Thank you for your question!
You state in your question that you had Juvederm, Voluma placed and that you’re feeling unwell
and you’re asking should you be worried.
You didn’t submit any photos to this question and in your description, you state that you
had about 2 ml Voluma placed and that you had a burning sensation and a pressure feeling
in the area where the material was injected and at the same time, you mention that there
is no bruising and you are asking if you should be worried.
Well I think that this is a very important question and just to give you a bit of background,
I’m a board certified cosmetic surgeon and fellowship trained oculofacial plastic and
reconstructive surgeon.
I use fillers in my practice a lot.
I use a lot of Juvederm as well as Juvederm Voluma.
I’ve been practicing in Manhattan and Long Island for over 20 years.
There is basically, just to answer the question, from the get go, yes you should be worried.
Anytime you have fever, burning, pain after an injectable you need to bring that to your
doctor’s attention.
One of the things I really have issues with the modern world is that people think of injectable
as less invasive procedure than surgery and that’s simply not true when you really understand
what injectables are.
When you are placing an injectable material whether its’ Juvederm, Voluma, Restylane,
any other injectable you’re going pass the skin.
You’re going through one barrier that protects you from infection.
So once you’ve entered the body, that’s an invasive procedure.
Now the point we are saying that is that when I do these procedures, I adhere to a very
high level sterility.
I treat the patients in a similar way as if we are doing surgical procedure.
I take a lot of time in doing the procedure.
I put a lot of thought in the after care.
I’m also a surgeon and the patient is always able to call me 24 hours a day at any time.
I tell my patients exactly this and that if there are concerns at all day or night whatever
the time to contact me.
It is very important that any potential infection be dealt as quickly as possible.
The hyaluronic fillers are very safe but there are definitely plenty of cases where people
have developed infections.
Now there are infections that can occur soon after the injection like might be the case
for you or can happen months after the injection so continuous communication and information
and awareness is very important.
So if you haven’t already definitely contact your doctor and if your doctor is unavailable,
find another doctor to take a look at you to see what the situation is.
Sometimes people, I’m not saying people can’t have a cold or other reasons for fever
after injectable but it is hard not to but at least from the description, when you say
burning and localized tenderness, to not be worried of the potential form of infection
that’s why seeing the doctor in person is critically important.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question!