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A plastic surgeon today told me he thought this was scarring, and that fillers would not help because its bound down. Not sure I believe him, he went straight for the laser sell. I still called my derm about the saline injections, hopefully she will call back. And I have plenty of scars all over my cheeks, as well as a huge sebaceous cyst my old derm misdiagnosed as acne and then called it a keloid scar, which I can have removed in a few months apparently. I've been through a hellish year and this just tops it off with the cherry.
I would jump on the saline injection bandwagon as quick as possible. Im really sorry you are going through this but please heed my advice, toughen up now and get to the bottom of this. No matter what except nothing except your skin reverting back to a position where you are comfortable. Theyre are ways to battle this. Ive been in your position and I wish I hadnt sulked about it and done something to fix it sooner. I would not go the excision route yet. I would explore saline injections or collagen injections first. Just me. Always go least invasive to most invasive.
Did you have atrophy or did you experience something else? I just had another freakout looking in the mirror. He disfigured me, and I'm afraid this isn't going to stop.
You are not disfigured. A simple restylane injection would work woners. Just sop bieng so negative if you can and put all that energy into a solution. Because anything other that fixing it is a waste of time. Ive had cortisone injection atrophy before. But ive also had scarring.
Well it seems were in a relatively similiar situation. I just had subcision for bound down scars a couple weeks ago. I have had some improvement and im happy about that. Youll be ok. its hard going through this stuff but it feels much better when you make "educated" decisions on treatments.
Ouch, so sorry this happened to you... Did you sign any papers where you accepted the risks of the procedure before doing it?
Months ago I did, of course I didn't know he would use such a high dose... but obviously I have learned my lesson! NEVER AGAIN.
i know its hard but u must not panic over this at it will not help at all.
from what i see it doesnt look that bad at all...
i have no idea what is Atrophy .. only entropy lol...
Atrophy is loss of the fat and tissue
Steroid injections can eat away at healthy skin. How can you say it doesn't look bad! You're just like my husband!
no.. but maybe hes just like me ^^.
its not bad u dont have like real scars as icepick or box ..and its also looks like something that will fade away with time.
good luck.
Damn plastic surgeons and the laser sell. What an ass. I really doubt it is bound down because it is a direct result of the cortisone shot. But if it is, you can still do filler with subcision. The one doctor I consulted with said he sometimes will inject filler into a scar and then subcise as needed for it not to donut. So if you go for filler just go to someone who is also familiar with that technique - but again, I think a straight filler would work fine if it doesn't just fill on it's own, or with saline.
Damn plastic surgeons and the laser sell. What an ass. I really doubt it is bound down because it is a direct result of the cortisone shot. But if it is, you can still do filler with subcision. The one doctor I consulted with said he sometimes will inject filler into a scar and then subcise as needed for it not to donut. So if you go for filler just go to someone who is also familiar with that technique - but again, I think a straight filler would work fine if it doesn't just fill on it's own, or with saline.
The part that sucked was that I really researched, he was Ivy league, did charity work like scar revision for abuse victims, so I really thought he'd understand how I felt about what had been done to my face. I know that lasers are the gold standard, but it was 5k for full C02 and other than the damage my derm did to my face (the one pictured now kind of looks like an arrow, I'm so scared of it) my scars aren't that bad. Well at least I'm not bothered by acne scars, I'm bothered by a chunk missing from my face. With all the surgeries they do for skin cancer, you'd think they could fix something like this.
Oh and my derm is not calling me back 
I dont see her for another two weeks, I dont want to make an appointment just for her to tell me no again!
dont worry at all i had the same thing happen to me. i had a cyst injected near my jawline that was like the size of a nickel and then after it went away i got another cyst pretty much in the same area and they injected it way too much and i got a nice size dent. i remember freaking out because i could run my finger over it and feel like this major indent and even though it was near my jawline it looked terrible and i couldnt hide it at all. i think for the first month it got worse and then after that each month it got better. its been about 3 months now and its totally filled in. i did also take 1000mg of vitamin c twice a day and massage the area too. i can assure you that most times these dents totally fill in so just try not to get too stressed and let it heal. hugs to you!!
