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Correcting ptosis or "droopy eyelid"

 
 
Reply Sun 18 Apr, 2010 10:54 pm
I'm a 22 male and fairly positive I have ptosis in one eyelid as it's more droopy or lower than the other eyelid. I had surgery when I was a toddler and the doctor corrected it some but I still feel self-conscious. I don't remember anything, but the doctor told my parents that getting another surgery might cause some permanent damage. As is, the ptosis eyelid doesn't fully shut when I sleep so one eye is partially open (creepy!) but more importantly it's hard for me to maintain eye contact longer than 3 seconds.

Is there another treatment for ptosis or a droopy eyelid that doesn't involve surgery? Some kind of creme perhaps?
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Reply Sun 18 Apr, 2010 11:14 pm
@brokencdplayer,
I have this, not exactly the same as yours.

Mine also involves "dry eye" or blepharitis, and you likely do not have either of those.

I find my eye that has this happening has varying vision (and so do my ophthamologists find that to be true). I often, but not always, find it helpful to use hot water on a washcloth to press quite lightly on my eye, several times in a row a few times a day. This has to do with the lipids that pass through the eyelid. But that is for my problem, and maybe not yours.

First, let me push that you see an ophthamalogist, an md with a specialty re eyes - not an optometrist, but a m.d. specialist. Personally, I go to a university eye clinic.

I may be having surgery on my lid muscle in a few weeks. I'll post here if I do.
Just search under osso eyes - I have a few threads accumulating eye crud, and I'll try to post back here.

Your ptosis may be - likely is different, but I wish you'd see an ophthalmologist..
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 18 Apr, 2010 11:39 pm
@brokencdplayer,
Actually, cd, I am not at all sure your situation is equivalent, with all my piles of pros and cons. I am thinking you could have a little muscle tweak and be better, as you don't seem to have underlying eye problems (guessing). Eye surgery has advanced. I had a scary one last December, a big deal, and it turned out well.

You can go for surgery or not, but I'd investigate it.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 18 Apr, 2010 11:49 pm
Who labeled this as plastic surgery? A droopy eyelid can be a cosmetic matter but in serious cases is not. Are you trying to get me to swear? Try holding your lid down all day, the de facto thing from 4 surgeries and describing what you see? Speak up so I can yell at you.
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