Your brow lift experience sounds extremely framilar to mine.
I am a 32 year old female. In excellent shape. I had a brow lift to address my sagging brows. I have no forehead lines or issues with furrowing. I actually asked my doctor not to disable my center muscles completely. So I could still have a lot of expression.
My issues are as follows -
I am 19 days out and am still unable to move my left eyebrow. I have a good amount of movement on my right side and this is starting to become an issue when I socialize, because my involuntary facial movement is unbalanced. My doctor mentioned needing to cauterize something during surgery on the left size and felt that this may have "shocked" the left motor nerve. I saw my doctor a few days ago and he did not seem overly concerned. However, edging up on three weeks, I am worried.
I also experienced a great deal more numbness than I was prepared for. Brushing and washing my hair has become a stressful experience. The sides of my forehead and entire hairline and crown of my head remain numb. I had an endoscopic brow lift, but have long 2 - 3 inch incisions on my left and right temple area. I assume because I wanted the lift to really address my lateral brow area.
I am happy with my results. Although my brows have settled a bit since surgery. My doctor feels I will experience some additional lift as muscles and nerves continue to recover.
My questions are as follows -
What is your status now, regarding eyebrow movement and numbness?
For the doctors out there -
Is it too early to address my eyebrow movement? My doctor suggested botox treatment to tame the right eyebrow while my left side recovers. He said he would wait four weeks before doing so.
Is it possible that some of the settling that has occured will lesson once my muscles and nerves have recovered more fully and swelling has completely resolved itself? Please note my swelling is more or less all gone at this point.
Thank you!
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