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Nerve pain and lash loss.
I'm 3+yrs out and the left eye nerve irritation has not subsided. Most of the lashes are gone now - about 80% lash loss. I can live with that...but the nerve pain, throb, itching and irritation is constant. Any ideas? Surgical release? It's always felt like the nerve got caught up in a stitch. Tacked down if you will.
2+ years out. Eyelashes may be the price for less bags.
Well - I'm 2 years out. Results are stable. Less swelling, less bags, more loose crepey wrinkles were fat pads used to be. Naturally. It wasn't a perfect outcome. I will likely loose the lashes mostly on the left side. The nerve irritation has not stopped and the lashes get thinner and thinner. Feels like the nerve got caught up in the stitches. It's being suffocated or cut off. I feel it every time I blink - uncomfortable. It's very unhappy. I've had about 50-60% loss in lashes on that side. Would I do it again? Perhaps. Might have asked a few more questions and made sure that the 2 surgeons who attended my consult would actually BOTH be in the surgery suite. Instead - it was just the Dr. Hilger - minus his very astute and much much younger female Fellow. I assumed incorrectly that there would be a second set of eyes in the OR. My bad.
1 year out. Nerve pain and Eyelashes falling out on 1 side.
What I thought was normal nerve pain healing is clearly not. It's always felt like the nerve on upper left lid was being stomped on. That maybe it got caught in a stitch. When I open my eye, it feels like the nerve for the upper lid is being sat on. When closing the eye it's irritated and stretched out. Now I'm losing the lashes on that lid. I think the nerve is restricted and dying. Hope it's not to late to save the lashes. The whole left eye is nervy. Can't wear mascara - hurts eyelashes. Can't sleep on left side because of nerve pain on the outside edge of the orbital area.
Right eye lower lid fat pad seems to have settled in just below my eye - so that when I look down I see the inside of my eye lid because the tissue can't get out of the way.
By looking at me you can't tell that I'm uncomfortable and I don't look disfigured. But dang - there's got to be something that can relieve the niggling after effects. And I pray I won't loose all my eyelashes :-(
Right eye lower lid fat pad seems to have settled in just below my eye - so that when I look down I see the inside of my eye lid because the tissue can't get out of the way.
By looking at me you can't tell that I'm uncomfortable and I don't look disfigured. But dang - there's got to be something that can relieve the niggling after effects. And I pray I won't loose all my eyelashes :-(
Provider Review
Dr. Peter Hilger is a Professor and Director of the Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology, at the University of Minnesota.