Should my Neck Hurt So Much After Neck Lift?

Thank you for your question. The tightness does fade after a week or so.  The swelling unfortunately goes the way of gravity, and winds up in the neck.  This tends to pass in a couple of weeks, and faster if you wear a compression garment around the chin/neck area. I hope this helps.

hello no more wattle  While each patient is different, as a general rule, patients can expect to recover from their necklift in about three weeks. You should visit or contact your PS about this concern. #pain #discomfort

After an operation patients experience different grades of pain.  The pain is a relative symptom and it differs from one person to another, but after a neck lift, it is normal to feel tightness as if you are being strangled because of the shaping of the muscle in the neck.  Abnormal symptoms that may be the cause of pain as well is any fluid collections or any discoloration of the skin that may cause some of the skin necrosis, although there are various complications that can happen and may also cause pain.  Those are things that your plastic surgeon needs to rule out.  Other than that, discomforts, tightness are normal symptoms after a necklift.