A makeup artist spent over $17,000 on rhinoplasty gone wrong including the end of her nose freezing and turning black. In an attempt to save her nose, she used blood-sucking leeches to address the issue.
Shari Manchon, of Palm Beach, Florida, treated herself to a new nose to celebrate her 40th birthday. Not long after the surgery, she started to develop “polly beak” which is a deformity that results in the tip of the nose collapsing away from the cartilage of the nose. The appearance that results from this condition can best be described as resembling the beak of a parrot.
When Manchon spotted the change in her nose, after looking in a mirror, she started to panic. She told an online news outlet “I was trying on a dress and looking in the mirror when, suddenly, I realized that the end of my nose had changed color completely.” She described it as “a very deep purple, almost black, which I later discovered was due to a lack of blood circulating.”
In addition to the change in the color of her nose, she became ill with a sinus infection that caused an “amount of gunk” to come out of her nose for many weeks.
While the changes in her nose caused her to worry day and night, she was also too embarrassed to tell her friends why she was so sick all the time.
Rather than return to the same surgeon that performed her rhinoplasty surgery, her husband, who is also a doctor, helped her seek advice from Dr. Donald Yoo. Dr. Yoo is a well-known plastic surgeon located in Beverly Hills. Shari went to his office in California expecting to spend more money on a revision surgery. Instead, Dr. Yoo suggested that she use leeches to once again get blood circulating to the nose.
She was initially against the idea of leeches being on her body. She eventually decided to try it after consulting with her husband. In addition, Dr. Yoo let her know that it was the only way he could try anything to save her nose thanks to the damage that had already been done to the area. He told her that any sort of invasive operation would only make the situation worse.
Shari was sent to see Irina Brodsky, a hirudotherapy specialist in Los Angeles, to have several leeches travel across her face while she was also covered in her own blood. Shari said she was nervous but determined to get herself out of the bad situation with her nose.
She felt a tiny prick as the leeches attached themselves to her skin. In her own words, the leeches “start out small and then they grow and grow as they start to effectively get drunk on your own bad blood.”
She was able to remain calm as the leeches went about their business. Within three days of the treatment, her nose returned to normal. She no longer had a discolored or cold nose and her sinus infection also went away after the treatment. The blood that was stuck in her nose was sucked out by the leeches and replaced by blood that was not black.
After she returned home from her treatment with the leeches, Shari hosted a birthday party for her daughter. While she was worried about comments from others at the party, Shari was happy to report that nobody noticed anything out of the ordinary about her nose.
Shari will still have to undergo some reconstructive surgery on her nose but she also realizes that the situation would have been much worse without the help of the leeches.
She added that the experience “really changed the way I think about western medicine. I could have gone to another surgeon who probably could have done something but they would have made a lot of money out of me in the process. Instead, going to see Irina and the leeches cost me just $132 which, compared to the $17,295 I spent on the nose job, is a very good value!”
Her experience with the leeches was so good that she plans on returning to Los Angeles to use them to tighten her skin.
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