Forehead Reduction - April 2018

My surgery is next week with Dr. Dudas in San Francisco. He's the Dr. that took over Dr. Kabaker's practice. I'm surprised not a lot of people left reviews about him on this site and that's why I decided to leave one cause I really wanted to see results from other people that went with him. I met him for a consult about a month ago, he did most of the hairline Lowering with Dr. Kabaker before he retired and took over the practice. He measured me at about 9-9.5. He is very sweet and seems to know what he's doing :)

My surgery is booked for April 12. I am very nervous and scared but I try not to think about it and keep myself busy. Everyday i feel like picking up the phone and cancelling but then I tell myself that I might regret not going through with it cause I really want it.
I'm mostly worried about hair loss just like most people, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed everything will go well. I'm very active and maintain a very healthy lifestyle so hopefully that will help me in recovery.
Will keep you posted...

Before the surgery started Dr. Dudas measured me at a 9 and told me he could get at least 2.5. I told him I was good with 2.5 and that he could go up to a 3, what ever he thought looked good enough during the surgery. He was able to get 2.7. I also asked for a little brow raise while he's at it....
The first 48 hours after surgery were brutal, I mean really rough. I did not expect it after reading most of the reviews here. I was nauseas the whole time, couldn't keep anything down, not even water. So because I was vomiting the painkiller I was in pain. I hardly slept the first night.
Called Dr. Dudas at 11 pm and asked him to call the pharmacy for anti nausea pills. Sent someone to pick up the prescription at 11:30pm at a local pharmacy. Couldn't keep down the anti-nausea pills as well :( . I think that maybe my system was not tolerating the painkillers cause once I stopped trying to take them the nausea went away.
About 8 hours after surgery I began to develop a bruise under my eye, or a black eye in other words. I didn't have anything while I was there and only saw it in the evening. I think if I have iced the area right away when i got to my room I could of maybe prevented it, or some of it. But I wasn't thinking about it.
IMPORTANT- Ice a lot after surgery even if you don't see any swelling or bruising in the beginning!!!
So I'm on day 4 after surgery. I still have a big black eye but I'm currently taking Arnica pallets and using Arnica bruise cream to try and get rid of the bruise. I feel much much better and my appetite is coming back. I took my first shower yesterday and tried to get all the gross stuff out of my hair as gently as possible but there are still a lot. I'm gonna do it slowly every other day till everything gets out.
So far I'm happy with the results, hoping the bruising will go away fast. Today I went to buy a full cover concealer to try and camouflage the bruise a bit. The sales lady asked me if everything was ok at home :)

I took the stitches out 2 days ago. The scar looks good, still healing.
Top of scalp is numb but it's not that bad. When I looked in the magnifying mirror I saw baby hairs starting to sprout out in front, Yay!!! :)

I'm still taking the multi vitamin that the Dr recommended I start before surgery, I'll probably stop with it next week cause I usually don't take Multi-viatamins.

I'm taking Evening Primose oil soft gels, I took that regardless before the surgery and will continue to take it (Taking the Sports Research brand)

Drinking carrot juice everyday (if you can't get carrot juice load up on carrots) - I know everybody says it's good for eyes but it's also great for hair growth, loaded with Vitamin A, read up on it...

I also eat one red bell pepper everyday, red peppers are very high in Vitamin C which is also crucial for healing. They have a lot more vitamin C then oranges.

I will wait one more week before I start styling my hair and will post more pics.