After surgery, for about a week I slept without being able to close my eyes. I didn’t know what the cause was, and even after a year had passed, depending on how much I used my eyes, I intermittently could not open them because of eye spasms caused by shock. As time went by, at some point I became unable to walk around with my eyes looking straight ahead, and I adapted to walking around with my eyes lowered. It was hopeless, but even that forced adaptation mechanism kept progressing. However, before surgery they said one month would be enough, and although that may differ depending on the surgeon’s skill, even after half a year the scarring and swelling were so severe that I could not close my eyes in front of others.
What is disappointing, though, is that while the patient is suffering, no explanation is given at all about the mechanisms behind these side effects, such as pain, tightness, glare, and inability to look straight ahead. Also, about one year after surgery, the pain was continuing, so I asked whether this was really a normal recovery process, but because of the hospital system I had to go through the counseling manager (nursing assistant). I was met with one-sided rude remarks, and they pushed ahead trying to schedule a removal surgery that should not be done arbitrarily on their own without the patient’s consent and without a doctor’s judgment. Even when the manager changed, I received manual-like and AI-like messages that still had the previous manager’s tone. It seems like the director gives that kind of authority, so the director can always take the attitude that they are never at fault.
When I visited other clinics, they said that what this clinic had told me was impossible was all possible, so I decided to have surgery. Even after a year, the muscle in my eye was clumped round like a chalazion, and in the early stage I wanted a consultation for recovery, but the director consistently said, “I heard everything from the manager, and there is no problem,” so everything was handled carelessly~~~ and the golden time was missed.
Before surgery, I thought all the distinctive bent eye shapes in the surgical reviews were like that because of swelling, but I ended up like that too, and that depends on ptosis correction skill... I’ll stop here.