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Getting excited about my surgery scheduled for...
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Getting excited about my surgery scheduled for April 3. Im 49 and my eyes look so tired. I feel young and I'd like to look younger and not so tired. Doctor says my lower eyelids are worse than my uppers. My upper lids have become more and more hooded as I age. I'm eating right, drinking lots of water and taking my vitamins. Three days prior to surgery I will start taking arnica montana to help with bruising and swelling. So ready!
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UPDATED FROM MrsMofOC
5 days pre
6 More Days Until Surgery
Only 6 more days until my surgery. I had my blood work done yesterday. Emailed with my doctors staff and they are sending my pharmacy the prescriptions so I can get them filled ahead of time. This will be antibiotic ointment, antibiotic pills and pain meds. My surgery is scheduled for 7am on Thursday. I will be having my surgery in my PS's surgery center in his office under general anesthesia. He tells me it's about a 2 hour surgery.
Feeling like I need to get everything wrapped up with work and needing to clean my house and do laundry and get all of my other duties done so I can just relax and heal after surgery. I'm thinking about using a zero gravity lounge chair to sleep in after surgery so I can stay elevated. I'm a stomach sleeper and this is going to be so hard!!!! If I try to stay propped up in my bed I think I will roll over and hurt my face.
I haven't told my friends or parents about my choice for surgery, although they have heard me say over and over that I want it done for my 50th birthday. Let's see who notices first. LOL
Keeping all of my thoughts positive and visualizing a beautiful more youthful look!
Feeling like I need to get everything wrapped up with work and needing to clean my house and do laundry and get all of my other duties done so I can just relax and heal after surgery. I'm thinking about using a zero gravity lounge chair to sleep in after surgery so I can stay elevated. I'm a stomach sleeper and this is going to be so hard!!!! If I try to stay propped up in my bed I think I will roll over and hurt my face.
I haven't told my friends or parents about my choice for surgery, although they have heard me say over and over that I want it done for my 50th birthday. Let's see who notices first. LOL
Keeping all of my thoughts positive and visualizing a beautiful more youthful look!
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March 29, 2014
Wishing you the best of luck Marilyn .
March 29, 2014
Good for you, keep up the positivity. My doctor said there's no prescriptions for me. Weird. I still think it's funny how they're all different. I've been doing the same as you, spring cleaning, decorating for Easter, etc. so I won't have anything to do after surgery. I'm going to be bored. But we'll look great for summer! 10 years younger is what I see in everyone who had the surgery.
March 29, 2014
Im a stomache sleeper too but I've worried about so many other things that I figured I'm just going to do the best I can with sleeping. If I don't get a lot I can always nap during the day. I'm sure we'll be fine. I don't think they're worried about us ruining our face but getting swollen from the horizontal position. I'm such a heavy sleeper I sleep thru alarms, tv's, etc but I think I'll be more aware because I have it drilled into me that we have to sleep upright or at least a good incline.
March 29, 2014
A zero gravity chair should work out just fine. I slept in a recliner for 3 weeks after my surgery and it was surprisingly restful and definitely helped keep the swelling down.
UPDATED FROM MrsMofOC
4 days pre
Just a Few Photos of Before Surgery
Just wanted to add a few "before photos". 5 more days!!!
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March 30, 2014
Good luck to you! I'll be thinking about you.
March 30, 2014
Thank you so much. That's really sweet :-)). I'm sure you're glad you had it done. Your results are very impressive. I'll be sure to keep posting photos. My PS says he is very conservative and doesn't take too much skin because you can't put it back. He offers a free revision within the first year if you need one. I don't think I would want to heal up a second time but who knows. Hopefully it's not that bad and I'll be happy after the first surgery.
