How to go from 50+ to looking 20+ with plastic surgery rejuvenation.

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Hautelady said:
Just had my eyelid surgery + fat transfer last week. I interviewed 3 popular US trained plastic surgeons prior to deciding with an ocuplastic surgeon. I asked all 3 if I should take prednisone as post-op (since I was able to painstakingly sourced some). NONE of them recommend it.
One said it reduces your body’s own ability to heal, suppresses the immune system and thus be prone to all sorts of infections, which he does not want to be liable with.
One said no to Prednisone but he said the anesthesiologist will already include low dose steroids to lessen the 1st few days swelling.
Luckily, mine was minimal swelling for 2 days and went straight to bruising.

So, let us not generalize that US surgeons.
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Yup, makes sense and is pretty obvious from a medical standpoint, the swelling is an immune response as the body perceives there is a wound and fills the area with white blood cells and fluid. By suppressing it, it raises the risk of infection. Likely most can get away with a low dosage for the first week after post-op without issues but some people are more prone to infections than others, have weaker immune systems to begin with, etc. and that's a liability
 
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The closure of Russian airspace has made it extremely difficult for those in Europe and the UK to fly to Asia as it now adds 4 hours to fly via the North Pole so a 12 hour flight to Korea now becomes a 16 hour flight from 2022 onwards. I am fortunate I finished my trips to Korea before covid and the Russian invasion. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/north-pole-air-route/index.html

On a positive note, all my British friends who have had revision facelifts, smas or deep plane have now had steroids postop which has expedited healing, recovery and reduced swelling. No surprise why Dr Jacono of NYC, Dr Karam of Calfornia and Dr Talei all prescribe steroids intraop or postop or both. And all patients get antibiotics too, intraop or postop or both. One friend had lateral smasectomy face and neck lift with Dr Andrea Marando and he agreed to prescribe prednisolone which she took and credits to her speedy healing and recovery. She is fortunate she learned about steroids on her first facelift at age 57 than on a revision after a facelift that dropped at 4-6 months. The doses are 40 mg or below a day which is fine for a week to reduce swelling. Steroids prescribed for longer than 6 weeks and at doses above 40 mgs may suppress the adrenal cortex. I am amazed how some surgeons are not aware of endocrinology and decline to prescribe for fear of increasing risk of infection? Or how some surgeons prescribe 20 mg of prednisolone in reducing doses to 2 mg and think this will help. The ideal dose should be 30-40 mg a day for a week, 10 days at most. I am tiny so 20 mg a day for a week was fine for me. I am now 13 months out and my face is still fine. I was prescribed 625 mg of augmentin three times a day but as I am tiny this would have led to diarrhoea and losing antibiotic efficacy so I opted to take doxycycline postop which is fab at preventing wound infections, clears the skin and only twice a day dosage.

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Hi, I will be going for PRP fat graft at Fresh Clinic consultation in March 20s. Have never been there though so a bit nervous, however the price is reasonable. I've been quoted around $3800 AUD (convert into Aud) and can go for touch up in another 3 months time. Anyone experience the fat graft with Fresh before?
 
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Just my experience, when I did upper blepharoplasty, they injected me right before surgery dexamethasone (is this a corticoid?). I wasn't very aware why they're doing this, but it actually helped a lot. Almost no swelling and no bruises, and that's extremly unusual for me. Another lady had minimum bruises.
 
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SearchingVline said:
Just my experience, when I did upper blepharoplasty, they injected me right before surgery dexamethasone (is this a corticoid?). I wasn't very aware why they're doing this, but it actually helped a lot. Almost no swelling and no bruises, and that's extremly unusual for me. Another lady had minimum bruises.
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@SearchingVline this is very interesting. Yes dexa is a corticosteroid and stronger than prednisolone. I was just mentioning how top US facelift surgeons use it to speed healing and reduce swelling for facelifts and how some UK facelift surgeons are now agreeing to use steroids for their facelift ladies. I think it was the single most important factor in my second facelift healing faster and holding now for 13 months+. Fascinating to see it used in eyelid surgery too. Glad you had minimal swelling and no bruises! I hear some ladies in Korea had sausage lid swelling for 3 months! This may have been prevented with either intraop dexa injection or postop prednisolone pills.
 
