Difficult lip lift recovery: wound dehiscence, swelling and nose.

Honestly, for those with really long philtrums this is not the type surgery you do once but it’s also not the type of surgery you would want to do twice. My lips have dropped SO much it’s unbelievable. I’ve been left with a terrible scar so this surgery really wasn’t worth it for me at all.

My scar is no longer white and has darkened so it is less visible. My scar hasn’t gotten thicker at all which I’m really pleased about because I was terrified I was going to end up with super thick hypertrophic scar. The sides of my incision still haven’t closed up, at this point I can definitely this scar will probably not heal closed. So it’s looking like the only thing that can fix this is a revision or else I’ll have to live with permanent holes in my face :(.

I would say my nose itself had returned to its original size but my nostrils still flare more than they use to. I’ll probably wait until a year and a half before I get a revision because I’m scared of how much a second surgery would affect my nose, my mouth would probably be more triangular and the chances of scarring again is pretty much the same, so it’s like is there really any point?

My surgeon gave me a steroid shot last week, my scar was so thick it was resistant to the needle. There is only some improvement on the left side, none in the ride side. I will probably go back for another shot in May.

My incision still isn’t closing up. Honestly don’t know what to do anymore because the scar is one thing, but the holes can’t be hidden.

Nose: My nose still hasn’t gone back to its normal size, but it has settled down a lot more since my last post. I actually no longer hate my nose, the side profile of my nose actually looks better and straighter than it did before.

Lips: My lip has dropped quite a bit which is really disappointing, I really hope it doesn’t drop any further. Other than that, I love the shape of my new lips. The only thing is when I talk my lips does have this weird bunny/triangular shape.

Scar: in my last post I had several bumps due to internal sutures and some of the bumps turned out to be abscess. I did see my surgeon after this and he popped the abscess and dug out the remaining stitches. This did help significantly as my incision is now more flat. Thankfully I didn’t get a hypertrophic scar (which is what I thought I had but it was just abscess and bumps due to the stitches), so I can easily cover the scar with makeup. If you look closely I do still have some holes in my incision hopefully they will heal. But the scar is still so extremely visible and since it’s not hypertrophic I’m not quite sure what my scar treatment option will be. Im scared to get a revision because there’s risk of scarring again. Im totally devastated at the fact that I’m one of the very unlucky few to be left with such a bad scar :(.