I wanna talk about filler.
About 6 years ago, I got under eye filler to help my appearance. I’ve hard serious dark circles forever, and after reading online, I gathered that it was genetic and that there was nothing I could do to fix it - besides under eye filler.
I now know, this couldn’t be further from the truth. I was so misguided at the time, very unhealthy and unhappy, this was before I ever found Peat.
Anyway, I got the procedure done pretty easily. They used Juvederm, which is a hyaluronic acid-based filler. I was told it was the most mild option and that it would fully dissolve on its own as our bodies break it down. This already exists in our bodies - how bad could it be?
Right after injecting me, I got a rapid heart rate and overheating/fever situation, and I almost passed out. I thought nothing of it at the time, but that should’ve been my first clue that this situation was not great.
Anyway, many years later, I’ve lost and regained health. Now that I’ve been losing weight, and my figure is becoming tighter and back to what it was growing up, my face has been slimming out too. I’ve been trying to figure out why I have these chubby cheeks, and I kept telling myself I just was overweight and that part of the weight hasn’t come off yet.
But I’m pretty sure now that’s not true. I have this weird, uncanny valley look to my cheeks (I think the filler sunk down a little from my under eyes) and it looks puffy and especially misshapen/lumpy when I smile, kind of ruining it. This looks extra strange on someone who’s always had extremely sharp / defined features.
Luckily for me, I don’t look like Zac efron or Matt Gaetz, as I only had .25-.5 of a filler tube in my face. But it’s still enough to bother me and want my good looks back.
I’ve been looking into this as much as I can. Theres a lot of gaslighting with this cosmetics stuff but take it from me, IT DOES NOT DISSOLVE! It’s been 6 years for me and most information said online it was to be gone in 2.
I really just want this shit out of my face, so I started researching what I do. Turns out the whole plastic surgery/ filler industry have started dissolving fillers with something called hyaluronidase, with concerns over it dissolving our own tissue too. There’s even a Facebook group with horror stories. But it seems some have had good experiences with reducing the lumpy puffiness left over from fillers. I haven’t yet decided if it’s another scheme to make this beauty industry cyclical, or if it honestly just gets rid of the old filler, as some have said and have actually shown.
After going through this and now setting out on trying to fix it, I don’t think the risk outweighs the reward. I got the smallest amount of the safest filler, and I’m trying to overcome that mistake 6 years later.
If there was a natural or supplemental method to help dissolve or metabolize this stuff, I’d love to know about it and look into it. I want my beautiful defined bone structure back, is there a safe way to do that?