| While rates of healing vary widely and can sometimes be a source of worry, the final result is what matters most.
One of the biggest problems about recovery from cosmetic eyelid surgery is that your face and eyes are always on display. Not only does this high visibility allow you, your friends, and your family to monitor (and worry about) every little change, but it also makes the process seem to take longer.
Initial Healing
Expect to wake up on the morning after surgery, study yourself in the mirror, and then seriously question why you even considered doing such a thing to yourself.
Swelling can be extreme, and sometimes it may feel as if your eyes will barely open. Fortunately, improvement is usually rapid. Once you are upright, gravity will help to drain some of the swelling down into your cheeks. Blinking helps to "pump" away some of this initial inflammatory swelling that builds up while you are lying flat.
Over the first few days, you may feel that your cheeks resemble those of a chipmunk storing acorns, and the bruising may discolor your swollen cheeks all the way down to your chin (although, both of these extremes are uncommon). The difference between eyelid bruising and most other bruising is that the eyelids . . . |
