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• Posted to Hate my Hollowed Eyes After Blepharoplasty - New York on 23 May 2013

  Except in my case it's more like 4 x bitten… yeah, I'm a real glutton for punishment I guess. I'd like to say that I've finally matured into a skeptic now. I can't say I disagree with you. I used to joke to my friend that we couldn't of done any worse then if that's what we setting out to do. That's 7 doctors between us that were quacks. Some were highly praised on the boards too. I think it comes down to the point of once you mess yourself up and especially this kind of eff up your done and it's time to accept some reality. I wanted to believe the BS though and it cost me big time. Maybe like holloweyes said about a safe solution will be offered one day.

• Posted to Hate my Hollowed Eyes After Blepharoplasty - New York on 23 May 2013

  Holloweyesafterps, you got that right and I got mine in 2008. No excuse for me. Me and friend would say the same thing. We were NOT looking to be changed in any way. Just look refreshed. Yeah, because we all know that taking fat out from around your eyes is just so damn refreshing. Not. Who knows what the future holds for us though. No we will never go back to what we had. Improvement that's safe as you say is the name of the game from here on out. Btw. repositioning fat comes with it's own risks too. I know 2 people that lost all their under eye fat from doing that.

• Posted to Hate my Hollowed Eyes After Blepharoplasty - New York on 23 May 2013

  Yeah, really. I too am glad that I didn't get any big health issues because of it. We all know that there are plenty of people that do. I've always wondering why so many refuse to stay current. I really think it comes down to money. They would have to get retrained and figure out how to keep their business going at the same time. Well, the answer to that is easy. Just don't think about. Put those blinders on and think about your retirement one day. Hey I'll believe anybody...with proof. I've heard quite a bit about Dr Young though. He gets talked about quite a bit on some of the boards. However, it's mostly just people like you asking about him more then anything. I like what he's doing though with fat and implants on his website. I've also watched him do FT too. He's someone that at least gets the principle of restoring faces. He doesn't remove fat but either lifts the cheeks a bit and/or uses fat to augment the eye area. Like I said before. We got into our mess because of volume loss or sagging muscle. His analogy of turning a raisen back into a grape is classic too. He's also from my neck of the woods or where I used to live anyways. I'm originally from Seattle Wa. Not exactly a reason to pick someone but what the hey. I didn't really see where he talked about fixing anyone from too much fat removed though. Funny thing on my search to find him I came across this. If you go to the bottom it's a less then steller review about him using resty for under eye hollowness. I wonder if it really makes any difference who you go to for that. At best it's a crapshoot IMO. http://www.realself.com/find/Washington/Seattle/Facial-Plastic-Surgeon/Philip-Young.

• Posted to Hate my Hollowed Eyes After Blepharoplasty - New York on 21 May 2013

  Forgot you can't do paragraphs. Sorry got to remember to keep it shorter.

• Posted to Hate my Hollowed Eyes After Blepharoplasty - New York on 21 May 2013

  Sounds like we (jammer72, normanfancy) think allot the same and probably at about the same stage of recovery. I had to learn the HARD way though. I just wish I had that "intuition" that Jammer speaks of. I was just too damn trusting back then and believed too much of the BS that I heard from these guys. I like Realself but their sure seems to be allot of false hope being sold by guys who aren't nearly scrutenized enough. It's more fantasy land then actual medicine. Jammer, I go to the gym and work on my health and well being now. Something I should've done before I looked at plastic surgery as an answer. Your right about the muscles playing a key role in our faces. Our problems stemmed from volume loss and/or muscle slackness. What your doing may not be an overnight fix but nothing worth while ever is. I always say to my friend. Look at the cause…not the effect as the problem. Most plastic surgery just deals with the effect. Normanfancy, I think that far too many get into Plastic Surgery for all the wrong reasons. Like you say they want that Beverly Hills life and that's a life that's not cheap. Money complicates doing the right thing unfortuently. They make terrific salesman but that's about it. Of coarse that's the dangerous part for us. You have to be able to see through it. I too am shocked at how little most of these guys know about lower blephs. There's so many simple ways to avoid problems but they just put the blinders on and it's full steam ahead. I just wish I had found some docs who could be honest with me just once. Of coarse I didn't as we all can probably attest to. I ended up spending 3x the original cost of the bleph with fixes. I also have a friend that ended up spending almost 7 x the original lower bleph cost with fixes and is now very unhappy. Not to mention the extra emotional and physical tole it takes on you. That's years you'll never get back. I had my bleph in 2008, FT in 2009, and fillers in 2010. I'm just now starting to accept the fact that there's not much that can be done and to accept myself as I am. Logically, I tell myself to just forget about it and learn to like myself and I'm getting there. In the back of my mind I still hold out hope that one day I can do something about it. The technology unfortunetly really just doesn't exist at this moment in time. Maybe one day so who knows. Lastly, I'm hearing the others here and I won't tell you not to do it. Just be VERY careful with revisions and don't just accept the "no problem" you hear from too many of them. Rarely will they be honest about their skill level. Research it like your life depended on it and you better be talking to actual real people (with your exact issue) who did it themselves praising it up and down. Of coarse good luck with that.