March 31, 2014
MrsMarilyn, I'm 5 months out from lower blepharoplasty with an ocular plastic surgeon. It was the worst decision of my life. I have asymmetrical odd looking eyes. I wake up with swelling in one of my eyeballs each morning, I have blurry vision in one eye (I have seen 6 different doctors for this alone) and dozens and dozens of eye floaters in my left eye. I could not work for close to 3 months because of the pain, blurry vision, and dry eye which lead to sleep deprivation. I'm also now addicted to ambien. I'm told in order to improve my appearance I need a mid face lift and a spacer graft from the roof of my mouth to place under my lower lids. I'm not telling you this to scare you. People just don't realize that my situation is a possibility. I'm only 43 and now I get this live with this for the rest of my life. Please make sure you have an honest and very reputable surgeon who has done thousands of these procedures. My surgeon did a lateral strip canthoplasty on me without my knowledge which is the cause of many of my issues. I had no idea what this was before the surgery but now unfortunatly I know far to much about this procedure. Make sure your surgeon does not perform this procedure on you! It should really only be done on the elderly with functional issues. The procedure does not last and gives out in months to years leaving their victims with droopy lower lids. It's an over used procedure that PS use. It may look good in the short term but will give out with time. I wish you the best of luck!
April 1, 2014
Denver 888, I'm so sorry to hear what you went through . I too went through a horror .
I had a life style lift with upper eyelid procedure and this doctor Robert Kagan from Elk Grove Village Illinois ruined my eyes . I have horrible scars because he did a fast and sloppy job on my face . I wish I never had this done . My anxiety has become intense and I dream about the horrible pain I endured . It was so excruciating and they lie to people and tell them that this is not an invasive procedure . It is very invasive and extremely painful . The Life Style Lift Centets are strictly a marketing business and not even a hospital setting . This is not a medical facility but a lucrative business . After they're done with you and get paid you mean nothing to them . I wish everything gets resolved for you and I wish you the best of luck .
April 1, 2014
Martuska, Unfortunately the legal system is tilted in their favor. My doctor did an unauthorized procedure on me and also forgot to suture my right eye. We need to educate as many people as possible so people don't fall victim to these butchers.
April 28, 2014
DENVER888,
Who did your surgery? I lived in Denver and had a bad experience with an oculoplastic surgeon there.
thanks,
LiveFree
April 1, 2014
Best of luck and outcome! You are going to look fabulous!
April 2, 2014
You look much younger than 50 - i just had mine done yesterday. Good luck and please post pics!
April 2, 2014
That's because I'm still 49 LOL I have 2 months until I'm 50. This is my birthday present to me. Hang in there you're going to look so good. Keep on posting pics and I'll do the same.
April 2, 2014
Wondering if you're taking bromelain too. I've been taking the arnica and bromelain. As far as I know there are no prescriptions for me so hopefully regular tylenol is good enough. Most people say there's really no pain. I actually did get tylenol pm just in case i have a hard time sleeping sitting up. Happy resting!
April 2, 2014
Just taking arnica, 1000mg vitamin C and multivitamin twice per day. I looked for Tylenol PM at CVS and it was recalled and pulled off if the shelves apparently only at CVS (according to google). I have 15 pills of Tylenol #3 left over from my hubby's hand surgery in Dec. I'm sure that will help me sleep. I've already planned to take a Vicodin on the morning they remove my stitches. I hear it can be pretty painful. I'm sure we are going to look like hell over the weekend. Just answered my phone and it was the PS office and they changed my surgery time till 9 AM because they couldn't get an anesthesiologist to come until then. Woo hoo I guess I get to sleep in a little bit. Good luck to you!
April 2, 2014
9 is great. when you said 7 i was thinking that would horrible for me, i usually sleep til 9 or later. my 10:30 was perfect but they called me as well and moved it to 11:30. i'll be starving by then. i found a generic tylenol pm at job lots $2. my son swears by melatonin. he had long flights to germany and afghanistan, he's in the air force, he took that to help him sleep on the planes. he has some in case i need it. i think my stitches will be disolvable, someone on realself with the same surgeon had hers done 2 weeks ago and he used those so no stitch removal.
April 5, 2014
I was worried about having my stitches out too. Turned out it was absolutely no big deal. Just a little pulling. No pain at all. I hope your removal goes as well. Good luck! Rest and take care of yourself
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