Hello. I'm 24 and had a lower lid surgery on the 30th of April, 2015. My first 7 days were the best so far. Even as early as the third day, I had people from within my family tell me that they can already see the results. That might have led me to become a little too eager to celebrate. After a week I had started to smoke/drink regularly and have been for the last week. Now, the swelling is back and my eyes look worse than pre-op. Have I done permanent damage or simply delayed my healing?
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First, you are much too young to be considering surgery at this point. You have a combination of two factors causing the discoloration below your eyes. The first is your natural somewhat olive skin tone and the second is the visibility of blood vessels just beneath the thin skin of...
I advise you to avoid steroid injections to the scar unless it starts to get lumpy. Steroid can make the skin thin and atrophic and then the vessels will show through excessively. Most eyelid scars end up doing very well. Silicone gel scar treatment (a very small amount of gel) may help the scar...