Once upon a time I was on realself looking around and eyelid doctors ... at this time I was inexperienced and didn't know what to look for. I was basically looking for the cheapest doctor in the gta because I thought making eyelid incisions isn't hard. I would sit at home and make my own crease where I would want it to be and I thought a doctor would just have to make a cut there and then my eyes would have a higher crease. Kind of like having eyelid glue or eyelid tape there to keep the crease there. But anyways I was considering going to Korea but I never traveled there and it seemed like too much work and too much planning. I never experienced this type of procedure or knew anyone who could tell me anything so I decided its better to goto a Canadian doctor. After searching on realself I found a dr in Barrie who offered it for $2000 I was happy and saw a review from some old lady she looked like she got butchered but her eyes turned out ok. My mistake was that I should have compared more characteristics between me and her. I was nothing like her, I was young and had different eye anatomy and skin. Long story short I went through with the procedure and was sweating buckets. This guy couldn't find the muscle he was looking for in my eye and was telling me while he was digging in my eye and I started to bleed over to my other eye and it erased his operative markings. So he ended up eyeballing the crease for the second eye and kind of rushed everything because he literally took like 4 hours. This doctor used ancient epicanthral methods and gave me nasty scars between my eyes. And uneven eyelids. I guess you get what you pay for. I feel like no matter how much research u think you've done, and then you've made your decision to the best of your ability, sometimes it's not enough. Because at that time I thought I spent countless nights scouring realself and looking around before making a decision but this was the outcome of my decision. After this I had a long recovery full of emotional distress and depression. Asking myself why I did this to myself. In the end I lived with it for few years and finally decided I'm now brave enough to maybe try it again (the surgery is so scary) and I'm hoping I don't turn out worse then what I am now. I have great confidence in my surgeon. (Even though he's not Asian... I just don't feel comfortable flying to Asia and having translators talking to me or someone not understanding me and they're all up in my face trying to fix me and I'm just stuck with finding out how it turned out after). Luckily the first surgeon gave me a partial refund back for his botched work. I really wanted to make a review on him but it's not worth it to remember such a time in my life.
I hope this doctor fixes my wrinkly uneven eyes!
Updated on 9 Jan 2017:
Hoping I just get normal looking eyelids and not come out looking worse then my original situation. Not looking forward to the long waiting process to see the final results (up to one year)
I defiantly came out with very noticeable uneven eyelids in the first surgery (and the doctor says to wait to see final results... yup still uneven) so hopefully my incisions for this surgery are more even with each other.
Still don't quite understand why they have to open your eye up and play around with the muscles inside... I'm so scared. At this point I already have eyelids maybe just making it have no wrinkles is my number one priority.
One eye looks more natural Asian the other eye has a higher crease ... I was left with having the best of both worlds but I do prefer the natural lower crease.
Doing this surgery awake and sitting in a chair while they cut into your eyes was so much anxiety. I came in very brave and not expecting to be scared... but I was sweating buckets and couldn't even talk to the first doctor while he jokes about nonsense. I rather have a serious doctor... just joke around w me after when you don't have a knife in my eye.
Updated on 15 Jan 2017:
Sad results... only reason they came out uneven was because the first eye he was working on started to bleed heavily, he had trouble finding the muscle he needed. The blood oozed over to the other side and he wiped away his markings.
Really dislike it when a doctor would say wait for the final results.. when you can clearly tell as soon as the operation is over that it's gone wrong.
Updated on 15 Jan 2017:
Hopefully more even and the hide the new and old scars well
Def not looking forward to healing process all over again ... and the dreadful waiting for the end results. 1 year only flys by when you have wonderful results... and seems like decades when it's ugly af
Updated on 18 Jan 2017:
Surgery was a breeze I thought it would take 4 hours like my first surgery but this was less that an hour probably. The experience is totally different when you goto a specialist. He has all the equipment and everything to make you feel comfortable I wasn't even anxious or scared at all.
-meet up to talk about what I want exactly again, showed him my wish pic
-paid for my procedure
-went into operating room changed into operating shirt and laid on the table
-got hooked up to heart monitors and blood pressure machine ... it was at 70
-not quite sure the order of what happened next but the doctor came in to inject the iv in my arm for light sedation
-marked my eyes, put on surgical face cover which had tape all around my face and then eye blockers in your eye (this really helped with anxiety, u don't get to see a thing so it's not scary)
-from here you can hear snipping and hear the stitching and once in a while he'll tell you to blink or open your eyes
-after stitching he rips the all around face tape, n iv and all the monitor stickers
-get dressed and the lady walks you back to the office for a sit down
-she gives you extra strength Tylenol and the doc talks to you for a bit ... but I totally forget what he said because I'm freezing and kinda loopy
-they put ointment in your eye so you don't even get to see your results right after (guess it's better so you don't complain or freak out when you see your face)
-this is what I looked like right after the procedure before leaving
-both eyes are different (expected because both eyes were diff to begin with)
-I noticed my right eye had trouble opening during the operation when he asked me to open them it felt like it was struggling... so it came out kind of droopy/lazy
-the other eye has eyelashes over projected sticking out
Pain: it was painless, you could feel like restrictions like can't move ur lids or face and why would u want to you can split ur stitches open or something, you can feel soreness later when it gets more swollen.
Updated on 18 Jan 2017:
Swelling looks more even eyelids look like sausages
After care is very tedious : putting cold compress on it all the time for 3 days straight, putting ointment in your eye and on the incision 3 times a day for 7 days, makes you blind for 7 days. Definitely cannot see anything... spending most of my time listening to shows. Def need someone helping you there's no way you can put ointment in your eye yourself. Visibility is like looking thru extremely stained glass (can only see blobs and colours)
Updated on 18 Jan 2017:
Incisions def look more even can't wait for final results
Updated on 26 Jan 2017:
1 week later - remove stitches but one eye wasn't healing well so had to keep them on for another two days
Today was removal of stitches and was getting concerned because it looked like I was getting suture tracks (the dots that turn into scars) .. same troublesome eye is also not closing while blinking only (closes when I do close them) and because of not completing a blink; its dry. But doctor says it will continue to get better n turn back to normal - better not be spreading around hopes and dreams. The other eye has flared out lashes because he tried to lower the crease so I guess that needs a lot of skin n etc idk. So I'm left w flared lashes ... hoping that calms down I do not want uneven eyelashes too.
Waiting to take the stitches out was long, now waiting for it to heal will feel like decades
Doctor advised to continue using the ointment on and in my eye for another week .... omg! Great...
Updated on 26 Jan 2017:
Looking better then before
Updated on 29 Jan 2018:
Now