Years of Sadness Due to Eyebags - Prague, CZ

Very emotional time. But time is what we need. You are still early post op. Good luck and try to avoid the magnifying mirror, just stresses us more. Take care.

Did she cut the undereye bags out on your undereye skin. Way below the lash line? Is that what the scar is under your eye? If so I have never seen that before? I'm sure the scar will fade, and a small scar is better than a bag, right? Your upper eyes look great!

Thanks ladies. Time is moving so slow! Xx

I think you look fantastic! Give it time and stay positive :-))

The swelling is the worst. It can take up to two weeks to settle down. I just went through this and you can't judge the outcome at all. It takes at least a month before you get a idea of how it might look. I know it's hard to be patient but that's the only think you can do.

It looks on your before photo, that you had festoon bags. My PS told me they were the hardest to do anything about. He said the only way to get rid of them was to cut them out like your surgeon has done. However you are left with two scars under your eyes. That's better than a bag, right? The scars will fade, and you can try to cover them with makeup?

How are you doing?

Friends, I know it is a VERY hard time. Why? We are people who are very conscious about our appearance, then on top of that our surgeries make us look like monsters....for a time. I had lower blepharoplasty and was in a complete panic for 3 months after. Lower lids drooping, chemosis (watery eyes), scleral show (lower lids flipped outward--pretty!) I looked absolutely scary, had to hide, wore "fake" glasses at work. The scars were red/purple for months. Then, I paid $Thousands seeking an expert opinion for help. He monitored me but said we would have to "wait and see." Guess what? I wasted a ton of money--he did absolutely nothing except tell me to massage my eyes and tape to support lids. Now I look just fine. Not perfect, but WAY, way, way better than the first 3 months post-op, and better than before my surgery. It's so scary because you think "My God, will I ever heal from this, will I ever look normal againl?" because it takes sooooo long for this delicate area to heal....slowly. The bad thing is the doctors never tell you how long it will take to "look normal." They give you the ideal scenario but that's rarely the case UNLESS you get internal lid incisions rather than external (I got external, the "old school" way to save $, regretted it big time). If you have the procedure done with external cutting rather than internal cutting to your lids it makes a HUGE difference in healing time and brusing/swelling. It will cost you less to get cut on the outside but you heal way faster and better getting internal incisions, and there's way less risk of disfigurement getting the inner lid incisions too. God bless, take care, hang in there. Time, time, time.

Awesome!!

You should be really happy, you look great

I think you look good now ...more improvements will come. Eyes take longer to heal so hang in there and try not to worry.

Look great in this picture but I wish you could upload a clearer picture with no makeup.

you look amazing!!!!!