Is Yellow/purple Bruising Normal 14 Days After Lower Eyelid Surgery? (photo)

I don't think you have anything to worry about because bruising has no long-term effect on the outcome of an operation. However, your bruising has persisted somewhat longer than usual.

Thank you for your photograph.  Everything you described is completely normal.  All these issues will go away with time.  Best Wishes.

Dr. ES

Bruising after surgery takes a variable amount of time to go away.  The bruising that you show in the photo would beast be treated with a V Beam laser.  This works great on making dark bruising fade in  days.  I would consider this if you are anxious to get rid of the bruises.  Otherwise they will go away but may take another week or two to completely go.

Yes it will go away.  Just be patient and your body will take care of it.  You don't need to go to the health food store and get arnica-this product is completely ineffective.  

In most cases, bruising normally will resolve after about 1-2 weeks after lower eyelid surgery.  As you mentioned, everyone does heal differently, so it's not out of the question to still have some bruising at 14 days after your procedure.  You do just need to be patient and wait a bit longer and the bruise should resolve completely.  Some doctors feel that Arnica cream helps the bruising to go away a bit faster, so you could check with your surgeon about that possibility.  

Yours is normal... I tell my patients to use warm compresses on it to help it resolve faster.

I guess your doctor is right in that 1 or 2 weeks are good enough time to recover from bruises. However, there are some people who have bruise tendency. For those people, it takes more until the bruises disappear. If you wait a little more, it will be all right.

Some patients take a longer time to heal. Perhaps you had more bruising than others in the early post-op period?

When we as surgeon state a time frame for healing it is just an average or the top of the bell shaped curve. You fall on the long side of this curve, so 2 to 4 weeks is the norm for you. 

When we as Plastic Surgeons inform patients about what they can expect after surgery we usually describe the average experience of the average patient. We also tend to minimize things like pain and bruising. The bruising you have is well within normal limits for blepharoplasty. I've not discovered over the years a way to make it disappear quicker. You can make it worse with any sun exposure at all. A little green tinted cover makeup will be your only solution until the discoloration is gone in a few weeks.