I had ptosis surgery on my left upper eyelid 10 days ago. I have two concerns. I am having double-vision and blurriness in the eye. This does not seem to have improved over the past week. When I use both eyes, I see normal. With the left, I see double (ghost images). Is this going to be permanent? What causes this? I am not happy with results of the surgery. I dont see improvement, and possibly it looks worse now. Can any doctors please comment based on the pictures attached.
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This is a difficult surgery in adult. Congenital Ptosis surgery can create exposure of the eye and dry eye resulting in discomfort and tearing or the Ptosis is still present and lower than the other. There is no perfect solution. It's always a compromise. Use artificial tears...
No one is symmetric and sometimes it could look one has droopy eye.
You should be evaluated by a board certified plastic surgeon or oculopastic surgeon
It depends on the type of surgery he had, but it looks like he had a frontalis sling procedure based on the immediate post-op photo. With that type of surgery, when your son is not using his eyebrow muscle to open the eyelids, the eyelid will still seem droopy. The goal of the surgery is to...
