“Lower Blepharoplasty - Des Moines, IA”

So far everything is going as planned considering i try to be as patient as possible. I posted a question about being 5wks post bleph and assymetrical. So far i received some shots for swelling/bumpiness around incisions and about 3 days after those i saw a huge improvement. I just have to keep from freaking out. MY doctor is excellant and has been supportive thruout and since the surgery. I saw him about 5wks post op, and i'll go back in few months in jan. '12. But so far i have freaked out about 3 times, and the doctor and nurse and the dr's comments i've received here were all correct. That it is still too soon to tell, that i'm still swollen, that it may take 6mo's before completly healed and to try and be patient. Easier said than done. So far things look better and better each day and week. They are much better than they were. I will continue to trust the dr. and nurse. Plus, if i'm very unhappy i can always have other things done. For ex. the tear troughs.

Updated on 8 Dec 2011:
Had been getting some severe headaches in and around my eyes. Thought it could be related to surgery but Dr. said no. Was more likely sinus infection. Went on some prednisone pack and it seemed to help but still dull ache once in a while.
Eyes are ok. Still healing i guess. Been very depressed lately when look in the mirror. the lighting in my bathroom doesnt do me any favors. It seems as though the right eye has a puffy lid close to the eyelash line and both eyes seem to be sunkin in more. My dr. thinks they look good, so much better than before. The puffiness is gone but they were more symmetrical before. Now they're assymetrical and the circles below them (where lid and cheek meet)are very pronounced, especially when i smile. They are worse than they were before. The nurse told me they would improve. I'm wondering if maybe i should have went with a tear trough filler to begin with. Its just weird. How different they look. Its like i traded in one problem for another. I guess its been only about 7 weeks now, and i know, its still healing. But it just seems that the more the inflammation goes away the more raccoon like my eyes. I guess they call that hollowed out. I dont know. So i'm trying not to look to much in bathroom mirror. the brighter the lighting seems to help, but i still feel like i cant go without my glasses, which was the whole reason i wanted to get the bleph done to begin with. So i could wear my contacts more.

Updated on 29 Dec 2011:
Its Dec. 29. About 2.5 mo's since lower bleph. will post pictures at exactly 2mo's and today. Today i noticed on the side of eye where incision is it has indented in. Very upset about this. Called Dr. and nurse told me that its from the shots he gave me and they will pop out again. I havent had any shots for inflammation since Nov. 17, so i'm not sure it would take this long to have a reaction. Now the rings under my eyes are more noticable than ever and not just on the inner side but on the outer side now too, especially noticable when i smile. Let me know what you think. Going to dr. in Jan. for reeval.

Updated on 11 Jan 2012:
Lets see its 1/11/12. and i'm really noticing the dents at the sides of my eyes. They actually show the orbital bone more which almost completes an entire ring under my eye. Thats not what i wanted.the nurse said they'll pop back out, but i received them back in nov. its been a while. Its like instead of bags and rings, now its just reversed and theres more darkness and defined rings. the left eye is better than the right, i think. I've been very depressed. Wrote in several questions and answers always the same-be patient, wait, may need filler. i dont know why he didnt readjust the fat while he was in there. I dont get it. Is he just trying to suck more money out of me. I'm not married with a husbands salary too. I saved a long time for this. I guess its better than before. Its just hard to look at myself in the mirror. Especially when i smile. I feel like I cant smile anymore because it pronounces the dark circles even more. I've posted a few questions which show pics. One doctor told me it was hard to evaluate since the b4 pic i'm not smiling & the last pic i am. Well, sorry, but i dont want to go thru life not able to smile anymore. I didnt do this to make me uglier. Obviously not having a good day. I'll keep you posted.

Updated on 16 May 2012:
well i had my 7mo. checkup today and i've been kind of unhappy with the results. i had a lower bleph last oct. and i feel like i have raccoon eyes worse than before. the right eye was always worse but i looks red under the skin. dr. says thats cause i'm so fair. well i was fair when i talked to him before the surgery and he said nothing about bruising being permanent. i told him my eyes looked more assymetrical than ever. especially when i smile. dr. always takes pictures not smiling therefore you cant see the problems as well. i told him i cant spend the rest of my life not smiling. he asked if i wanted corrective surgery and i said i was afraid of surgery. he said i could have radiesse filler injections in cheek to lift it to cover the tear trough. i dont know anything about this. i didnt think it was permanent. dr. said that we'd probably do it 3 times at most and that was all i would need. i asked him if i would have to keep doing that and he said no. i read online that it could last 7 yrs at most. so i'm not sure what to believe. anyway, has anyone ever had radiesse after lower bleph for the tear trough indents. you can see the indent where lower lid meets cheek. in fact, right eye worse than left. plus i now have a tiny lid under the lash line on my right eye that wasnt visible before. the dr. didnt say anything about if he could correct that. he never even mentioned that that could be a possible outcome.

i told him he had said that he didnt do fillers because they could leave bumps because the eyelids are so thin. he said he never said that. he said injections would be in cheek to have lift to cover trough. i said why didnt we do this more conservative procedure 1st instead of bleph. he didnt say anything. he had led me to believe that i couldnt do fillers for my problem and now after surgery he wants to do a filler. i want to do it, but i'm scared to. has anyone ever had the filler after bleph. i left some recent pics. any comments or advice on what to do would be helpful. thanks