Hi everyone, I am so happy to be reading about your experiences. I wanted to peel back about 10-15 years to match my lifestyle and decided to do it fully and all at once. This was my 65th birthday present, (April 2) Always loved myself in photographs, even up to several weeks ago. I am at day 11, having had the surgery April 26th. The eye surgery was easy, already healing very naturally, as well as the manuvering under the check to be higher and fuller. The lower neck jaw line however, is similar to what others have described, very tight, tender, (but becoming less tender), swollen! Cannot move yet from side to side easilyand ugly as sin to me. Some stictches and the staples in head are still still in. I will see my PS tomorrow to have more stitches removed. My lower numb face, jaw line is attachment to half numb ears, it's scary. I am watching the changes each 12 hours, bruising changing colors to yellow, some of it disappearing, but the lower face, oh my goodness, I hope it does not take 12 weeks to look normal, but I just evenutally want to look normal. I do understand it might feel numb but that is acceptable. I have been lucky in that I am uncomfortable at times but no pain. I took 2 oxycodine every 6 hrs then after about 7 days I started taking 1 every 4-6 hours. Now I can go way beyond 6 hours to take one. I feel like "the fly" head for those old enough to remember that movie. And how about Bride of Frankenstein. Well, I took a perfectly lovely face with some age appropriate wrinkles and went under the knife (7 hour surgery) and I just hope that all goes well and that I have not distroyed a perfectly lovely life.
