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Double Eyelid Suture Lumping Side Effect + Poor Aftercare Response

This wasn't recent, but around 2020 I had double eyelid surgery. Since double eyelids are so common, I thought it wouldn't be a big deal and had surgery with the same surgeon my close older sister had used. To list the things I was dissatisfied with during the process, including the side effects: 1. Right before going into surgery that day, when the doctor finally marked the design, I could tell they were drawing in a really half-hearted way. The line and height were slightly different from what we'd originally discussed, and without even checking with me first, they drew everything however they wanted. (There's more context to this, but I'll record it in more detail in a later review post.) 2. This is about a side effect. Right after the double eyelid surgery I was satisfied and went on with life, but about two years later, blood suddenly seemed to gather over the double eyelid line, and the skin above it turned red and swollen upward with pus? As the days passed it kept swelling and started getting bigger to the point that it was clearly visible. I was scared at the time, so I think I took several progress photos every day. Later I went back to the clinic and told them about it, and I heard that the doctor who had operated on me had already left that clinic. The head doctor said he would squeeze out the pus, so he laid me down on a simple operating table in his office and spent quite a while pressing it out. Then about three years after that, the size of the suture lump has shrunk compared with when I first went back to the clinic, but even now it is still there, small enough to be seen when I close my eyes. I don't pay a lot of attention to it, so I have just lived with it, but I think people who are sensitive to this kind of thing probably wouldn't be able to tolerate it. What feels even stranger is that the close older sister who said she had surgery with the same doctor developed the exact same side effect around the same time as me. If I had known that from the start, I would never have gone to that doctor. But her case was worse than mine, and because of that suture lump one side of her double eyelid line completely came undone, so she even set a date for revision surgery and had double eyelid surgery again. I don't know where that problem doctor ended up working at some other clinic. 3. But there was another thing I really disliked when getting aftercare for the side effect above. Before the head doctor squeezed the pus from my eye, a nurse had already given me a local anesthetic injection, but strangely, during the pus-draining procedure, I could still feel the pain as if they were literally squeezing bare flesh. It hurt so much that I wondered if the anesthesia had even worked properly. I thought something was odd during the procedure, but I had only a gut feeling, so I let it go. Then suddenly, right after the doctor finished draining everything and left, I felt a nausea I had never experienced in my life. I've never had severe anemia or dizziness before, but all of a sudden the world felt like it was spinning and I had this strange feeling that I was about to faint there. I grabbed my head and shouted, "Ah!" (I'm naturally introverted, so unless the pain is really bad I usually just endure it, but this time I genuinely thought I was going to die, so it was pure survival instinct.) The nurse was startled and asked what was wrong, so I told her I felt really nauseous and dizzy. Then she told me to sit in the recovery room next door for a bit, so I sat there in that bizarre, spinning, nauseous state, right on the verge of passing out. My guess is that the local anesthesia they gave before the procedure had not taken effect while the procedure was being done, and only started working after it was over. That would explain why it hurt so much as if I hadn't been anesthetized at all, and why I felt nauseous the moment it ended. But it was definitely just a tiny local anesthetic around the eyes, so I don't know why my body reacted that strongly. Since I have no way of knowing how they actually did the anesthesia, it leaves an even worse feeling. This is why anesthesia-related medical accidents seem so scary. I think I really was lucky that nothing happened to me. Looking back, I'm glad nothing major happened. I said I was suddenly dizzy, so I ended up sitting down, and that was fortunate. But at that clinic, both the doctor and the nurse acted as if, since the procedure was over, I could just go home, speaking as if nothing were wrong. Doesn't that mean they were planning to send the patient home without even realizing there was a problem with their anesthesia? Anyway, even the final response from the clinic was lacking in some way, and it stayed with me as a bad memory.

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