Mini facelift with a chronic illness? (Photo)

One thing to consider in your case would be a lip lift to help with the marionette lines and nasal labial folds. A lip lift does 4 things: shortens the distance between your nose and upper lip, increases the mucosa of the upper lip, increases the incisor show and pulls up the corners. It is done in the office under local anesthesia, takes about 1 hour to perform and costs $3,000.

Best Wishes,

Gary Horndeski, M.D.

From your photos it doesn't appear that a mini facelift is needed. You can consider Morpheus8 treatments to improve overall skin tone and texture. We also recommend using medical grade skin care products like Transform MD and wearing sunscreen every day. Further discussion of your chronic illness would needed to determine if you are a candidate for this treatment.

Based on these photos it doesn’t look like you are someone who needs a face lift of any sort right now. Combination of skin tightening procedures and fillers may be better option? In person consultation with a few plastic surgeons in the area would give you better information about available options. Hope this helps.