When I stretch the skin, they don't completely disappear. I say these because he injected me in three places, all of which sunk immediately. I wish I had never done this, my face looked so much better before, and now I can barely leave my house...
This is what the other side looks like 
I can feel the bone on my jaw on the lower one, and the higher one feels like there is just a canyon underneath with hard sides. I cannot sleep at night..
When I stretch the skin, they don't completely disappear. I say these because he injected me in three places, all of which sunk immediately. I wish I had never done this, my face looked so much better before, and now I can barely leave my house...
This is what the other side looks like
please dont worry that is how my holes or indents felt too. it was like a sinkhole it was so deep and it totally filled in but i will say it took at least 3 months or so. it got worse at first then started to get better. up your vitamin c intake and try not to stress. from what i have read they do fill in almost all of the time so just try to stay positive about it. i had 3 indents total that filled in and i have had tons of cortisone shots in the last 6 years. i think i probably had close to 50 of them if not more.
When I stretch the skin, they don't completely disappear. I say these because he injected me in three places, all of which sunk immediately. I wish I had never done this, my face looked so much better before, and now I can barely leave my house...
This is what the other side looks like
please dont worry that is how my holes or indents felt too. it was like a sinkhole it was so deep and it totally filled in but i will say it took at least 3 months or so. it got worse at first then started to get better. up your vitamin c intake and try not to stress. from what i have read they do fill in almost all of the time so just try to stay positive about it. i had 3 indents total that filled in and i have had tons of cortisone shots in the last 6 years. i think i probably had 40 or more of them total.
I am definitely taking my vitamin C twice a day, I'm massaging too to hopefully get any remaining stuff out there. Did your indents have walls though? Or were they just a soft indent? They're such odd shapes too, diamond like and then rectangular, definitely eating away at something...
it is hard to explain but it looked like somebody took their finger and pressed deep down into my skin and then the skin just stayed that way. so yeah it was like a big divot so when i ran my hand over my face i could feel my jawbone where the divot was it was so deep. i literally thought it was never going to fill in but my derm said it will she always see them resolve but that sometimes they take up to 6 months. i know i was totally freaking out and there was no way to hide it. i really thought i had done it this time because for about a month it got deeper and deeper and then it stopped and got better but it took a while. i had the shots sometime in january and now its finally filled in as well as the one on my neck which was fairly deep too. it looked like a big chunk of skin missing. i know how you feel i bet this is so mortifying but it will get better just know that.
i know what you mean i could feel people looking at me and wondering what the hell happened thats for sure. i didnt look anybody in the eye and i avoided going out for months i only went to and from work and i hid from people all the time. i was severely depressed and felt like i wanted to die. it was awful but you will get through it and it will go away. i think from what i remember when they filled in one side felt deeper than the other if that makes any sense. what i had to do was for a few weeks at a time i had to just stop touching it because i would constantly feel around the area and then i would get more stressed. i was so anxious about the whole thing i was all knotted up and so stressed that i lost weight too. ugh!! if you ever need to pm me i am here for you.
i know what you mean i could feel people looking at me and wondering what the hell happened thats for sure. i didnt look anybody in the eye and i avoided going out for months i only went to and from work and i hid from people all the time. i was severely depressed and felt like i wanted to die. it was awful but you will get through it and it will go away. i think from what i remember when they filled in one side felt deeper than the other if that makes any sense. what i had to do was for a few weeks at a time i had to just stop touching it because i would constantly feel around the area and then i would get more stressed. i was so anxious about the whole thing i was all knotted up and so stressed that i lost weight too. ugh!! if you ever need to pm me i am here for you.
Yup I'm at my lowest weight since high school, less than my wedding which I really had to work hard for! I've always been a ball of stress but this is really taking it over the top.
