I had a double eyelid surgery 3 years ago, and noticed that after my eyelids have fully healed from the surgery (and all swelling has subsided), that I now have triple eyelids. Usually in the morning, my eyes will look normal (with a double eyelid), but a few hours later, they will turn into triple eyelids. The more rested I am, the more frequent it will be triple eyelids. What procedures would I need to fix this, and make it double eyelid throughout the day?
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Answer: Creating a crisp, symmetric crease during Asian blepharoplasty or double eyelid surgery
Your upper blepharoplasty looks to have healed nicely. There is an outfold, or parallel crease on the left eye while there is an infold or tapered crease on the right. The right eye could be revised to create an outfold with or without a medial epicanthoplasty, though the question of whether the...
The amount of asymmetry that you have remaining is slight, and likely not worth the risk of pursuing an immediate revision at this time if you've already had 3 surgeries recently as one of the main risks of surgery would be for crease asymmetry of some sort to remain.
Medically this should not matter. At 3 weeks anticipate moderate bleeding, like a very heavy period that will last for 5-7 days. This may lower your hemoglobin, but not significantly. Take iron supplementation if you are vegetarian. Skin-only upper bleph under local anesthesia is a bloodless...