Are there any natural ways for me to get rid of my under eye bags?
I’ve tried everything.
Also my eyes water a lot.
What does this mean?
Thank you for your question!
You submitted a single photo and with the eye looking down and you’re asking if there
is a natural way to remove the under eye bags.
As well as you mentioned in your question that your eyes are watery.
So I’ll explain to you how we approach this in our practice.
I’m a cosmetic oculofacial plastic surgeon practicing in Manhattan and Long Island for
over 20 years and this means I first trained in eye surgery and then specialized as a super
specialist in the areas of eyelid surgery.
So under eye bags is something I deal with a lot of everyday.
When we listen to concerns like yours, it is typical progression of how people approach
their eyes at first after they notice under eye bags.
First step is very often trying to eliminate salt and dealing any issues related to allergies
or sinus issues.
Very often people also go to the local retailer and look for some miracle eye cream which
reality is under eye creams have a limited ability to do anything better than improve
skin quality overall through hydration or moisturization.
So when we look at under eye bags, we’re dealing with most of the time the type of
bags that never go away in spite of sleeping properly or getting enough rest and managing
allergies.
Typically what you are dealing with lower eyelid fat prolapse.
Lower eyelid fat prolapse means that the fat that’s normally around your eyes pushes
forward and creates a bulge that is something that you are trying to relieve naturally.
The advent of hyaluronic acid fillers, there is a subset of patients who can benefit from
filling the tear trough area, the area that is like a groove, right next to the under
eye bag to soften that transition.
This is still a procedure.
It may be less invasive than surgery but it’s still a procedure.
What we’re trying to do is a contour, an eveness between those two areas.
When the puffiness is more prominent, then we perform some type of lower eyelid blepharoplasty.
This means that what we’re doing is addressing the fat pockets.
In a case like yours, even though it’s one position, I would probably anticipate there
is not a lot of extra skin, we would approach the under eye bags from the inside of the
eyelid called the transconjunctival blepharoplasty . This means there are no external incisions,
no scars on the outside and it’s usually a good and definitive procedure so it doesn’t
require the ongoing maintenance of a hyaluronic acid filler.
The exception to this is if you happen to have hollows under the eyes that are happening
concurrently.
It’s kind of an unfair imbalance.
There’s puffiness in one level and probably one hollowness in another level.
It requires very meticulous proper diagnosis and specialized care.
And so I think that it’s important that you at least understand the anatomic issue
first.
As far as the wateriness of the eyes, the common issues of the eyes have to do with
allergies or dryness.
Paradoxically, dry eyes can wet from reflex of tearing that is an attempt of your body
to lubricate eyes that are dry.
Unfortunately, a lot of times, the tear film is ineffective and need supplementation.
So I think you should meet with a cosmetic surgeon who understands eyes.
Very often that’s someone like myself that’s an oculofacial plastic surgeon who has knowledge
of ophthalmology and cosmetic surgery of the eyes is typically a good fit for someone who
has eye related issues.
This is contrast to somebody who doesn’t have watery eyes and wants to deal with the
puffiness because there are other doctors who also perform this type of procedure.
So understanding the diagnosis and the best management from the medical perspective and
the surgical or interventional perspective will help you get to where you want to be.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question!