Since I had the surgery in 2015, it’s been about 7 years from now. I had the surgery near my neighborhood at a place that had a pretty decent reputation for simple procedures like Botox, fillers, and skin-related injections. At the time, I didn’t go because I wanted to have surgery. It started with my aunt and mother suggesting, “How about at least getting a consultation?” After the consultation, I think we made a reservation right away and I went into surgery the next day. I really had no will or thought about surgery at all, but during the consultation they said I had severe ptosis and that surgery was absolutely necessary, so I remember ending up doing it because there was no other choice. (The adults said they had just thought of it as double eyelid surgery when they had me get the consultation.)
At the consultation, I remember being told that the distance between my eyebrows and eyes was narrow, and most importantly, because my ptosis was so severe, I needed to think about ptosis correction first, never mind double eyelids. The double eyelid line that remains now was created because, since I was already correcting my eye shape, I asked them to make a line if possible. They said the epicanthal folds at the inner corners of my eyes were very severe, so correcting them with a canthoplasty would make my eyes more comfortable, but because I have a nasal bridge and the distance between my eyes isn’t wide, I was told that medial epicanthoplasty could make my eyes look too close together, so I didn’t proceed with it.
I personally really thought I would be fine without double eyelid surgery, and I only got the consultation because I was encouraged to just try consulting, but after the consultation result was, “These eyes need improvement for medical purposes, not cosmetic purposes!” the elders’ eyes widened, they booked right away, and starting with forehead Botox that same day, I immediately had eye surgery.
Looking only at the outcome, it’s true that aesthetically it looks better than before I had eye surgery, and it’s also true that my drooping eyelids were corrected and my field of vision widened, but I can’t say there are no side effects at all.
I just live thinking, “It’s the price of surgery!”
To mention a few inconveniences after surgery:
1. For about 2-3 years after surgery, my eyes did not close completely. Since correction was done through an incision, they had informed me before the surgery, but in reality my eyelids really did not close properly, so symptoms of dry eye appeared much more than before. Because of this, eye discharge and similar issues became much more noticeable than before. If I didn’t consciously squeeze my eyes shut tightly, other people would say it looked like I was sleeping with my eyes open, or that they didn’t know I was asleep ^^;;
2. A distorted line due to surgery that did not take my tissue characteristics into account. It isn’t to the point where I feel I need revision surgery, but compared with the line from the initial surgery, it has definitely changed into an uneven line. I also think this is probably a problem that would not have occurred if the surgery had been performed with professional attention to my tissue characteristics, eye features, and the line I originally had. My left eye is an in-line crease, and my right eye is an out-line crease. On the right eye, the in-line crease disappeared more and more toward the inner corner, and now even if I consciously try to find the previous line and apply double eyelid glue, the line ultimately loosens into an out-line crease. But because of that, I’m often told it looks so natural that people don’t even suspect I had ptosis correction or any other procedure. In fact, people are surprised when I say I had double eyelid surgery....(Is that a good thing...)
3. Sebum secretion along the operated line Before, I had eyes without a crease line, so I had never experienced sebum appearing on my eyelids or sebum being secreted like blackheads or whiteheads, but after surgery, around the incision area, at the spots where the stitches passed through? in the holes? sebum is regularly secreted, and sometimes I can feel it when I touch it with my hand. I manage it like whiteheads or blackheads, and if it seems like sebum has been secreted excessively, I squeeze it out too, but on days when I’m excessively tired or when sebum is really overproduced, it even affects the double eyelid line.
They aren’t major problems to the point of considering revision surgery, but of course it’s not that they don’t bother me at all. If you do decide to have surgery, even if it seems like a minor surgery, I’m leaving this long post because I hope you will research carefully and not do it impulsively.
Oh, and most people recommend hospitals with CCTV, and I agree ^^* Because I had the surgery under local anesthesia, so I heard and remember everything that happened in the operating room, but objective records can serve as evidence no matter what situation arises. If I get the chance, next time I may talk about proxy surgery that happened in the operating room and the conversations they had. Please make sure to check whether there is CCTV~
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