Possible Ptosis? Right Eyelid Drooping Over the Last 5 Months? (photo)

People who've had more noticeable ptosis as they got older usually had a small degree of ptosis which  they compensated for before the ptosis become progressively worse. As a physician, a new onset of ptosis always requires some type of medical and neurologic workup. We have to rule out some possible things that can be related to with ptosis being an early sign.

My recommendation is that you bring this attention to your medical doctor or see an ophthalmologist or a neurologist. You need to bring this to the attention of a physician so that the appropriate medical workup can be done and you can rule out any of the things that may need to be dealt with before you consider doing any type of corrective procedure.

When someone has ptosis, we do something called levator muscle dehiscence or levator muscle attenuation. In this procedure, the muscle called the levator muscle has a tendon called the aponeurosis that tends to thin and sometimes detach. When that happens, the eyelid droops .  We routinely perform a procedure called the levator muscle advancement, where something has fallen back so we bring it forward. This procedure is done with local anaesthesia and light sedation so that the person can actually cooperate. With this, we can maximize the appearance of the proximity of both of the eyes in terms of contour, height and shape.

I hope that was helpful and thank you for that question.

You certainly have right upper eyelid ptosis, but as Dr. Steinsapir has pointed out, your left eyebrow is slightly higher than your right eyebrow. This indicates you may be recruiting your left brow elevator [frontalis] muscle to help you see better out of your more dominant eye.

If you operate only on the right eye, this may diminish this drive and brow may drop a bit, revealing that the left eye is also droopy. Be prepared for this possibility. An oculoplastics consultation would be helpful for you.

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While the right upper eyelid is the heaviest in the photos, there is compensatory brow elevation in both eyebrows but the left is lifted more than the right.  This suggests to me that both upper eyelid have ptosis but you compensate more for the left side which is likely your dominate eye.  You need to address with this a very experienced oculoplastic surgeon.  You can go on the ASOPRS (American Society for Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) website to find a highly qualified surgeon in your area.