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60 is the new 30! This is icon Cindy Jackson’s motto and sounds like it will be mine soon! I can’t believe she is now 66! She spent her father’s inheritance on making herself look young from her 30s. What a coincidence as I did the same with my late dad‘s inheritance but I was 50. I found a 1996 vhs tape she had made of her secret to anti ageing and managed to watch it with a scart analog to hdmi cable as tvs are now smart and digital and wow! She was way ahead of her time. In 1996 she was advising fat injections for perioral smoker’s lines and wearing gloves when driving so as not to get ageing sun spots on one’s hands. In the video she mentions she got her first facelift in her 30s. Glad to see she is keeping her website current https://www.cindyjackson.com/services/extreme-anti-ageing/. I like her line that she gets regularly delayed at passport control by incredulous immigration officers. I just get “is this you?” And say yes and tell them to check my retina scan and fingerprint reader. Thank goodness for modern tech! Remember the time I got detained at Incheon by immigration officers and at that time spoke no Korean. That was super scary as they kept speaking in Korean to me and I desperately needed subtitles! It was no longer a k drama but a real life drama! I am at advanced beginner level in Korean now which means I can ride the metro but still too terrified to get on a Korean bus. I doubt advanced beginner level would be good enough to understand immigration officers now. I would need to be at least advanced intermediate level. lol.

She is 10 years older than I am and I have just over 3 years to go to then say 60 is the new 30 myself! lol. I met her for a face to face £200 1 hour consult at a hotel over 20 years ago but then she only advised I update my dated spectacles and hairstyle. I wanted her to give me all the names of her surgeons! Sigh. For me, it was a pointless consultation as she did not reveal names of her surgeons. She told me I didn’t need surgery. I was quite surprised as I looked 50 in my 30s. I gleaned more by doing my own research. Wow she charges £950-£1275! Maybe I should be charging too? ;)

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I found her interview in 2016 when she was 59. That’s 2.3 years to go for me then. Here she mentions Croatia as a place to go for surgery as it is cheaper than LA or NY. She has not explored Korea. ;) I love her long hair. I need to try extensions or go back to dark hair so my hair can grow long again.
 
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Wow, here is her interview in Feb 2017 at age 60! Wow! TV cameras are such high resolution; it is scary to go in front of the camera the older one gets, yet video is more realistic than selfies. I wonder what I look like now in an interview. Here she mentions she prefers getting surgery under local and not general now and had a tummy tuck under local recently. Funnily I reached the same conclusion that facelift and lip lift under local were faster to recover from. Gosh thinner hair is ageing. I need to do something before bleaching makes me lose all my hair!
 
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mlydzz said:
She still cannot go around spreading her THOUGHTS or ASSUMPTIONS as ACCURATE information when she posts them here, that's what she keeps doing. You don't know who's reading them and believing everything she's saying. She's not a doctor. At least state that it's her own opinion?????? telling people what pills to take when the other girl asked doctors and they all disagreed? who would you think is right, the doctor with many years of experience or just someone who has no medical background and only posts what she has gathered from reading on the internet thinking what works for her will work for everyone? geez. She's being irresponsible, that's what I'm trying to say.
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I am a licenced medical doctor and British ladies have only obtained prednisolone from their facelift surgeons or another doctor. I do not prescribe prednisolone. @mlydzz instead of making false accusations, why don’t you start your own thread. This thread has been a personal record of 6 years of my life’s journey.
 
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@MissOrange, do you find that after your face lift, you do not need botox?
I really wish to not use botox. I have not used it for a while, but find my forehead and eye area tensing up...if you know what I mean. As we age and we work, our tension does show on our faces and it can make one look very tired.
 
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Otto8 said:
@MissOrange, do you find that after your face lift, you do not need botox?
I really wish to not use botox. I have not used it for a while, but find my forehead and eye area tensing up...if you know what I mean. As we age and we work, our tension does show on our faces and it can make one look very tired.
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Hi @Otto8, the facelift only addresses the mid to lower face so will not affect the forehead or eye area. I found forehead fat graft took away my forehead lines so no need for botox there. When I smile, I still get crows feet but they are less noticeable as I wear glasses. I stopped using botox years ago. The last time I had botox for the crows feet was at Namu in Korea in January 2020 and it lasted 6 weeks. The price was around $50 so I didn’t mind. But I can’t afford to keep paying £160-£200 for botox in the UK for crows feet every 3 months, so just accept it. Fortunately the crows feet are not visible when my face is not smiling. But then by not smiling, my mouth is starting to have a downturned shape. I think the bullhorn lip lift creates an A shape to the mouth from pulling more centrally than laterally.
 
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SearchingVline said:
Just my experience, when I did upper blepharoplasty, they injected me right before surgery dexamethasone (is this a corticoid?). I wasn't very aware why they're doing this, but it actually helped a lot. Almost no swelling and no bruises, and that's extremly unusual for me. Another lady had minimum bruises.
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Hi there! Which Dr and clinic did you get your upper bleph surgery? Thank you!
 
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