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Eyelid surgery can be performed under local anesthesia. It is not a painful procedure. Most patients do not require pain medication postoperatively. Be sure to have your surgery performed by a board certified surgeon with expertise in eyelid surgery.
In our practice, we place patients to sleep under a brief general anesthetic for patient safety and comfort. The surgery is performed in a licensed and certified outpatient surgery center , and the anesthesia is administered by a board-certified physician anesthesiologist. The fatty deposits around the eyes in both the upper and lower lids, have deep proprioceptive pain fibers that don't numb up well to local anesthetic. The fat pads when removed, can be quite painful during the surgery. After the surgery, there is usually very little pain associated with either upper or lower eye lid surgery. In our practice most patients take only a few pain pills for the first day or 2 after the procedure.
Dear Gingirica,Thank you for your clinical posts and photograph. Although difficult to tell from the photograph a small soft tissue lump like that can represent a small collection of blood, soft tissue, cauterized tissue, internal suture or even a small displaced lobe of the lacrimal gland. All...
The short answer to your question is yes. Howevedr, you need to see an Oculoplastic surgeon to determine whether this is the best solution for you. There may be better solutions.
Stitch marks on the eyelids generally fade over time. Overall, the eyelid heals exceptionally well, but you have to give it time. In general, we like to say that it takes about a full year for an incision or cut to heal. If you had debris in there that wasn't cleaned out fully, that might leave...
