Holt wrote: Hi guys so I’ve lost 80% of my gains! I’m absolutely gutted I noticed today after work and I’ve just had an erection and you can’t even feel the filler at all! What other options have I got?! It looked so good with 10ml filler in after the first 2 weeks! I wasted £2700 on this I’m devastated. Has using the sun beds done this?
It appears you asked this question twice, so I went ahead and deleted the other topic out of redundancy. I will copy and paste the message you wrote in a separate topic below:
Topic Title: 12ml filler at Androfill - lost all my gains within 4 weeks Hi guys, I’m absolutely gutted. So I had 12ml of volux at Androfill UK I picked 12ml filler which should have got me 0.5/0.6 Girth increase. The recovery was fine I moulded it perfect and I loved the look of my new Dick. I am in a long distance relationship I haven’t even seen my girl yet I am due to see her in 8 days time and I was so excited for the sex. Today after work I noticed wtf my Flaccid Dick looks like my old one and all day I’ve been feeling so bad. I got in from work and managed to get a hard on and yeah I’ve lost everything. My Dick looks and feels exactly the same. You can’t even feel the filler no more. What did I do wrong? I went on the sun beds like 4 times but surely that would not dissolve it? I feel heartbroken, after spending £2700 on something that I didn’t even get to use. Do I have any other options other than PMMA? --
@Holt
My response to that thread is as follows:
You are very much an outlier statistically. Our body's reabsorption/break-down of fillers vary person-to-person, with reports of guys retaining most of their HA for as much as 2 years (obviously less common) and as little as 6 months. However, 4 weeks is the quickest I've ever heard of full dissipation.
I have no idea if the sunbeds could have played a role but concentrated ultra-violet may have played a role, hard to say (although with how extreme your losses have been, it's a plausible hypothesis). Either way, I would reach out to Androfill (namely Francis) and tell him your situation. Also explain the sunbeds, as Hyaluronic Acid (HA) being a temporary may very well be less robust under certain conditions.
I will say however this does not appear to be the fault of Volux, Androfill, or even you. This seems to be either the unfortunate matter of your body have an incredibly high propensity to breakdown filler (which may make you better suited for Ellanse) and/or exposure to intense UV, which I can't blame Androfill for not including this as a warning because there is no telling if other men who have lost filler quickly made mention of their sunbed use, and to be frank, don't often hear men make indoor tanning a regular thing.
As a matter of fact, halfway through this post I decided to do a little digging. It turns out 70% of indoor tanning boutiques cater to Caucasian women, which means the remaining 30% account can account for a blend of men and women of different pigmentation. Granted, this is just one statistic found on Google, but other sites suggests that in the U.S. (not too different from the U.K. I'd imagine in this regard) see a prevalence of 1% to 2% of the overall male population as having ever indoor tanned. This means the prevalence of male indoor tanning is so infrequent that I don't know if I can fault Androfill for not having issued the warning, especially since the role of informed consent includes sharing with you potential complications; the use of a sunbed that may* degrade HA quicker than usual wouldn't apply. Heck, to think of it, I wonder if any Clinic on this site mentions avoiding UV in any of their materials given to their patients pre-op & post-op, it's just so exceedingly uncommon (that it's the first time I've read about it here where guys get HA all the time).
Even more telling is this (while I can't say for certain the claims below are accurate, it's worth mentioning the site itself deals with Skin Cancer, so I have reason to believe there may be some legitimacy to it), see below -->
From www.advancedlaserandskincancercenter.com/
Scientific research has indicated that UV exposure via sunlight and tanning beds degrades hyaluronic acid (as well as collagen). Therefore, safety precautions should be taken to protect the long-term results of dermal filler treatment during the summer months.
After having reading this, I am now heavily leaning toward the UV hypothesis, especially since the above claim includes dermal fillers by name. You see, 4 weeks is just insanely quick, like record-setting quick. You could very well be one of those who breakdown filler faster and HAPPENED to have UV only expedite the process, that's also a possibility. Again, this does not seem like the fault of any party or product, but possibly an unfortunate dance with fate, unknowingly exposing a dermal filler compound to intense and focused UV.
If it turns out the UV played a significant role and confirmed with high confidence, then I'm going to issue a PSA to the forum and a newsletter to all my Sponsors to begin including this information as it pertains to HA injections.
My strongest suggestion is to reach out to Francis, explain the losses, explain the sunbed and that there may be reason to believe UV can impact the HA filler and see what comes of it. There may be reason to believe HA will work for you so long as you discontinue sunbed use, or he may suggest Ellanse would be the better way to go while limiting sunbed use if this is something you'd like to continue doing down the road.
Trust me, they don't want patients spending thousands to see it gone in 4 weeks. I implore you to reach out to Francis next week given that it is the weekend now.