Thanks for the support, I really hope I can look back on this and laugh! And I swear if it fills in I will update with pics so that others can have hope.
yeah i hear ya there i am the same way. i have a lot of anxiety with all these skin issues its really hard sometimes. i get myself almost sick about it but yeah in 3 months or so your indented areas will look so much better or be gone i know it. you just gotta find a way to pass the time. for me i just stayed at home and found things to keep myself busy. i worked out a lot and watched a ton of movies and played games and stuff. i also listened to a lot of music and prayed a lot too. you will be fine though i know it 
hugs to you!
I would jump on the saline injection bandwagon as quick as possible. Im really sorry you are going through this but please heed my advice, toughen up now and get to the bottom of this. No matter what except nothing except your skin reverting back to a position where you are comfortable. Theyre are ways to battle this. Ive been in your position and I wish I hadnt sulked about it and done something to fix it sooner. I would not go the excision route yet. I would explore saline injections or collagen injections first. Just me. Always go least invasive to most invasive.
I just wanted to add here that toughening up is what got me into this mess in the first place. I got mad at my derm because I felt like he was brushing me off and told him I wanted these bumps gone (he called one a keloid so i was WTF), and so he raised the dose and it made me worse than before. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Although as a doctor he should have realized not to use the same damn dosage all over my face.
So they wouldn't give me the saline. They said I would just bruise and it wouldn't be effective. She said the study said atrophic scars but not like what I have... I am so confused. I know she feels really bad for me but told me to just stop looking in the mirror for a while. That I would see the best results with fraxel and fillers. Looks like she thinks its permanent too.
Really sorry that this is happening to you. If it's not too much of a stretch financially, I would personally get some type of filler (Juvederm, Restylane, take your pick) injected. The fact that you state that they are tethered may complicate things, but a filler may give you some temporary relief so that you can go on with your life.
I would not do anything radical like an excision because it seems like such a large area in a high tension zone.
i wouldnt even attempt to do filler yet or anything at all. you gotta give it at least 3-6 months to see if it fills in. i am betting that it will and if you see a doctor about getting it filled most likely they wont do it anyway. i know its hard but you just gotta wait it out and see what happens. if in 6 months or so its not filled in as much as you like you can see about getting a filler but even then they still might want you to wait it out a bit more.
i wouldnt even attempt to do filler yet or anything at all. you gotta give it at least 3-6 months to see if it fills in. i am betting that it will and if you see a doctor about getting it filled most likely they wont do it anyway. i know its hard but you just gotta wait it out and see what happens. if in 6 months or so its not filled in as much as you like you can see about getting a filler but even then they still might want you to wait it out a bit more.
I'll be at the two month mark tomorrow. I know I need to be patient, but I was patient waiting for accutane to work and then my derm did this and set me back to worse than I could have ever imagined. I dont want to look like this for my daughters birthday in august!
Really sorry that this is happening to you. If it's not too much of a stretch financially, I would personally get some type of filler (Juvederm, Restylane, take your pick) injected. The fact that you state that they are tethered may complicate things, but a filler may give you some temporary relief so that you can go on with your life.
I would not do anything radical like an excision because it seems like such a large area in a high tension zone.
I would be willing to, but as you said the tethering makes me think it won't help. I don't even understand why it looks like that, it was healthy skin before, how did he just create a scar? I really hope its just the atrophy...
I don't have anything to add, really, but I feel for you and wanted to give you my well wishes and I really hope everything turns out okay.
Thank you, I hope so too because it is very hard for me to get up and go to work everyday. What he did to me is just unacceptable, and I believe he did it maliciously after I told him I wasn't happy with how things were going.. I'm considering storming his office but I've never been confrontational. I feel violated, any hope of normal skin ( I don't mind acne scars) is just gone.
i really feel for you and it truly is mortifying to see things happening to your face like that. i am sure its so hard to get up and go to work but just know that it will get better. i believe it will fill for you but if for some reason it doesnt then you can get the filler. i think you would just need subcision first but do know that there are treatments out there for you if you have to get anything done. ugh when stuff like this happens its so hard to deal but i know for myself the only thing that kept me sane was doing everything i could to avoid mirrors for a while. it helped me from going totally crazy. i am here for you if you ever need to talk just know that.