[00:00:00] If you want to look your best plus save money, you might try beauty treatments at home. But would you try do-it-yourself cosmetic procedures, ABC’s, consumer correspondent, Elizabeth Leeme shows us the methods and the madness, [00:00:17] with a smile and a syringe. This Texas woman actually, injects her own face with a paralyzing wrinkle treatment. And another is, I’ll go to the source of that wrinkle and just inject it in little [00:00:32] squirt and out that easy in another video. She posted. She injects her own lips with a cosmetic fillers. No pain whatsoever. She’s not a doctor or a pharmacist, but [00:00:47] boldly teaching, do-it-yourselfers how to inject themselves with prescription strength products that she sells on her website discount MedSpot.com? Her name is Laurie Dellavedova. [00:01:03] It’s illegal to sell prescription medications without a license and yet authorities say, Dellavedova does with the slogan wrinkles. No savings. Yes she claims to have more than 2,000 customers.

This Nia woman is one of [00:01:18] them. Why did you choose to try to do it yourself rather than going to a doctor? I thought, why should I pay somebody else that got a few hours of training is to do something? I think I can do pretty easily actually. So you were trying to save money. Yes, [00:01:33] she asked us, not to disclose her identity. So we’ll call her Alex. She’s in her 40s and dating. Alex, is a paramedic trained in the use of needles. So, self injecting seemed safe to her. Did you watch the videos?

Site. Every [00:01:48] one of them seemed relatively simple and she made it sound such that you could just go ahead and put the stuff in your face and you be okay two to three lines for each injection. Alex ordered four hundred fifty dollars worth of wrinkle fillers from discount Med. [00:02:03] Spa, she says she injected the products under her eyes and alongside her mouth. At what point did you realize something was going wrong? The next morning was when I woke up horrified by what I saw literally

Lee, my [00:02:18] heart started pounding, and I thought, what have I done? What am I going to do? The injections had caused bags and lumps under her eyes? Alex says, and a hard infected pustule on her cheek. The product Alex [00:02:33] used was called vital lift. What’s that? Nobody really knows, it’s not commercially available or FDA-approved, I think it got scariest when I was looking for the antidote and thinking.

I really don’t know [00:02:48] for sure what this product was. Now Alex, turned to a doctor for help. Okay, Alex, what have you noticed? It was nerve-racking for dr. Jerome Pattison, because he didn’t even know what substance he was battling beneath her skin. I had an, oh my God moment. I’ve never heard of [00:03:03] anyone going to a website and watching a video and then injecting something into their face. It seemed completely out of the realm of credibility. Here you are. You’re a doctor trained in this, you’ve injected thousands, times. [00:03:18] Would you do it yourself? No, there’s too much potential for things to go wrong Dr. Potato skins showed us injecting a patient in the same areas where Alex self injected little pinch, just a millimeter in the wrong direction [00:03:33] could be a disaster. Worst case scenario, if you aren’t so skilled blindness would be the worst-case scenario, really? I mean, you could literally puncture someone’s eye ball, you could inject material into a blood [00:03:48] vessel to have someone think that they can watch a three-minute video and go home and do it themselves. It’s like watching a juggler juggling axes, you know. Don’t try this at home, we asked plastic surgeon dr. Allen gold to order from discount Med [00:04:03] Spa for us. He had his choice of at least 11 different prescription. Strength products from cosmetic, fillers to botulinum, toxin to chemical, peels and creams. I hope people that ordered this, don’t think that it’s as easy to inject the product.

Was to order it. [00:04:18] The website didn’t ask him for a prescription or a license or a medical history to rule out side effects. The only thing they wanted was my credit card information, two days later, dr. Gould received his package, nine [00:04:33] different products with homemade labels and mysterious names and no barcodes. Our quality control Holograms like name-brand Pharmaceuticals would have getting things in a little plastic baggie is not acceptable to me.

With the products [00:04:48] in hand, we asked dr. Gould of a patient could learn what to do with them by watching Lori delevingne’s videos. This is awesome. She doesn’t appear to be a very experienced or very skillful injector but she’s teaching other people. It’s the blind leading. The blind [00:05:03] discount. Med Spa isn’t the only website out there selling treatments, normally reserved for a doctor’s office. You do it for the quick fix. I thought, you know, why not do it Friday and I would be beautiful by Monday sisters.

See Diana [00:05:18] and Jessica of Florida ordered, professional grade chemical peels from another site. Professional quality affordable, non-surgical, cosmetic procedures made safe and easy. They applied the peel themselves and all three were burned [00:05:33] Diana. Says she contracted a staph infection? My first reaction was. Why did I do this? You know, I’m a, I’m a relatively intelligent woman. I could probably use my go, as [00:05:48] the poster woman as to what not to do. It’s scary that they sell this on the internet. This is something that should only be used in a doctor’s office. This woman ordered silicone from the internet to plump her lips and cover a small scar. Now she’s scarred [00:06:03] for life by the following day. It was just completely inflamed my whole face, it just look like horrible blisters and I had to go out there with this. Just [00:06:18] horribly disfigured face. Dr. Edward sakowitz, has been using a laser to treat the scars. It’s actually blending and softening the scar. It could have been worse if she would have been ejected more and more areas and she would have had a much [00:06:33] more significant problem. In fact, this Korean model obsessed with plastic surgery, injected her own face with silicone and then cooking oil with devastating results.

So why don’t authorities shut down these websites? [00:06:48] The state of Texas has known about discount, Med Spa for months, but just charged Lori Della with the illegal sale of prescription drugs last week. Texas investigators, say it Dallas TV station. KTX a captured, the scene as authorities carried [00:07:03] evidence from her home. We went to that same house to ask Della before an explanation but she shut the door when she saw only, the state of Texas has charged you now we’d like to get your response. Della

Ava told us later by phone that she was just the face [00:07:18] of the company and didn’t realize the drugs required a prescription, or that there was anything wrong with selling them online. Hi Alex, here. We ask for Alex. She’s now spent hundreds more trying to undo the damage and definitely look better [00:07:33] under your eyes. And she now thinks, if you do it yourself, you have no one to blame, but yourself, I look back at it. And go I’m a fool and it’s my fault. I’m the one who made the mistake. It’s not worth it. Don’t try it [00:07:48] yourself.