manchester. He is the only British surgeon who prescribes postop steroids upon request and performs a lateral smasectomy.
If cost is an issue, try Dr Chris West at Coppergate Clinic for £5495 for the VR vertical facelift I had when it was £3495 but source your own steroids.
Remember vertical facelifts, VR macs or smas are more aesthetically pleasing than deep plane or cats eye Turkish facelifts in my opinion.
If cost is an issue, try Dr Chris West at Coppergate Clinic for £5495 for the VR vertical facelift I had when it was £3495 but source your own steroids.
Remember vertical facelifts, VR macs or smas are more aesthetically pleasing than deep plane or cats eye Turkish facelifts in my opinion.
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