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It is unlikely that marijuana smoking will affect your eyelid healing. However, I would still not recommend it. Your judgement may be affected with marijuana use and you may do other activities that MAY affect your healing process. Lay off the reefer for a couple of weeks.
It probably has little effect, but why chance it? Healing well is important and it is not merely the active ingredient of the marijuana that is inhaled. Find a plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs hundreds of eyelid surgeries each year. Then look at the plastic surgeon's website before and after photo galleries to get a sense of who can deliver the results. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
Marijuana will not affect the way a lower lid blepharoplasty heals. Even patient sitter heavy cigarette smokers will really not suffer wound healing consequences with lower eyelid surgery.
I recommend that my patients avoid smoking anything for 3 weeks after surgery- the smoke can impair oxygen delivery to your tissues which you will want to optimize to achieve the best scarring.
The short answer is they do not mix well. I would avoid if at all possible in the peri-operative period. The fact the question has been asked here suggests this is a possibility! Good luck.
Preoperative pictures and an exam will be necessary to sort this out. The ptosis may have not been recognized preoperatively. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
Let me start off by saying that most of us have facial asymmetry. So you are the norm rather than the exception. Secondly your eyelids are quite youthful an attractive, and I would not recommend ANY surgery as whatever surgery that you do will likely leave you looking less natural than you do...
This may just be swelling and laxity or extra skin can be assessed at a later date. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
I would recommend a brow lift or Botox to lift the brow as your brow position is barely at the supraorbital rim. This will open the eye a great deal. In addition, you may want to consider facial fat grafting or filler to the tear troughs. You need to find a...
The area that you have highlighted with the two arrows demonstrates prolapsed orbital fat. That is the fat that should be around and behind the eye, but as we age, slowly pooches forward into the eyelids. You are correct in that occasionally, that area may also become more swollen. That...
Sometimes the medicated ointments can cause conjunctival irritation. Still this can be normal for this stage after surgery. I suggest an assessment by your ophthalmologist to determine the cause of the discharge.
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