Hi @Lien, I only had pain the first day Monday evening. I felt the pain was 7/10 after Tylenol. I would say make sure you have stronger painkillers with you for the first day. On Tuesday I took paracetamol and it was fine. Today I just remembered to take one paracetamol (Tylenol) so there really is no pain now. I am wearing my Amazon ice pack head wrap today and drinking lots of pineapple juice. No bruising as I wore the head compression overnight too. Today I see some swelling but am managing to keep it at bay with the ice pack and head compression bandage.
How to go from 50+ to looking 20+ with plastic surgery rejuvenation.
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Hi @Gats, there was 40 mls of anaesthetic fluid on each side that I massaged out. It gave me a full fat graft look! Lol. I was given chloramphenicol antibiotic ointment to put on the stitches. Yes I should look into silicone sheets in future. I have E45 cream to keep moisturising it when the stitches come out. Head compression really works to suppress both swelling and bruising.
Looks like Katie Price may have had a horizontal vector facelift, pulling her skin and smas towards her ears. This unfortunately may create an unnatural facelift appearance and may leave a wide scar by the ear as too much tension is placed here. The best vector is vertical to reverse the effects of gravity.
Thanks @seoulsister! I feel like a detective. Dominic Bray quoted £25k for his deep plane FL/NL, Dirk Kremer wanted £13,950 for his full smas FL/NL and in the end all I needed was Nick Rhodes vertical vector MACS lift at £3495. Less is more! My motto! To think I kept flying back to Korea for more facial fat transfers when my lower face sagged when all I needed was a definitive face lift with excess skin excision and smas lift. This is a word of warning that facial fat transfer reabsorbs in the lower face so one may need repeated top ups, threads or a lower face lift to deal with the stretched skin from fat injections. Here is my chamber of horrors and the solution was a facelift! No need to watch my diet, salt intake, fluid intake, or wake up asking myself if I would be having a good face day or bad sag face day. Those days are now over permanently just like the 2.5 cms of skin on each side that was cut away for good! Say bye bye to my ugly face days! I wish I had never tried facial fat transfer in my lower face. Ladies, fat transfer is for the upper face only.
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That's such a bad job. And look at the horrible scars! OMG.
Hi @Lien, my eczema acted up and I had to take the prolene sutures out today on postop day 3. I shall let them heal with steristrips, ie naturally. Fingers crossed I don’t scar!
My cheeks swelled yesterday evening and today on day 3 look huge. Not unexpected as post surgical swelling occurs on postop days 2/3. Then I had a Eureka moment. I recall one of Bray’s ladies saying she was given steroids postop. Steroids are great for deswelling! I was given steroids by my hair transplant surgeon years ago. I looked in my medicine drawer and yes, I have leftover steroid tablets from when I reacted to the covid vaccine. I took some just now. Stay tuned! I want to know if my face deswells super fast now?
My neck now has bruises as my compression garment does not cover my neck. I have applied arnica to the bruises and continue to drink pure pineapple juice. My mole has gone up an inch under my ear! Lol. Love this new b&a photo (see below).
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You look wonderful! And yes, your jawline is impressive! What type of anesthesia was used? Were you awake, or under twilight or general?
@catelet, OMG I will never do local again I said at the time. I would pay extra for twilight iv sedation. If you have local, make sure to ask they apply emla topical lidocaine cream to numb the skin before they insert long needles deep into your face and ear 3 times on each side. I kept pushing my right thumbnail into my left palm and holding my breath in pain forgetting to breathe. Yelped a few times. Then came the cannula which was shoved into the face 3 times on each side to flood the area with 40 mls of anaesthetic like tumescent fluid for lipo. Painful but not as much as the long needles. Just a lot of shoving sensation. Sigh. I wish there were a better way to administer anaesthetic. Surely topical anaesthetic would have helped and maybe rubbing the area while injecting? After that no pain, no pressure, no feeling and away the surgeon went doing the op. Yes awake but I kept my eyes shut as the thought of my face open with my eyes open was too scary to contemplate. His wife was brilliant. She chatted with me the whole time so the 2.5 hours passed very fast. She kept asking questions on my life story which easily fills 2.5 hours! Lol. Then I felt totally embarrassed that I had shared such personal details of me and my family! Lol. But in return they shared their life stories too. It was really nice to be able to connect with your surgeon like your family GP. I am sure the final result will make me say, okay local was fine and bring a tube of emla when I get it done again in my 60s! Lol.
