24 year old guy looking for advice on best way to proceed with my baggy eyes.
What can I do to remedy this situation?
For the past years, I have increasing darkening and swelling bags under my eyes.
I have always had insomnia.
Because of my social life, and my work schedule it is also very difficult to get into a nightly
routine.
Lastly, I have had constant post nasal drip every day for the past two years.
If those of you familiar with this area find it is commonly associated with baggy eyes,
that would be interesting.
I would like to do what I can to remedy this situation.
Thank you.
Thank you for your question!
You’re 24 years old and you’ve been wrestling with the issue of puffy eyes and in your question,
you described several issues that I’ll discuss with and how it can be affecting the appearance
of your eyes.
You’re taking about irregular sleep, insomnia, postnasal drip, the type of work you do.
And so with the photos you submitted, what I can see, it appears to be puffiness under
the eyes and that puffiness, you have to ask yourself if it’s constant.
If it’s constant, then this puffiness represents something called lower eyelid fat prolapse.
Lower eyelid fat prolapse is when fat that is normally around your eyes, pushes forward
and creates a bulge and that bulge makes the eyes look puffy.
Now, the eye area happens to share a zone of drainage which is also associated with
the sinuses.
So if someone has issues with sinuses such as sinus problems and allergies then the puffiness
can actually look more significant and can fluctuate.
You can have good days or if it’s constant, you may have days where it looks puffier than
other days.
Irregular sleep is a stress and when people ask me what they can do to help maintain the
appearance of their eyes after they had their cosmetic procedure, they want it to last a
long time, I always remind them what a typical American president looks like on the first
day before the inauguration and what they look like 4 years later.
Where do they always look like where the job is affecting them in their eyes.
Their eyes look very tired.
The eyelids are the most sensitive thin skin in the body and the tissue is very delicate.
And so stresses in your body whether it’s physical, lack of sleep, sinus, allergies
can affect the eyes.
In terms of the fat prolapse, I can recommend that you consider a lower eyelid blepharoplasty
which is approaching and sculpting the fat pockets.
In my practice, I prefer the transconjunctival approach which is from behind the eyelid to
reduce the puffiness.
At least that would take away enough of the negative of the appearance but it is very
important to try to work on your lifestyle and address the issues with the sinuses and
the allergies.
In terms of lower eyelid transconjunctival blepharoplasty, we routinely perform this
procedure under local anesthesia with minimal IV sedation so that our patients can recover
quickly so it doesn’t disrupt their work schedule too much.
I think it’s important for you to move forward with meeting with doctors possibly allergists,
ear-nose doctors as well as qualified experienced cosmetic surgeons to get some opinions to
what you can to do to at least help you look less tired.
So I wish you the best of luck, I hope that was helpful and thank you for your question!