Has anyone had an eye lid lift?

I’ve had it done both ways. I had no problem with having it done in the office with just a local. It was a revision of the blepharoplasty I had a couple of months earlier. It wasn’t quite perfect, so the doctor fixed it in the office. I saw no need to have the whole sedation thing again. Mainly, because I was completely awake when I had it done in the hospital with light sedation. Something happened to my drugs. Lol.

I also had my first blepharoplasty quite a few years ago with deep IV sedation. Not general though.

I didn’t find the numbing injection that painful, but I have had Botox. Lol.

Good luck. I would do it again with no hesitation.

Thanks.

I have never heard of this being done as an office procedure. It takes about an hour and a half in an operating room by a plastic surgeon. I would worry about an office procedure.
I was going to have it done, but developed very dry eyes after cataract surgery and the eye lid surgery can make your eyes more dry, so Dr advised against it for me.

@drummergirl, Good points. I should explain how mine came about.

My first blepharoplasty was done by a board certified plastic surgeon in his surgical unit with an anesthesiologist and nurse. IV sedation and I was out. He did both eyes upper and lower lids.

Fast forward about 14 years. I developed Ptosis. You couldn’t tell I had had my upper lids done. I had it done by a board certified ophthalmologist plastic surgeon in a major hospital operating room. Supposedly had IV sedation, but I never went to sleep. Was aware of everything going on and even asked for more local cause I was hurting. Lol. She lifted the tendon in the eyelids to pull them up. She removed more skin as well. This is really what I needed the first time.

After I was healing, it became obvious the left eye wasn’t quite right and so she adjusted the tendon in my revision surgery in her office with local.

I agree that the surgery either caused or exacerbated my dry eye. If warned would I had done it? I’m not sure.

@drummergirl, Good points. I should explain how mine came about.

My first blepharoplasty was done by a board certified plastic surgeon in his surgical unit with an anesthesiologist and nurse. IV sedation and I was out. He did both eyes upper and lower lids.

Fast forward about 14 years. I developed Ptosis. You couldn’t tell I had had my upper lids done. I had it done by a board certified ophthalmologist plastic surgeon in a major hospital operating room. Supposedly had IV sedation, but I never went to sleep. Was aware of everything going on and even asked for more local cause I was hurting. Lol. She lifted the tendon in the eyelids to pull them up. She removed more skin as well. This is really what I needed the first time.

After I was healing, it became obvious the left eye wasn’t quite right and so she adjusted the tendon in my revision surgery in her office with local.

I agree that the surgery either caused or exacerbated my dry eye. If warned would I had done it? I’m not sure.

I’ve had it done both ways. I had no problem with having it done in the office with just a local. It was a revision of the blepharoplasty I had a couple of months earlier. It wasn’t quite perfect, so the doctor fixed it in the office. I saw no need to have the whole sedation thing again. Mainly, because I was completely awake when I had it done in the hospital with light sedation. Something happened to my drugs. Lol.

I also had my first blepharoplasty quite a few years ago with deep IV sedation. Not general though.

I didn’t find the numbing injection that painful, but I have had Botox. Lol.

Good luck. I would do it again with no hesitation.

I have had the procedure done twice. Presently I am have a new procedure. It is 4 treatments done with radio frequency for my lower lids. $2000 out of pocket but painless and appears to be working