Blepharoplasty questions please

Jupiter6
on 1/8/10 1:32 pm - Near Media, Pa- South of Philly, NJ
Upper and lower bleph x2,Fraxel repair (useless) and a lower face lift.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair
6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.  
 Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 
12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty 
(plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10
 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      
Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

slowgoing
on 1/8/10 11:08 am - CA
Whoa, Jupiter:  I thought that middle pic was a joke at first - that's no joke!!  Egads, quite scary.  Did you have the same Dr. do your revision?  Why did you lose some vision and was it permanent???  Why did you even NEED a revision, if I may ask?  You look LOVELY in the final pic, that's for sure, retouch or not.
Jupiter6
on 1/8/10 1:31 pm - Near Media, Pa- South of Philly, NJ
The lower bleph still left tons of hanging skin and it was revised. It's still baggy (I photoshopped it) but I'll live.

The revisions were performed by the same doc. Tried Fraxel repair first which did literally nothing.

No one knows why I lost my vision-- may have just been aging but a coincidence. I never wore glasses, now I cannot see a magazine without them.

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair
6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.  
 Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 
12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty 
(plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10
 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      
Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

Jupiter6
on 1/8/10 1:41 pm - Near Media, Pa- South of Philly, NJ

To answer your other questions:

Would you do it again?  Yes, but would have chosen an eye specialist.

Did you have to have general anesthesia?  I was awake through the whole deal.

What was recovery like? I was at the mall 2 days afterwards.

Did you have to take narcotics? Only to sleep.

I would not have *any* plastics until close to goal.
 

 "Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert  Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--  
     Emergency Bowel Repair
6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U.  
 Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 
12/08 
     Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09  -Dr. Pontell, Media PA  Mastopexy/Massive 
     Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty 
(plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
      6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10
 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
      
Total Cost: $33,500   Start wt: 368   RNY wt: 300  Goal wt: 150   Current wt: 148.2  BMI: 24.7

beemerbeeper
on 1/9/10 10:24 am - AL
Thanks for the info.  I have decided to forgo the bleph for now and just do some filler and botox and see if I can live with my fatty droopy upper eyelids.

You've been a huge help in my decision making process.

Becky


BethinSeattle
on 1/8/10 1:55 pm - Federal Way, WA
I had my upper lids done as a lone procedure by my PS over a year ago.  I wished I'd done it years ago.  It took 20 minutes in his office surgical suite under general anesthesia, but since it was such a short time under compared to other procedures, I wasn't anywhere near as groggy as other times.  I went home with ice packs on my eyes.  I had some bruising but I went to a MLB baseball game 4 days out and wore sunglasses.  Bruising was completely gone within a week.  I think he might have given me a script for vicodin, but I never bothered with it.

I really don't think my weightloss had an effect on my eyelids at all.  They'd always been droppy (almost doubled over and touching my lashes). 

I have to really look for the incisions..  I can see a bit of one edge on lid, but no one else looking at them even closely can find an incision line (even the woman who has been doing a monthly facial for me for the last 5 years).


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