Sunken Right Eye After Lower Transconjunctival Blepharoplasty - Northern California

I fail to understand why people post these worthless reviews and not post the Dr's. name for the folks out here like me that are trying to decide what we should/should not do for our possible procedures.

JessieR, I just read your entire experience, and reviewed your photos. I agree the doctor over-corrected by taking out too much fat causing the under eye hollowness. Our eyes were very similar before blepharoplasty with minimal fat "bags", and we should have just left it be as looking back, neither of us looked "bad", and I did have friends tell me that I didn't need the surgery, but I thought they were just being kind and trying to make me feel better about my looks as friends often do. I've looked into my options and recourse and it is extremely discouraging at the difficulty in going up against a cosmetic surgeon if your face is not actually maimed for example: the tear trough being pulled away from the eye causing constant dry eye or something to that extent. I've done some research on my city's government/court website and I watched a video of how court claims work and it scared me because I didn't want to lose and end up paying all the court and attorney fees for everyone. I keep thinking about signing the waiver that states I am aware I may not be satisfied with the outcome of surgery; however, I was not given information about the possibility of severe wrinkling due to left over loose skin, and I believe the doctor should have warned me about that. When I asked questions about the waiver the surgeon simply said that was just a precaution and not to worry that after the thousands of bleph surgeries over 20 years he's never had a severe complication. At this point, I am exhausted and just trying to find inner peace and take a break from this perilous journey. I am still coming on here though and reading all comments; taking any suggestions into consideration; and trying to be supportive of others in similar situations who've commented on my reviews such as yourself giving any information I can to aid them in their process. That leads me to my comment for you, as I believe I had fat grafting (my surgeon called it repositioning fat) as my surgeon took the fat that he removed from under my eyes and positioned it along my orbital bone under each eye to give me a smooth under eye appearance (it did not happen that way, but that was the intention). As you can see in my photos and read in my review, the fat newly positioned on the bone under both eyes formed “bags” (lumps) so I was told to massage the fat daily to flatten it out and it did on one eye but not the other giving me a fat lump (new bag). But, in your case I would look into fat grafting as a permanent fix for the hollowness under your eyes as having a thin strip of fat placed along the orbital bone did fill in my tear troughs (the crease from the inner corner of the eye diagonally down between the eye and the nose) as my tear troughs were very deep (it just left me with a bag like I said on one side). My surgeon was positive that I would end up with a hollow appearance if he did not graft the fat into the tear trough. My surgeon was also aware of the possibility of over-correction, but, in my case, my surgeon may have been too conservative leaving me with severe wrinkling due to the loose skin that remained after the fat had been removed (the opposite of your result). Although I am glad he did not remove too much fat, I wish he would have warned me that I was facing the possibility of wrinkling, as I would have reconsidered having the bleph and definitely spent time researching that outcome. I most likely would have found that wrinkling from too much skin under the eye is somewhat common, but I was completely unaware of this possibility. In your case, you doctor was also fully aware of the importance of over-correction and yet he did it anyway so I believe you have a fairly good chance at getting a judge to award you your money back. You said you wanted to PM me so please feel free to do so if you have any information that you do not feel comfortable sharing via commentary that may be useful to me.

I agree with workalltheyime. The pictures are not helpful either. Boo!

At 3 weeks the shadows are probably just blood and will disappear in a month. The eyes heal at different rates so you can expect some assymetry and uneveness until about the 4th or 5th month. As for the crater - what happens when they take out the fat is that the area where the upper cheek meets the under eye area looks different. Sometimes they recommend a cheek lift but I don't think you need one. Overall I think your eyes look pretty good for 3 weeks. I had upper and lower one year ago and it took five months for me to feel normal (no dry eye or aching). At one year I am happy with the results although I do think he could have taken a tiny bit more fat off my under right eye towards the ear. I'm just happy he wasn't over agressive. Please be patient and wait for a couple of months (I know it is hard!!) and don't jump in to something too quickly. It takes months to heal and a full year to see your final result...

It looks like some bruising to me. Try not to panic just yet, Jessie.

Dear Jessie,
I had my uppers and lowers done 13 weeks ago, and they change dramatically from one month out, to three months out. Be careful about having anything "fixed", read Dr. Meronk's website, and all the posts here before you have more done. I can NOT go very long without ointment in my eyes and/or drops. My eyes ache and are so dry, it is so painful. I sleep with saran wrap, mask or tape every night to keep the eye lenses moist, and the eye lids. I massage them with vaseline or vitamin E oil many times a day. I couldnt drive for 6 weeks due to amount of ointment that HAD to be in my eyes so that I could even OPEN them without pain. Seek 3-4 opinions before you do ANYTHING to them....This was the WORST thing medically that has ever happened to me. A car accident that left me in hospital for ONE week and almost dead at age 23 was NOT as bad as NOT being able to SEE and being in pain 24/7 for 13 weeks. I dont't know if it was the LASER, the Doctor, or BOTH.

dear Jessie, although it is at the up-most important to be happy with your results, i have to be honest when i look at your before and after pictures i do see quite an improvement,especially when i see your 2.5 week mark compared to your before surgery view 1, and just remember two things one being that when your in dim or dull light that capture shadow it always makes things appear worse then they are in other lights, and although we all wish they could..plastic surgeons cant make miracle happen. remember this is just what i see in your pics but in the pictures that u posted some are blurry, so maybe im just not able in the pics see what u see..can u post a few different pictures?

how are you doing now?

I did the same thing only worse! I got a botched facelift too. I agree completely with everything that you're saying. I wish every day to wake up and this expensive disfiguring nightmare would be over and I would look like I did before.