Los Angeles Brow Lift doctors

In our practice we perform an Endoscopic Brow Lift With Endotine Fixation. Access for the Endoscope, Endoscopic Instruments, and Endotine is provided by 5 small incisions behind the hairline, each about an inch and a half in length. We now close these incisions with surgical staples because we have found that this technique prevents hair loss more effectively than closure with sutures. Typically, we remove these staples 5-7 days after the procedure, and this is how long we tell our patients the recovery is from an Endoscopic Brow Lift with Endotine Fixation.

However, if you were to interview a typical patient of ours, she would tell you that the pain she experienced from this procedure is minimal, and that she only took pain pills in the first day or two after the surgery, if she took any at all. In fact, most patients do not even describe the post-operative discomfort they experience after an Endoscopic Brow Lift with Endotine Fixation as pain, but rather a feeling of tightness, that usually recedes after a few days.

We generally hold our patients back from returning to the gym or sports for about 3 or 4 weeks following the surgery, but because of the hidden nature of the access incisions, the rarity of significant bruising, and the minimal swelling associated with this procedure, we tell our patients they can plan on returning to work within a week of the procedure, and we have had patients who have actually gone back to work in half that time!

Three weeks after an endoscopic brow lift is still quite early in the scheme of things. If one thinks about how an endoscopic browlift is performed, one realizes that in the course of this procedure, small nerves are being transected, strong ligaments are being taken down, soft tissues are being elevated and placed under tension.  It is neither surprising nor uncommon for a patient at your stage of recovery to experience the sensations you describe.

Symptomatic treatment with muscle relaxants and NSAIDS may certainly help you in the short term, and reduce the feelings of discomfort you are experiencing. However, it is clear from reading your post that there is a psychological component to your symptoms as well, even to the point where it is "driving you crazy." So in the bigger picture, probably the most important thing to emphasize is that we can say with assurance that with time, the transected nerve endings will grow back, the tension on the soft tissue will decrease, and your awareness and sensitivity to these stimuli will diminsh overall.

By six months after an endoscopic brow lift, for most patients, all of this symptomatology has disappeared, and often this occurs much sooner than that! Hopefully, the sure knowledge that all of these annoying sensations will ultimately and completely go away, will allow you to block them out more effectively in the short term.

 Unfortunately, you do not say what technique was used for your "brow pexy".  It is possible that some of these procedures may accentuate certain defects that were present preoperatively, or, alternatively, cause a degree of atrophy of the soft tissues in some areas, depending on the techniques employed. At this juncture, you would be best served by undergoing fat transfer to the affected area.

In general, it is advisable for the surgeon performing this procedure to "over-correct" this area, anticipating that not all of the transferred fat will survive. It is also important for you to know that complete correction and contouring of this area may require more than a single fat transfer procedure, but in the hands of a surgeon experienced with fat grafting techniques, the likelihood of your ultimately attaining a satsifactory result is good.