I’m writing this in the hope that there will never again be a victim like me.
If you’re interested in under-eye surgery or are about to have surgery, please read this once and make a choice you won’t regret.
First of all, the hospital where I had surgery is one I know has a lot of promotional posts on various communities, including Yeouya and Gaasa.
I can’t tell whether a post is a real review, an ad, a broker post, or a post from the clinic itself.
But if you decide on surgery after reading a source-unknown post and then suffer complications, that’s the most unfair part.
Once it’s gone wrong, there’s no going back. That is a fact: no matter what cost you pay, something damaged cannot be restored.
★ As someone who has actually had surgery, I really regret choosing this hospital because I couldn’t see posts like this before.
Don’t regret it like I did. Even if you do regret it, there’s a difference between regretting it with knowledge and regretting it in ignorance. I hope no one else becomes a victim like me.
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I had surgery at xx Plastic Surgery Clinic in Sinsa
I had under-eye fat repositioning + nano fat grafting for dark circles + front cheek fat grafting.
After that, I developed a huge number of complications.
★ Complication symptoms ★
★ Half of my face lost sensation, likely from nerve damage (tingling and numbness in the cheekbone area, nose, under-eye area, and even the lips)
★ Triangular white sclera showing below the iris (the under-eye area is fixed and won’t rise, so my eyes look uneven, and when I smile one eye does not fully close)
★ Dark circles (they got even worse; people around me immediately say, “Why are your dark circles so bad?”)
★ The aegyo-sal boundary disappeared / signs of lower eyelid entropion also appeared
* They even discarded the before/after photos from the surgery and wouldn’t let me check them. (Is this really a professional clinic?)
During consultation, they said it was professional and that there were people lined up to get surgery without even seeing the director. Don’t trust the consultant’s words 100%..
That’s why I think you need to be careful about being swayed by whatever catches your eye.
After these complications appeared, I requested a follow-up with the director, but they wouldn’t arrange one.
(It’s a long story, so I’ll just write the facts.) They only told me to wait, kept saying it had to be observed over time, and tried to soothe me and dodge the issue, but they still didn’t arrange a follow-up with the director.
So I was finally able to see the director for a follow-up after 8 to 9 months.
But the answers I got during that follow-up were so absurd to me personally that I couldn’t understand them.
When I asked again to come back with a guardian because I couldn’t understand it,
★ they confidently gave false and misleading information, saying that seeing a follow-up with a guardian would violate the Medical Services Act.. I was so dumbfounded that I asked several times.
The coordinator team and the consultant both gave the same false explanation. (I have phone and KakaoTalk evidence.)
When I said let’s just do a full refund, have the staff who gave false guidance apologize, and finish this,
they said they would process only a half refund, and when I asked for an apology from the staff who gave false guidance, they said the staff were young and the guidance was insufficient. If that happened, it would create a problem with personnel management. (Meaning they were going to quit?)
So I wrapped it up by telling them not to contact me anymore about future treatment, aftercare, revision surgery, refunds, and so on.
Then someone called me under an alias, claiming to be the general manager, someone I had never seen at the clinic. It was the first time I had seen a plastic surgery clinic use an alias.
In any case, the result of the surgery aside, if I had known the aftercare would be like this, I would never have had the surgery.
And they said follow-up with the director isn’t normally provided later on.....without any explanation before surgery.. I hope everyone knows exactly what they’re getting into before deciding on surgery.
★★★ When you get a consultation, ask about everything and even record it if you can..
As someone who is suffering from complications, I’ll say just one thing.
"Complication review" posts are often temporarily hidden, so they’re hard for consumers to actually see, which makes it difficult to make the right choice.
Across all kinds of apps and communities, most of what gets posted are only successful cases.
※ Recommended posts, review posts, and even question posts can also be promotional posts written by hospitals, and there are broker recommendations too.
★ Think about it. There are no patients who had successful surgery and then keep managing the post, writing reviews and comments.
But many people decide to have surgery after looking at posts whose source they can’t verify... Please be careful and look into everything thoroughly.
Examples)
- A friend had it and it turned out well. My acquaintance had it.
- They’re an expert in revision surgery, they’re really good at revision surgery.
- Is this place good for surgery? > Yeah, it’s good there. I had it, I did too, etc.
- Anyone know any info~ etc > This place is good, you know.
- This and that are good, so the consultation was satisfying, the consultation here was good, etc.
There are also many posts that are hard to distinguish like this, so just use them as references...
If you’re someone who always gets cosmetic surgery, please research everything, think a hundred times, and be careful.
If you look at the complications tab on Babitalk and the complication tab on this community and read the "real reviews," it might help. (I understand there are a lot of promotional posts in community review posts, recommendation posts, and question posts too... please keep that in mind.)
I hope you recognize the risks of surgery to some extent and make a careful decision. I’m writing this to share information in the hope that no one makes the same mistake as I did.
What’s already damaged can never be reversed. The hospital won’t take responsibility either, and that’s a fact.
*This post was written based on the rights of consumers guaranteed by our Constitution and the Framework Act on Consumers, and I state that it has no purpose of slandering the above medical institution beyond sharing information and helping other patients.