Hi mommies,
I want to share a personal experience about "best doctors", and hope it is something no one has to go through.
I usually take reviews very seriously, but as I have learned it is also very common for fake reviews being seeded in these forums. So couple of years ago, I did my BA with fillers after breastfeeding 3 kids with a highly-raved doctor whose contact I got from a forum. They started giving me pain and whenever I go back to him, he looked sheepish and dismissed it and did not even examine or look at them, and sent me off for ultrasound to tell me nothing is wrong. I questioned him nicely about what he told me back then to sell me his recommendation, which contradicts what he says now. To me, I know it was my choice so I just needed him to resolve it for me and take it seriously and no time I was rude or screaming at him. So I started going to breast doctors for answers and my attempts to reach out to the doctor/clinic everyone recommended who did my BA to ask how much fillers he did for me, can I get my ultrasounds, and the reason why it contradicted what he said since the breast doctors might need those information.
One day when I asked how many cc of filler I had, the whatsapp of that clinic blocked me. So I tried calling, maybe my number was blacklisted so I never got through to them since then. Breast doctors told me they were unfamiliar with it and didn't know what to do. But first thing they tried to sell me was reconstruction. They were not confident what was wrong, but asked me to consider implants.
An aesthetic doctor was very kind to see me for free to tell me to tell me a few of my options but told me the breast doctors were right to say i might require reconstruction after, but there are other options like fat transfer, so that was when I started reading this forum in the other thread. But there are no people sharing similar problems they had like mine so I still don't know what's wrong with me.
From my other experience, I know the important part is not when you visit them, but after you visit them, so I tried to read for reviews and interviews of doctors to have a feel of their personalities. I just want a responsible one who can be honest and manage expectations. Even if you are business minded, unfriendly, but if you are upfront, good at what you do, GREAT.
Because of this forum I made appointments at a couple of clinics frequently mentioned here. By then I have visited countless doctors hoping they know what they are talking about or doing. I visited SW1 first and Dr Tan saw me, and he had dealt with such cases before and explained to me why it happened. He is upfront, and the discussion was informative, casual and really took the stress off me. There was infection and I had to removed everything, not just the fillers but my breasts too. The infection was dragged on because my previous doctors didn't take me seriously had no idea what to do.
Eventually I evaluated all the doctors I took time to get to know, and went with Dr Tan at SW1. So I have to thank this forum for the contact
I wished I had met Dr Tan first as I realise this experience isn't exclusive to me and perhaps been resolved before it got so bad, and many women had been experiencing the same pain, perhaps reading off the same forum and they are probably going around looking for solutions everywhere like me. The experience also put me off putting anything into my body, but good news is I went on to use fats to reconstruct and the care from Anni, Germaine, Adeline, and Peggy were great something that eased my worry since I never had any surgery before and can now put it behind me.
Since then Dr Tan has handled many more cases like mine, and I believe many were referred from breast doctors as well, and I know from the popularity of the clinic which has since blocked me that there must be many mommies out there who did the same or similar procedure who are struggling to find answers now.
Or perhaps met "best doctors" who ended up hiding from patients when they couldn't take responsibilities for their mistakes or inability to help. I hope this reviews help these mommies somehow. Get the pain check, don't let them tell you it is ok with the pain, because you don't know what is going on in there and risk losing more. But I also know even you get it checked many people don't know what is going on, so look for one who does, I am lucky to find Dr Tan who does have experience in this, but it took me a long time to find him.
I know it is an irony since I am writing a review in a forum, but make appointments to meet these doctors and even their staff make a difference with how they treat patients too instead of trusting reviews in forums too much. Because at the end of the day, like the previous forumer highlighted, they will shun responsibility and cover up without even wanting to look at you to assess you, and might delay further treatment needed.