To be clear, I would argue that surgery is the last option for lumps...but it is not "crazy talk" or out of the question. Some understanding of cell biology & the inflammatory response is required, which I have discussed in the "
Nodule info thread".
In your case, you likely created some kind of local inflammation that just felt hard from the over aggressive pumping. Swelling often feels hard. People who have open rhinoplasty will always have hard nasal tips for up to a year. Nothing was put in the tip (maybe some
Sutures) but it will feel rock hard until time goes by. That doesn't mean you have surgery and cut off the tip of your nose. They used to say NO pumping altogether (this changed apparently). Sizemic and other board members advised against pumping for many years for various reasons like you described.
In my case, my lumps got harder as time went on (it's over a year post now) and previously soft areas also began hardening. There's no predictable way that this issue will progress, but maybe it will soften if you're lucky. In fact, a
Nodule I had at R1 did dissipate completely around 8 weeks post. That's why I have waited a year before further surgery. I have done everything after my first
Nodule Removal was so badly botched, but nothing helped. Most of it is documented on here. You may not have read the posts where I've described that I work in healthcare with other MDs and PhDs and that's how I have photos of my pathology slides and other information as well as such immediate access to
Kenalog, 5fu,
Radiesse (for camouflage), and other things.
So, while it is true that you can wait out inflammation - and I was hoping the hardness would subside in the last year, your body can just as easily have a chronic inflammatory response OR just wall it off entirely with fibroblasts that will never soften because they are surrounding a foreign body that they won't let go of. So it's like scar tissue around a clump of plexiglass (
PMMA). This happens in the face too. It is a known complication of
PMMA, regardless of brand. In my case, as you can see in the slides I posted, there was 90%
PMMA hardened in several areas on a microscropic level. No amount of heating pads, DMSO,
Kenalog, 5-fu, pumping, traction, or needling (all tried, by the way) for months... would help. It just wasn't enough. This is a case by case issue. There was a case on the TV show "Botched" where they removed product like this with a bone saw (combined with human collagen, some of which calcified). Heating pads and massages don't help that. A scalpel didn't even help - they needed a power tool.
I had a very successful
Nodule Removal in the beginning. What turned into a shit show was that the other
Nodule that was removed never healed for 2 months...which then required surgery...which then caused another area to open o nthe same side...which required more surgery...which made my right scrotum go half way up my shaft. I am over 1 year from r3 and the hard lumps I had at day 10 are the same I have now, except they are harder.
Of course - maybe if the "rock stars" wade and Dr. C ever returned my emails or bothered to respond to me when I had complications, I wouldn't be in this situation and could have had a better resolution. When they wouldn't reply, I made an appointment - but then wade texted me not to come. No reason. Just "we cancelled your appointment. don't book your flight" ... I can post the text. Rock stars. He reads all my posts, so I am posting this to see if he'll come out of hiding and actually let me know why the fuck they treated me that way and basically fucked up my life - because to this day I still do not even have an answer. Even more crazy is the fact that there was a board member there on the SAME day who also had lumps and nodules - and they let him come back for
Kenalog on day 10. These were the same guys who came to my hotel room at 8 PM after Round 1 when I had issues. They know something went wrong in R3, but I will never know what it was.
Topic Author
