I'm a 42 year old female, and for at least 10 years had mild drooping of the left eye. Its become much worse and now my right brow is drooping. My vision is blurry, but the optometrist said my eyes are healthy. My eyes feel heavy ALL the time. I feel like I struggle to keep them open. Its just uncomfortable. My aunt needed surgery because her vision was being impacted,so I guess this is genetic. I'm not sure if insurance would think it's surgery worthy.
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September 13, 2022
Answer: Brow ptosis...not sure about eyelid ptosis
A.J. Amadi, MDOculoplastic Surgeon, Board Certified in Ophthalmology
Hello. First of all, you have a severe ptosis, so in order to compansce this, we raise your eyebrows very much and asymmetrically. Since your eyebrow will fall after this surgery, the procedure to be performed is 1. idealizing your eyebrows (eyebrow surgery), 2. ptosis repair and 3. upper eyelid...
An eyelid crease is formed in a normal eyelid by the attachments of your levator aponeurosis to the muscle and skin of your upper eyelid (orbicularis muscle and skin). In the presence of a congenital ptosis, the crease will be poor or absent because of the poor pull of the levator muscle. In...