56 Years Old, Hated my Double Chin and Baggy Jowls. - Layton, UT

I've seriously wanted to have my neck and double chin dealt with for 20 years. I could just never justify it until now. I had a consult with Dr. Bitner and he suggested a facelift, as well as a hairline brow lift (which he does for free!) and SMAS lip augmentation with tissue taken from the neck. I am currently at three days post op and am posting photos of before as well as my first three days. Right now I am swollen and tight but have very little pain. My lips feel HUGE but the doctor assures me I am going to be very happy with the end result. I am already so happy with my jawline. I know I will look a whole lot better in a few weeks and just need to be patient. I will change my review from "not sure" when I am further along in the process and see the finished result.

Still very swollen, but don't feel that I look quite as grotesque. I have very dark bruising on my neck and around my eyes (which is kinda funny, since I didn't have my eyes done!). I have only taken 4.5 pain pills since the surgery, and nothing since night 2. I am really not in a lot of pain . . . everything just feels really, really tight. It's hard to eat and swallow. I am VERY excited about my jawline. Even with all the swelling, I can tell that I am going to like the end result. I can't wait for the swelling and bruising in my lips to go down. Every before and after pic I looked at of lips on Dr. Bitner's site were all very natural looking and no one had duck lips. I just have to be patient. In fact, the nurse told me that a month out I am going to wish they were a bit bigger. We'll see about that! Hopefully tomorrow's pic will be much less swollen.

Well, it is day 5. I had hoped to wake up to a significant decrease in swelling, but to no avail. Still swollen as ever, and my bruising now contains every color of the sunset. Luckily, Dr. Bitner's nurse did a great job preparing me for the psychological aspects of recovery. Buyer's remorse? Check. The blues? Check. Thinking my lips are monstrously huge? Check. I just need to remember that this WILL resolve and focus on the positive . . . and there are a lot of positives. Dr. Bitner did extensive lipo and muscle tightening and skin excision on my neck, so it's gonna look WAY better no matter what. I will try to find a pic that shows just how bad my neck really was. The forehead lift has already worked wonders on my eyes, and I think the fact that my forehead is no longer a foot long will be great! I am in minimal pain; really, I'm just more annoyed by how tight my neck is. I have resigned myself to the fact that I'm not going to be ready for a public appearance by Christmas but, really, it's just another day. There will be many more.