Brow surgery recovery

[Stottie Girl]

For any girls who had brow reduction surgery, how long was the recovery? How long did the bruising take to not be visible?

It is the one ffs surgery I am really wanting but it looks like I would have to go abroad and am wondering how much time to factor in before travelling home.

[Courtney G]

I'm following this because I'm having the procedure done in a little over 4 weeks. As I understand it, the first week is horrible and things start to get considerably better from there. Some folks are able to present themselves reasonably well by the end of week two, albeit with some residual swelling and some discoloration that migrates down from the surgery site.

There are quite a few timeline videos out there.

Of course, healing varies from person to person. I typically heal very quickly, so I'm hoping that's the case, but I'm older and that could work against me.

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

I'm having type 3 brow bone reduction,  rhinoplasty, upper blepharoplasty and temporal brow lift in Turkey in March. One night in hospital and total 2 weeks stay. I'll be back at work after that but very light desk work only for a few weeks. It takes a couple of months to look reasonable as far as I I've heard. Six months to pretty much healed, up to a year for everything to fully settle to final look.

I'll post pics once I'm out of surgery and look like I've lost a battle with a tiger!

Charlotte 😻

[Stottie Girl]

Thanks for the info.

Very exciting times for both of you! Keep us posted!

I've never had surgery of any kind so I am interested in the outcome and the experience.

[Lori Dee ✅]

Thanks for the info.

Very exciting times for both of you! Keep us posted!

I've never had surgery of any kind so I am interested in the outcome and the experience.

I have had a few surgeries, but I slept right through them. No big deal.

🤣

[Stottie Girl]

Lol, good one!

[Courtney G]

I have had a few surgeries, but I slept right through them. No big deal.

🤣

Yeah, my rhinoplasty surgery was a breeze. Waking up with my nose jammed full of packing and staying that way for a week wasn't so much fun.

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

Yeah, my rhinoplasty surgery was a breeze. Waking up with my nose jammed full of packing and staying that way for a week wasn't so much fun.

I'm dreading this bit as I can barely tolerate having a blocked nose from a cold! Also never had surgery in my life. It'll be interesting for sure and on a foreign country.

[Courtney G]

I'm dreading this bit as I can barely tolerate having a blocked nose from a cold! Also never had surgery in my life. It'll be interesting for sure and on a foreign country.

I got mine done and then revised, about 6 months apart and it's crooked!!! And my septum wasn't fixed properly! I'm supposed to have a THIRD revision later this year (by a different doctor, of course).

Not to scare you, though. My surgeon lied to me and should be fined for malpractice.

[Stottie Girl]

Yikes! That's not good!

Yeah must admit the thought of surgery to the nose doesn't sound to much fun. But you gotta do what you do to look good! Strangely, peeling my forhead back and going at it with a bone saw doesn't seem to bother me! ha ha!

I'm lucky in that I have quite a feminine nose (same as my mums and two aunties) so don't need that doing. I'm not sure how I ended up with that nose, none of the other male mmbers of the family have it genetics are weird!

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

I got mine done and then revised, about 6 months apart and it's crooked!!! And my septum wasn't fixed properly! I'm supposed to have a THIRD revision later this year (by a different doctor, of course).

Not to scare you, though. My surgeon lied to me and should be fined for malpractice.

Oh no...sorry to hear that you had such a rough journey. I hope that you can get it sorted very soon and that your next surgeon is better.

I'm a bit worried as I've not seen any examples of my surgeons forehead reduction work. But they have written papers on it. If the pictures are genuine then I think they can do the rhinoplasty ok, but still nothing is certain.  It's a leap of faith tbh!

[Stottie Girl]

Oh no...sorry to hear that you had such a rough journey. I hope that you can get it sorted very soon and that your next surgeon is better.

I'm a bit worried as I've not seen any examples of my surgeons forehead reduction work. But they have written papers on it. If the pictures are genuine then I think they can do the rhinoplasty ok, but still nothing is certain.  It's a leap of faith tbh!

