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I have bags under my eyes and was just not ready to have surgery done yet. So I went to a plastic surgeon to find out what could be done without surgery. He then told me Juvederm injected in the lower eyelid would get rid of the bags completely because he would fill in the the areas around the bags so it would be all smoothed out.
Boy was he wrong!!! It looked ok the first day but then the Juvederm "relocated" all the way from the inner corner or my eyes to past the other corner.
Now instead of just having little bags under one side of each eye I have HUGE ones ALL the way under my eyes !! Please look at my pics and do not have this procedure done under your eyes.
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10/5/08
Juvederm under the eyes is very tricky. I have heard that it either works well or it works horribly...there is no in between, and the person that is doing the injections, must really know what they are doing. I myself, would opt for another treatment of under eye bags and not go with the Juvederm, even though I would recommend it for around the mouth. I have fantastic results with Juvederm and my nasolabial folds...
10/9/08
I am so sorry about the results from the juverderm by your eyes,isn't there a injection that takes the juverderm away?? I forgot the name of it but I di believe it works.
I wish you well*
10/10/08
Hyaluronidase, trading names "Vitrase" and "Widase"
HTH
10/11/08
Thank you Ladies for your help and support. Just hope to have saved someone else from making the same mistake I`ve made.... Unfortunaltely, I am unable to take off of work right now to have the Hyaluronidase injection done so I guess I`ll have to look like that for a while. Does anyone know of a non surgical treatment for eye bags? I`ve heard of Ultrasonic or Microcurrent devices that are suppose to help. Has anyone had experience using those and do they work?
Again, thank you for your help!!!
10/11/08
hi again, bags under the eyes is just fattty tissue, the ultrsonic devices may help somewhat but short of having that fat removed in that area you may be disapointed & spend more money on something that will probably not last long?? I guess it would not hurt to try these things if you don't want the surgery right now*
JoJo
11/6/08
I know how you feel!
11/6/08
You can have it removed by a doctor (hopefully a different one!) using 18G needle, pricking the skin and squeezing it out.
Sound dramatic but it works.You will have a week or 2 of bruising but it's better than waiting up to 6 months for it to resolve, since it is a relatively immobile area - compared to NLF or lips.
Dissolving doesn't always render best results.
11/8/08
the second doctor I went to said he could not do anything because he did not know exactly where it was placed!