A woman who underwent a cosmetic procedure at a home in Miramar is speaking out about her dangerous journey to look better that she says has put her life in danger and cost her thousands.
"This problem is like an epidemic and it's a growing epidemic," Georgina Giraldo told NBC 6.
Giraldo said she never saw any of this coming after she made the decision to tighten her buttocks, but a few shots she thought would make her look better have been haunting her since.
"I went with a friend and she looked great and I said 'oh I will do it too.' I was never told you are going to get bio fillers and this is dangerous or anything," she said.
Her decision put her in the hospital. She got the injections at a woman's home in Miramar but now the woman is long gone.
"Of course when you call the person they disappear," Giraldo said.
But what doesn't disappear is the illness from the fillers placed in her body.
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"My problem was cellulitis of the skin where I was hospitalized," Giraldo said.
Giraldo said she spent $100,000 on medical bills and even lost her home as she tried to recover. The fear of the unknown constantly haunts her.
"I think with fear, lots of fear because I don't know what's going to happen," she said.
The Miami-Dade woman went to Colombia to see Dr. Carlos Rios, who specialized in aiding women after cosmetic surgery goes wrong. Many of the women are from Florida.
"I saw at least 50 women a week in my clinic," Dr. Rios told NBC 6. "For the psychological problems secondary to the by-polymers we see and the inflammations that they are undergoing because of the injections could kill."
"My message is to be careful where you go, what you chose to do to yourself," Giraldo said.
