Eye-Lid Lift Anyone?

[oh-eve]

okay, so I had my eyebrow lift and there is no FREAKING difference. NONE.

I initially went to the plastic surgeon, requesting an eyelid surgery for my sagging upper eyelids. He recommended an endotine eyebrow lift instead. I requested another meeting before the surgery because when I use my fingers to pull up my eyebrows, it doesnt move the eyelids. Again, he said, eyebrow lift is the way to go. He said I will see a significant improvement.

Well, 4 weeks after surgery and still - NOTHING. I am going in today for a check up. But I told him 2 weeks ago already I am not happy. He says he sees a difference. uhm, no.

He said I need to wait 90 days before we can do anything else.

We did not discuss payment but I am angry, I am absolutely not spending any more money. I think he should do it for free because he refused to do what I wanted and what he recommended did not work out.

Thoughts?

[PilgrimsProgress]

Originally Posted by oh-eve

okay, so I had my eyebrow lift and there is no FREAKING difference.
Well, 4 weeks after surgery and still - NOTHING. I am going in today for a check up. But I told him 2 weeks ago already I am not happy. He says he sees a difference. uhm, no. He said I need to wait 90 days before we can do anything else.

Don't panic! I agree with the doc that you should wait at least three months. I was going to suggest six months. He sees the healing process on his patients so knows how it will generally progress. There is still a lot of swelling of tissues that you can't see.

Worst case scenario is after six months you will have to watch all those 'eye makeup for hooded eyes' youtube tutorials!

[oh-eve]

Originally Posted by PilgrimsProgress

Don't panic! I agree with the doc that you should wait at least three months. I was going to suggest six months. He sees the healing process on his patients so knows how it will generally progress. There is still a lot of swelling of tissues that you can't see.

Worst case scenario is after six months you will have to watch all those 'eye makeup for hooded eyes' youtube tutorials!

I don't mind waiting a few months. But I don't want to let him go away with it - surgery with no results is not acceptable. And I really don't want to pay for it again.

And there will be no slow progress - it will not get better, it is what you see. My upper head is still numb and possibly swollen but the eyelid will not change when the swelling goes down.

update: so I just had a consultation. He cannot do an eyelid lift because my eyes are unique and there is the bone too close and he could only cut 3mm and this would not make much of a difference. He said he can do a touchup brow lift and I said "the first one did nothing, what makes you think the second try will do more??" he came up with a bunch of excuses and I said "so you are telling me I spend money for nothing and you cannot do anything to make it better?".

I am considering going to one of his coworkers for an "initial consultation" under a fake name (there are several locations and surgeons working under that one name) and see what they say they can do and then I tell them that I actually JUST had a surgery.

[PilgrimsProgress]

Not seeing your eyes this is only a guess. When everything settles down, see a good makeup artist and ask about shaving your eyebrows and drawing them on just above your natural brows or arching them higher. You could use very light eye shadow on the lids and a medium brown shadow on the bone to make it visually recede. No heavy eyeliner but maybe wispy lashes placed at the outer third. I wonder if that would visually open up the eye area.

Maybe try long bangs that fall partially over your eyes.

I would look for celebrities with similar eyes to see what they do. Perhaps they play down their eyes but play up their lips with bright lipstick and gloss.

[DJKB]

Oh no. I was curious, without removing any access skin, as to how much of a difference this surgery would make. That's terrible, I wouldn't want to pay either if I didn't look any bit different.
Sounds like he's feeding you a load of bull. Is there an ocular specialist you can consult with?