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.

You are not a candidate for a facelift at this time based on the photographs, you presented, and you're only 35 years old. More importantly, is to see if you're even a candidate for elective cosmetic surgery with your chronic illness. That will need to be addressed by the surgeon and the anesthesiologist prior to any type of surgery you're going to have.

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.