April 11 I recently had my upper and lower eyelids reduced by Dr. Myint. I paid $3100 to Dr. Myint,for the lower eyes not covered by my insurance. $600 to the anesthesiologist and $1400 to Seven Hills Surgical Center.
I started the process in December. Dr. Myint and I met and he said he could do all three procedures. Upper eyelid reduction, and left lower lid correction due to having bells palsy would be covered by my insurance. I was scheduled for March. Due to office incompetence the upper lid procedure was not approved by my insurance. Dr Myint and had to request a peer to peer review. My Insurance said they did not submit the pictures they took, or the field vision test. Sadly the whole thing was postponed several times. Finally the day arrives and Dr. Myint FAILS to perform lower eyelid reduction. The part I paid $5100.00 he just did not do.
I called his answering service very upset, and Dr. Myint called me back after finishing surgery that day. Promised to make this right by performing the procedure in his office as a "touch up". What he meant was without an anesthesiologist, no Surgical Center, No one to monitor my extremely high blood pressure. I felt trapped. I called several people to verify this was even legal. No one at my insurance company would say it was okay, and I tried to see my PCP and could not get in. My concern was they already had my money, how else would I get this done? I felt I did not have a choice. It's not like you want to look like you just had eye surgery and then do it again. The whole point was to do this all at the same time.
On Tuesday April 18 at 6:30 AM Dr Myint performed the procedure like an illegal abortion, in a backroom. It was two hours of torture that have left me unable to function normally. I put my hands in my pockets, I was covered in paper and strapped to a table. Dr Myint was repeated sticking my face over and over. It hurt so much I was squeezing my hands into a fist inside my pocket. Digging three of my fingernails into my hands causing them to bleed. Every time I would flinch he would say local, it just was not working. Over and Over for two hours. I am still a wreck. It took me two hours to drive home after that and it should have been a hour at the most. Fact was I should not have been driving at all. What kind of doctor does that to a patient????
In Dr. Myint's rush to make things right it was again all about him. Him covering up his massive screw up. What he did not know or take the time to find out was I suffer from PTSD already. The work done to my face with just a local anesthesia was so painful, cruel, and unbelievably inhumane I am now in therapy for recurrence of PTSD. On top of that what he did to my upper lids, made my field of vision worse not better. I now have to get a brow lift to fix the new problem, and sadly have to wait six months to do that. Because of removing eyelid skin, the brow lift might not work if my eyes can't close. Six months of issues seeing, driving, and reading. The extra skin gathered at the corners of my eyes itch, pull and tear. My right lower lid has a bag, extra skin just hanging out that was not there before Dr Myint did this procedure. I have curtains of extra skin draped on my eyelashes, and tucked into pleats at the corners of my eyes. Little kids stare, some ask their Mom what happen to him?
I saved for a very long time to get this done. I trusted Dr Myint to do this right the first time. It seems to me there is fraud going on with billing. He basically rents the room at Seven Hills Surgery every Tuesday. Doing dozens of procedures one right after another. All that time I paid for the surgical center, and anesthesiologist went to someone else, and not my lower lids. He did not do them. They want to call it even. I am interviewing lawyers. My eyes look awful and worse now than before the before both procedures.
Nice people make mistakes, and some offer to fix it as Dr. Myint has done. Honestly I just can't trust a doctor that thinks it is okay that I or anyone should experience that level of pain, and that is perfectly okay. I question what OTHER procedures he is doing in that backroom, and how is it legal for them to say you have to pay this it is the required cost of the procedure, charge me $5100.00 and then say oh you don't really need all that I can do it in my office, as just an adjustment. It's a SCAM - he is a LIAR - they are CON ARTISTS. Good doctors do not practice this way.
I am filing a complaint with my Insurance company, The Nevada Board of Physicians, and I talking to a lawyer, about a medical malpractice law suit. It might end up in small claims court.
Call me for pictures of my eyes, and please think twice before seeing Dr. Myint. I am Lenny @ 702-250-4331 and putting my number here should validate how important this is to me. read more