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Eyelid surgery explained by someone who had it: what an upper and lower blepharoplasty fixes, what it leaves alone, the recovery week by week, and how long it holds.

Blepharoplasty, from the tired reflection to the settled result.

Stitches and settling

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The bruising, the dry eyes, the stitches coming out, and the slow final result.

The surgery is quick; the settling is not. This section holds the middle: the swelling that peaks on day three and looks alarming, the gritty dry-eye weeks, the morning the stitches come out, and the slow discovery that the eyes keep improving for months. Post your day count and someone here has stood exactly at it.

The timeline nobody quite spells out

If one message earns repeating here, it is that the eyes are judged far too early. Readers describe puffy, uneven, watery eyes at one week that had settled into something they were delighted with by week six, and the two sides routinely calm down on different schedules. The site's week-by-week eyelid surgery recovery and the guide to dry eyes after blepharoplasty show what each stage normally looks like.

The same patience applies to the scars and the crease. The fine upper-lid line sits in the natural fold and fades over months, and an early crease can look higher or harder than the one that settles, as covered in blepharoplasty scars and the eyelid crease.

Patience has limits worth knowing, though. A lower lid that is pulling down or showing white below the iris, pain with lost vision, or anything that is getting worse rather than better is a same-day call to your surgeon, not a wait-and-see post.