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50 Year Old Lower and Upper Blepharoplasty - London, GB
UPDATED FROM SophieGray
2 months post
8 weeks & I still have black eyes in the morning!
WORTH IT
And in the evening... I have remained sleeping up on my little wedge pillow, with v pillow behind & 2 more in front of all that (semi-sitting) in all these weeks. My husband hasn't dared to complain! Not once have I lain flat - so why haven't my dark shadows gone? I look like a drug addict every morning & late every evening. There is gradual improvement every week.. & I mean Very gradual. I can cover this with concealer throughout the day. But I had hoped to do as all the other ladies do, and dispense with concealer after this procedure! I've read about iron deposits being left behind from the blood after bruising so will ask my surgeon about that at next visit (next week). I bet he'll tell me to be patient! Grrrrrrr. Any advice out there please?
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UPDATED FROM SophieGray
2 months post
Photos removed - Please message me if you would like to see any
I was quite hesitant to post a review on here as I'm really not into blogging etc, valuing my privacy above most things! However when researching what I really needed to have done to my poor ol' baggy eyes I could not have found a more valuable and helpful resource than realself and all those contributors that had gone before me! Big thank you to everyone out there who helped me firstly to make my decision at all (when I initially stalked the website!) and then to those who helped me laugh through the ugliness, discomfort, sickness, nausea, oozy yukky-ness and lumpy-bumpiness (aka "contour issues") of the whole procedure. I will continue to heal and hope it gets better and better! I'm very pleased I did this.
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L
September 8, 2016
Hey Sophie, you made me laugh lots! Hope you will still be around a bit. But once it's done, it's done and there's not much else to say!
Glad you're happy with your results.
Xx
Glad you're happy with your results.
Xx
S
September 10, 2016
Yes, it's quite sad, I'll definitely still be visiting tho, to see how everyone's getting on. Especially Sophie00 at the moment - she's spectacular! And I do like to see people's '1 year on' photos as they are useful but I'm afraid I won't be posting any myself. It's funny how this site was an everyday 'must' after the op & when healing - it really held my resolve together, kept me from panicking over details and kept my patience over healing (even tho I still have black or rather brown eyes). & I'll never forget your face disappearing down that Welsh stream, winking at you! Hope your results keep getting even better xx
C
October 30, 2016
Hi could you send me your before and after photos need my eyes doing and don't know who to trust Thankyou lisa
T
December 18, 2016
I loved reading your report even though there were no photos. I have booked up to have a upper and lowe eye job in tunbridge wells later in the new year. So worried it's under a local. Could I ask to see your photos please I will send you a private message. Tinax
UPDATED FROM SophieGray
29 days post
No hard work yet!
Had my 1 month update with surgeon yesterday evening. All is good. Had 2 pesky stitches removed from behind ears (dissolvable - huh!) which is a relief at last. My worries about neck relaxing were largely put to rest - I have large submandibular (salivary) glands there, and that's one of the things stopping me getting a nice 90 degree angle (along with age, posture, skin laxity) all of which I had been warned about before surgery (apart from the glands which only revealed themselves after the bullfrog neck and been tightened, they were hidden in those despicable folds)! At least it's not that my neck is 'on the slide' generally!
I did some drastic gardening yesterday, repeated chopping of long-arm shears on the neighbour's Russian Vine and had to keep stopping and shakily drinking litres of water (30 degrees - v unusual for UK). Definitely put strain on that new neck, silly me. Surgeon said no heavy work till 6 weeks, and this morning I have woken up with 2 lovely black eyes again... So upset. I hope these go quicker than the originals!
I did some drastic gardening yesterday, repeated chopping of long-arm shears on the neighbour's Russian Vine and had to keep stopping and shakily drinking litres of water (30 degrees - v unusual for UK). Definitely put strain on that new neck, silly me. Surgeon said no heavy work till 6 weeks, and this morning I have woken up with 2 lovely black eyes again... So upset. I hope these go quicker than the originals!
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L
August 24, 2016
Oh Eyebaglady, honestly! Extreme gardening? In this weather? With new neck, chin and eyes? Tut.
Could have been worse. You could have been outside wearing a woolly roll neck and denim jacket....
Don't worry about your shiners. They will go. I still wake up with a big puffy face most mornings. It's ups and downs, but as long as there aren't too many downs, it's all good.
I am so jealous of your bagless eyes. Even if they are black! No amount of gardening is going to make those bags come back.
xx
Could have been worse. You could have been outside wearing a woolly roll neck and denim jacket....
Don't worry about your shiners. They will go. I still wake up with a big puffy face most mornings. It's ups and downs, but as long as there aren't too many downs, it's all good.
I am so jealous of your bagless eyes. Even if they are black! No amount of gardening is going to make those bags come back.
xx
S
August 24, 2016
That's true, I did wonder about my neck stitches going 'ping' tho. The visions of the inflated frog neck will never leave me (mentally scarred)...
L
S
August 28, 2016
Getting better everyday, thank you. Still have brown bruises underneath especially in mornings. Some 'bunching' appearing at outer edge of right eye (where more work had to be done), which is a bit scary but surgeon said to gently massage with tiny circles of fingertip. Gets a bit tedious, and I did wonder whether a (gentle & tiny) vibrator might not do the job better? That is, breaking down scar tissue formation - but it'd take a braver woman than me to ask this! ...
S
August 28, 2016
Icbee, How are you getting on - you haven't updated your review for a while now. Hopefully that's because you are healing nicely and all is as expected?
L
August 29, 2016
Oh I think I just got a bit bored with saying the same old thing because actually everything has been super straightforward. I wasn't sure anyone would be that interested to be honest. I am really happy with the result: my jowls have disappeared along with the dreaded gobbler and it looks and feels very natural. I am not stretched or tight at all. The only comments I have had have been along the lines of 'you look well', although my mother spent the entire weekend staring at me and stroking her own gobbler subconsciously!
I'm not sure there's much of a market for 'gentle and tiny' vibrators (snort), but you could always ask them in Ann Summers. Might be a good excuse for buying a massive one - haha!!
xx
I'm not sure there's much of a market for 'gentle and tiny' vibrators (snort), but you could always ask them in Ann Summers. Might be a good excuse for buying a massive one - haha!!
xx
S
August 29, 2016
Lol, I wasn't thinking of a rampant rabbit for my poor little eyes though... However what did come to mind when I was doing 5 minutes of interminable tiny circles at the edges of my eyelids the other night was a TINY 'stocking filler' vibrator I saw in the Christmas display (I kid you not) of BHS a couple of years ago!! At the time I remember thinking - What use is that?! Looked like something pixies might use. IDEAL I would imagine for massaging of bunchy eyelid scars (possibly, possibly not). Just a thought...
S
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