Pod 4 I still have mild swelling in the lower face so have put on my compression bandage. No pain after the 1st day. Shall take another dose of steroids later today with my oral antibiotics. Switched from chloramphenicol ointment to mupiricin for better staph aureus skin bug coverage on the incision sites. There is a lot of staph resistance now but mupiricin still has 98% efficacy against staph. I had leftover from burn surgery to repair the 3rd degree burn from laser treatment in a clinic in London. Will never have laser ever again! Can’t take any chances of infection from early suture removal. Found compression on scars helps make them invisible so the longer I wear compression the better the scars. I have put gauze over my ears to protect the incision sites. I love how this garment has holes for the ears! Can’t believe it only cost £3.99 from EBay when UK brands cost £40+! It is easy to wash and reuse too. I want a small face so compression is good! Lol.
My collar neck bruises are improving with arnica. Phew. The lopsided upper lip is either from the bullhorn or the vermillion lip lift. I can correct this with lipstick after freedom day. The lesson of plastic surgery is you have to be prepared for minor imperfections.
You can see how the upper face looks young from facial fat transfer. It takes away the forehead wrinkles permanently as wrinkles are due to excess skin so by adding fat volume, it doesn’t wrinkle. As the forehead hardly moves you can just get 1-2 fat transfers to the forehead, temples and upper eyelids. It is permanent. The only wrinkles I have left are crows feet when I smile but none visible at rest but Botox only lasts 2-3 months. If your nose is too long, you may wish to consider a tip rhinoplasty to tilt the tip up for a more youthful angle but the downside is it gives you a short nose so you may have nostril show. And remember if you get facial fat transfer to the lower face, then be prepared to need a lower facelift when the fat reabsorbs in this area, especially after repeated fat transfers!
The incision at the temple is fading already as expected as my healing speeds up without synthetic skin sutures. Hoping it becomes an invisible scar. My face still needs to deswell at the sides but coming along nicely.
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Wow! You are a trooper--thanks for sharing what it was really like. It's much appreciated as I've considered fl under local as well but haven't taken the plunge yet. Hearing the actual experience from someone is so helpful. The long needle sounds pretty spooky for sure (yikes!) but you made it through and look at you now!! Your incisions look great btw. You look beautiful and I love your amazing jawline!! 
Thamks for the warning too about getting fat to the lower face--will take note; but it's great how it's lasted so well on your upper face.
Thamks for the warning too about getting fat to the lower face--will take note; but it's great how it's lasted so well on your upper face.
Dear MissOrange, I wish you speedy recovery and a great result. It is looking v good 
Hopefully you can eat what you want now without any effect to your face.
Hopefully you can eat what you want now without any effect to your face.
@seoulsister omg I ordered a kalbi dosirak with salty seaweed sheets for lunch and ate it all up without fear of big cheeks and a saggy face! Incredible. I wish I had done this sooner. Saved me suffering from good and bad days and needing to watch my weight, diet, and fluid intake. It was a crazy way to live.Dear MissOrange, I wish you speedy recovery and a great result. It is looking v good
Hopefully you can eat what you want now without any effect to your face.
I have a postop follow up on Tuesday in York as I left a cut piece of prolene in my lower left ear by accident trying to take out my own sutures. I am covering my left ear with a sterile adhesive plaster to stop me touching that ear until Nick looks at it. I think next time perhaps ask for 6 day dissolvable vicryl rapide and take antihistamines.
My face is slimmer this evening, end of day 4 with ice pack wraps, compression and lots of fluids.
Day 5 coming along nicely. Still swollen on the sides so back in a compression bandage. Last night I did not wear the compression and awoke to puffy cheeks! Best to keep wearing for 24/7 for 1 week. Here is a b&a from today.
Jan 2020 View, Namu and Girin were right to say I needed a FL. Girin wanted to add zygoma reduction and v line! Less is more.
Jan 2020 View, Namu and Girin were right to say I needed a FL. Girin wanted to add zygoma reduction and v line! Less is more.
@MissOrange Wow! You are looking good! Your nasolabial folds are gone after the FL! You look so young now! Wow!!! Do update us on your progress again!
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