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Facelift
I had my facelift almost 5 months ago. I wasn’t nervous about anything until I was actually in the pre surgery room waiting to go in. I started to think what I’m the hell am I doing?? The nurses gave me a Xanax to help with the nerves. Dr.Choi came in and talked to me, asked me if there was any area I wanted him to concentrate on and I said “the whole thing!”
I went back the next day to have the bandages removed, 3 days after that I had the drains taken out... that was fun- not too bad just a little stinging from pulling the tube out.
So here are some things that I’ve not seen in other reviews of facelifts or at least in the ones I’ve read. Your face is going to be numb- ears, cheeks- almost to the mouth under the neck. Doesn’t bother me at all, the only thing that did was my ears. If I rolled over in my sleep my ears would wake me up from the pain, I’m not sure why and I never asked my dr about it, I’m assuming it has something to do with the nerves. The feeling has come back now except for in my cheeks, which I here takes a bit longer.
Scars in front of my ears are healed up, being a guy and having a beard means having to shave behind my ears now and right up next to the tragus. I’ve had 2 sessions of electrolysis and one laser hair removal. Still need a few more. I’ve also had a prp facial or (vampire facial) I’m planning on having a few more of those as well. She did around my hairline and I can already see new hair growth. It helps with the scars as well. As we all know our lips get thinner with age as well so I had a little filler added.
My neck under my chin was not as tight as I would have liked so my dr, for free, removed a small amount of skin and some fat under local , he had tightened the platysma muscle by pulling it back but during this procedure he pulled it tight in the front of the neck like a lace up corset, I could definitely feel the muscles come together. I was talking to him during the whole procedure.
I slept and sleep on a elevated wedge with pillows on top of that. After surgery I also used a neck travel pillow which helps to keep our head from turning side to side while sleeping.
There wasn’t really any pain from the surgery. Now the nerves growing back is another story,sometimes it would be a sharp pain, other times just a tingling,like a feather brushing our skin.
I was really swollen in the face and my earlobes as well. It took a month or two before I could look straight on in the mirror and see my ears. The scars behind my ears go farther back than they normally would because I had quite a bit of skin on my neck that needed to be tightened . I think that’s about it for the procedure and afterwards.
I’ll add more pictures, it would only allow me to post 10.
I went back the next day to have the bandages removed, 3 days after that I had the drains taken out... that was fun- not too bad just a little stinging from pulling the tube out.
So here are some things that I’ve not seen in other reviews of facelifts or at least in the ones I’ve read. Your face is going to be numb- ears, cheeks- almost to the mouth under the neck. Doesn’t bother me at all, the only thing that did was my ears. If I rolled over in my sleep my ears would wake me up from the pain, I’m not sure why and I never asked my dr about it, I’m assuming it has something to do with the nerves. The feeling has come back now except for in my cheeks, which I here takes a bit longer.
Scars in front of my ears are healed up, being a guy and having a beard means having to shave behind my ears now and right up next to the tragus. I’ve had 2 sessions of electrolysis and one laser hair removal. Still need a few more. I’ve also had a prp facial or (vampire facial) I’m planning on having a few more of those as well. She did around my hairline and I can already see new hair growth. It helps with the scars as well. As we all know our lips get thinner with age as well so I had a little filler added.
My neck under my chin was not as tight as I would have liked so my dr, for free, removed a small amount of skin and some fat under local , he had tightened the platysma muscle by pulling it back but during this procedure he pulled it tight in the front of the neck like a lace up corset, I could definitely feel the muscles come together. I was talking to him during the whole procedure.
I slept and sleep on a elevated wedge with pillows on top of that. After surgery I also used a neck travel pillow which helps to keep our head from turning side to side while sleeping.
There wasn’t really any pain from the surgery. Now the nerves growing back is another story,sometimes it would be a sharp pain, other times just a tingling,like a feather brushing our skin.
I was really swollen in the face and my earlobes as well. It took a month or two before I could look straight on in the mirror and see my ears. The scars behind my ears go farther back than they normally would because I had quite a bit of skin on my neck that needed to be tightened . I think that’s about it for the procedure and afterwards.
I’ll add more pictures, it would only allow me to post 10.
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