it can cause massive recurrent bumps lumps called granulomas when that happens this could damage the tissue it can get in your blood supply it can cause a clot it can kill you give us a little history of what happening you and what you're trying to do I'm a transgender person and usually when you're transitioning hormones only do so much it was word Mountain community that there was someone in our community that did the pumping and I had seen some girls that had gone to her and um they looked beautiful pumping parties are when you go to someone's residence but obviously not in a medical office and have whatever it is injected into your face and your body you don't know what you're getting so I went to get my face done first what did she inject first well concrete cement when I had the first surgery done they sent samples to the lab and the result of that was that I had in terestrial strength silicone which is really a kind of cement how long ago was that it was in 2003 okay one morning I woke up and my entire left side of my face was like a boil and I was in the mirror and all of a sudden explosion oh medical grade silicone injections in this country is illegal is never a good idea to go to someone's home and have cocking material injected into your face Raj's one of the reasons you go to medic medical school you want to help people like that Big Hearted wonderful gentle person I'm just hoping we can help her today how many people come to your office with something foreign putting no lips Oh you mean like cement concrete kind of thing ready for this sheep's fat sheep cells um she said it was sheep fat take a look these are big but these don't look in what country was this done in here in this country this country no way can you please send in Ashley hello guys how are you how are you Dr Cherry de pleasure nice to meet you give us the story what happened here what color was the syringe clear clear yes so wasn't yellow okay was it liquid or it looked like like solid it was liquidy once you healed a little bit do did it look good for a while yes I like it was this big no it's been 12 years and they get bigger every year yeah the typical patient will come in at most will get one cc maybe one and a half in their upper and lowers you probably have seven or eight cc's in each lip wow but you don't have big lips because you had necessarily too much put in your body has had an immunologic reaction to the forign material to put in and by the way had you had sheep fat put in you would have immediately had acute rejection response you would have gotten infected you would have gotten sick have you would have been the probably most likely this is non medical grade nonsterile silicone yeah thank you for seeing [Music] me a combination of thoughts are running through my mind shock Intrigue even fear of what really is in there how did you get to this place what did you have injected into your body the lady who injected me told me that it was hydrogel I don't know if that was popular when it came to yeah yeah hydrogel is a synthetic polymer called polyacryamide which is a gel that when injected into the body attracts water and gets incorporated into the tissue the problem is that incorporation can have a very significant immunologic reaction and can lead to potential serious disasters do you have pain no I don't have any pain yet but my butt if you press into it you feel you feel stuff so are there hard areas yes there are hard areas that's all those granular yeah okay and I have discoloration and discoloration the postinflammatory hyperpigmentation that's what we call Pi is what we call it what are your goals I want to try to remove them and have a smaller but why don't we go in the exam room and take a look and see if we can figure out what doc you might need a drink before we go here I might need a drink all right people are intrigued with this but they need to know what's going on I need to know what's going on with this butt in year 2010 I go to Colombia for only two weeks to go see my family my cousin she tells me about this great doctor that was having discounted surgeries on lipo I went to see him and he said yeah we can do some lipo on your back and um he say and you know what with that fat we can actually kind of recycle it we can transfer it to your butt okay I didn't tell my husband this because I wasn't going there for surgery it just kind of happened and uh I was in love with the results but then 2014 I start feeling this felt like pebbles sitting down it was uncomfortable it pinched me okay and that's when I told my husband my husband is freaking out what but when did you did the fat transfer you never told me about this so um I go to Colombia and I go see this doctor he said that it was in fact that was silicon and on the MRI is showing it's all over my butt what' he tell you we had to take it out immediately okay he said you're lucky this can kill you you don't want to mess with injected silicone it can cause massive recurrent bumps lumps called granulomas when that happens this could damage the tissue it can get in your blood supply it can cause a clot it can kill you um I go in surgery about 3 days later okay so he's making a big incision one side to the other okay and then he's taking all the fat removing fat with silic yeah right I come out from surgery I was shocked yeah he took your btic away completely he removed it I feel like I was I'm still I'm still deformed not only did this change my life physically but my husband and I are now thinking of separating he has lost all trust in me and I don't think he'll ever forgive me for what I did right now I feel very disappointed on myself feel ashamed and guilty I know you're having some issues with the silicone but is this the look that you wanted to achieve am I right about this what you know is that I was always obsessed with superheroes and I always like to work out you know and realize M I want to have that body how much did you end up with in each arm I probably each home 12200 CC's 1,000 CC's home to Mexico City Mexico City is it legal in Mexico to do yeah did you get silicone injected anywhere else in your body no so I so I yes so I yes no no no yes yes yes so I did I did so I had in my lips and 3 years ago I always wanted a nose job but I didn't want to really to have a surgery so I went to a doctor and he said okay put filler in you was it silicone yeah it was silicone injections yes yeah I've never seen or heard of this much silicone being placed in any part of the body the immune system can wall off various aspects of the silicone who form nodules they can be very painful and cosmetically deforming and difficult if not impossible to remove and it's a real scary thing so are you having problems with your arms yes I do you see I have like balls here and here it's a you see this one is hard and those ones are hard yes wow but it seems like it's growing you know your story is fascinating it's really all about the complic ofone injection which are these granul so we'll examine you very carefully and determine what the best options are okay so let's go have a look where did you come in from uh Las Vegas Las Vegas living there for a while yeah we travel a lot so we're like mostly in Vegas in Atlanta travel out doing what I film content you know like an influencer so I'm known as like your favorite snow bunny snow bunny yeah snow bunny where I got the name snow bunny was like a white girl with a big booty cuz bunnies have big butts maybe right no I don't know they don't how did you get a buck like this well originally I wanted to get a BBL at the time I didn't have the money for it so I was like oh the easy way out let's just get instant results and I did a round of hydrogel shots okay that was your first thing yeah how many years ago was that that was 6 years ago 6 years ago where was it done in a hotel it was in like a basement of a medical spa and it was real hydrogel uh you think I don't know you could see like the cans it was like canisters and it was like jelly looking stuff canister like yeah it was like two they put two holes on one on each side of the cheek and then like they fill up the big syringes it was like huge syringe like this hydrel Lo it wasn't no oh my God hydrogel comes preloaded in syringes sounds like you had maybe I've seen every variety of craziness from plumbing supplies concrete it could be plastic it could be illegal silicone you never know what it is but at the end of the day if it's not medically approved it's not supposed to be used and it's disaster almost always that was going to go like have a doctor do a BBL and like put fat down there but a lot of doctors said they won't touch it if there's already something there right they don't know how it's going to react BL given that your social media is basically and your buck is your whole world aren you a little concerned that if you do something on top of a complication you may have a even worse [Music] complication where did you have the butt injections done they were in a hotel room so this person would come in she would fly in from Florida what would she inject in you one time after she left some of the stuff had fell out on the counter and I wanted to see what it was so I went like that was it was like oil it's most likely a nonmedical grade silicone non-medical grade silicone is industrial something that you might use in machine parts or something like that you don't want that injected in your body the kidney doctor said let's go get some of this stuff taken out so it's that silicone floating around her in vascular space exactly is that a big granula if you can actually Elevate that floppy tissue you know just to make her feel better and maybe do the Shelf mhm if you can get rid of that which is also silicone that's also going to help her