I would have thought the brow reduction is harder to get wrong. They are just removing, replacing and rounding off the bone rather than forming a new structure and messing with cartlidge but any any surgery has it's risks I suppose. Unsurprisingly I'm not an expert mind!

[Courtney G]

Yikes! That's not good!...

...I'm lucky in that I have quite a feminine nose (same as my mums and two aunties) so don't need that doing. I'm not sure how I ended up with that nose, none of the other male mmbers of the family have it genetics are weird!

It's ok. I inherited the larger, humped nose that all of the (Italians) on my mother's side have, and I broke the chain by having my nasal bone cut and reset. That was the "win." Now, to get the rest fixed up.

So great that you have a feminine nose! One less thing to worry about.

Oh no...sorry to hear that you had such a rough journey. I hope that you can get it sorted very soon and that your next surgeon is better.

I'm a bit worried as I've not seen any examples of my surgeons forehead reduction work. But they have written papers on it. If the pictures are genuine then I think they can do the rhinoplasty ok, but still nothing is certain.  It's a leap of faith tbh!

Thanks!

Mine has been kind of the same. Studied and practiced at reputable facilities, under one of the better surgeons out there. Has been published several times. But he only showed me a few photos (which looked great), pointing out that he was trying to find patients closer to my age. It concerns me, but I need get this done.

Let's hope this leap of faith works for all of us!!

[Dawn Kellie]

Most of the surgeries I've had were needed because I said what's the worst that can happen. 2 knee surgeries and 2 rotator cuff surgeries later. I know need 1 more knee sur6and 1 more rotator cuff surgery. 
All that to say no surgery is easy to recover from

[Stottie Girl]

ooof, I hear knee surgery is particularly painfull to recover from.

[Dawn Kellie]

ooof, I hear knee surgery is particularly painfull to recover from.

It wasn't replacement just a scrape and sew. I was walking the same day. The rotator cuff was miserable.  I spent the first few months thinking it was the worst mistake ever. I dread the possibility of doing it again

[Stottie Girl]

My mum broke her arm at the ball joint and had to extensive physio on the rotator cuff after the bone healed she said it was excrutiating. I feel for you! Hopefully you will be better for it in the end though.

[Dawn Kellie]

I hope. Just knowing what to expect makes it far more unnerving

[Tills]

I flew home from FFS, including orbital rim reduction, after 7 days which was a big mistake.

The difference in reduction of swelling was astonishing. If I could post the Day 1 and day 7 pics you'd be amazed but I don't think you can upload photos here? Even so, I should not have boarded a long flight so soon after the surgery. My inner ears hurt like hell on the flight and I was taken to hospital as a precaution with a sharp pain in my calf and given an anti-DVT injection.

xx

[Tills]

I would have thought the brow reduction is harder to get wrong. They are just removing, replacing and rounding off the bone rather than forming a new structure and messing with cartlidge but any any surgery has it's risks I suppose. Unsurprisingly I'm not an expert mind!

Well ... I'm no medic but my understanding is that parts of the cranial surface are extremely thin and the sinus cavities sit right behind, sometimes the barest millimetres away, so they have to be extremely careful not to break through.

FFS was the best decision ever for me but the surgery was brutal. 9 hours under General Anaesthetic and wow I looked a mess for a few days. Head was like a basketball.

The biggest problem though was personal. A friend flew out to Bangkok to sit with me after I came out of surgery and be around afterwords. Great, right? The problem was that I then grew dependent on her presence and when she flew back on Day 5 to be with her 20-something daughter, who had kicked off about it, I was left in a miserable state.

It sounds churlish but I'd have been better off sticking to my original plan of having an English-speaking Thai nurse with me at nights ( @warlockmaker has contacts in Thailand for this) and then heading to a Thai place for further recovery.