“Prolonged Swelling”

After Restylane, one under eye gets very swollen at times, seems to happen with salty foods too...do you think it will ever go down...I do not have any wrinkles there, I did have a couple of lines...now no lines but regular swelling....

Restylane to the lips for lip wrinkles, not augmentation. Wow, that hurt. Even with the so called block, that hurt and still, after 2 days is swollen, (Howdy doody, Donald duck) sore, hurts like crazy, and looks like a pincushion...I read all the blogs and went ahead and did it...desperate to look less severe, now a little sorry.

Dear Mother8, In my experience, the swelling associated with Restylane injections will go down within a week. I have also found that Juvederm seems to cause less swelling than Restylane. In the lips, that extra swelling may be very apparent with Restylane. In the nasolabial folds, the extra swelling is much less obvious. Applying ice may help. As far as the pain goes, some docs are using some very potent topical anesthetics (much stronger than BLT) to the lips to help with the pain. Although it is off label, a lot of docs have been mixing local anesthetic into the Restylane immediately before the injections. With this combination, most of my patients rate the pain of the injection as a 1 or 2 out 10. If your lips are still too big (duck lips) after a week, you may need to consider treatment with Hyaluronidase to remove some or all of the Restylane. Michael Sinclair, MD www.epilution.com