Healing progress for Graves’ disease upper eyelid retraction surgery (photos)

You are still in the healing period. It usually takes 3 months for full healing. Communicate with your surgeon. Adjustments or additional treatments are possible if necessary.

It is truly humbling surgery.  This is one surgery where you really can't be in a hurry.  You have a compensatory right eyelid elevation. This makes the asymmetry look worse.This truly needs time to heal before making a conclusion regarding the out come.  I recommend patience here.  These eyelids need to heal 6 to 12 months.

Hi there. Greetings from the UK. It's too early to tell. Upper lid retraction (lid lowering) surgery is well tolerated but unlike ptosis (lid elevation surgery) doesn't offer the same degree of predictability. There is still opportunity for YOUR left upper lid to slowly elevate even though. Looking at your pictures I think the left upper lid looks pretty good. YOUR right upper lid is mildly retracted and you have what we call in the business,  temporal flaring consistent with primary upper lid retraction from thyroid eye disease. So I'd say that you left upper lid looked pretty good now. No left upper lid lowering surgery hasn't caused your left lower lid be pulled down further as they're independent. What you're seeing there is either the left lower lid being pulled down (retraction) due to scarring of it's tendons (inferior retractor fibrosis), perhaps pseudoretraction (due to the left eye looking up slightly - left hypertropia), we sometimes see it following recession surgery to the inferior rectus muscle, apparent retraction due to the left globe being pushed forward slightly (proptosis). I'd talk to your oculoplastic/ orbital surgeon who's looking after you as these are complicated concepts which are best explained in person in the clinic following a thorough orbital and orthoptic examination. Opinions based on frontal photographs and a limited history in your case may be more confusing and be unhelpful in the long run.