Photos: Woman Lost Her Hands, Feet, Buttocks After InjectingSilicone Filler For Big Butt

In case you are planning having a silicone filler
for big, curvy butt, maybe you might change
your mind after reading this, or save enough
thousands of dollars to get yourself a good
cosmetic surgery practitioners. Apryl Brown,
from Los Angeles, lost her hands and feet and
nearly her life after a silicone filler procedure
went horribly wrong.
The mother of two was a successful hair stylist
who owned her own salon, but had always
wanted to fix what she saw as her ‘flaw’ – her
flat bottom but instead of getting the big,
curvy butt, she ended up losing the little one
she had.

Since recovering from the horrific ordeal the
47-year-old has devoted much of her time to
speaking out and encouraging others to think
twice about what they let someone inject in
their bodies and seek out skilled
professionals.

Her problems began in 2005 when a woman
claiming she could provide buttock injections
walked into her salon. Instead of telling her to
leave, Apryl, who says she always wanted
bigger buttocks, was thrilled and immediately
agreed to have the treatment. At first,
everything seemed fine but just months after
having the injections, the pain began.

'My buttocks started to get hard, and then they
started to get discoloured,' she explains. 'By
2006, it was starting to itch and by 2007, the
pain started. She had sleepless nights, she
couldn't eat, or even concentrate.

'I literally scratched all of the skin off my
buttocks. My nails pulled all of the skin off my
body. And when my sister came in, and she
saw that, it freaked her out.'
Apryl was rushed to hospital, where surgeons
discovered that a massive infection caused by
the impure silicone had caused her body to go
into severe shock.

'The only end point on silicone injections is
removal,' explains the doctor who saved
Apryl's life, James Jens Black. Removal when
it's not infected or removal when it is infected
and about to kill you.'

After a month in a coma, Apryl awoke to a
very different world. The drugs that saved
Apryl's life had diverted blood flow to her
essential organs, keeping her heart beating and
liver functioning as her body fought off the
infection. But her hands and feet, starved of
oxygen while the drugs did their work, had
died.

Along with her buttocks, too damaged and
infected from the injections to remain, her
hands and feet had to be amputated. Despite
the heavy price she paid for cheap surgery,
Apryl says that she's recovering and is
determined to enjoy the rest of her life