How long before a facelift surgery do you have to get off hormones??

If your procedure is preformed under local anesthesia and oral sedation you do not need to stop your hormones. However, facelift under general anesthesia is associated with more complication such as DVT that can be exacerbated with hormones. I have performed well over 2,500facelifts under local anesthesia with oral sedation for the past ten years. Withoutdoubt it is safe and well tolerated by patients. Compare to the traditionalfacelift procedures that are performed under general anesthesia, the postoperative complications associated with local anesthesia cases are lower andrisk of bleeding is minimized. Please visit our website to become more educated about various anesthesia options for facelift surgery.

If you are on a regimen of hormone replacement therapy, you do not need to discontinue them prior to a face lift, in my opinion.  Some surgeons may ask you to stop them to reduce the risk of vein clots.  You should do whatever your surgeon recommends.

In my practice we do not routinely advise the patients to stop hormone
therapy. Patients on hormone therapy are thought to have higher risk of Deep
Venous Thrombosis during surgery. There are many ways to mitigate that risk in
most patients, such as selection of proper anesthesia, proper positioning and
other anti-thrombotic devices. But the most important factor is choosing the
right surgeon that will keep the surgery time within a safe limit while still
performing all the necessary surgical maneuvers to achieve the optimum
result.