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Originally Posted by NM Sunshine  green
how much does it hurt to get the kind of lift you have? Did you go to a doc outside of USA? |
I am Canadian and live in Toronto and so I went to one who is here. I did choose one who has a big name and and an excellent reputation. He is one of the surgeons to whom our media go for quotes whenever they are doing articles on cosmetic surgery, and he has also been profiled often.
I paid about $25,000 for the work and it still isn't quite finished. Now I am involved in a series of treatments to get rid the rosacea on my cheeks and generally improve the quality of my skin. I went to my first session yesterday. It hurt more than I expected, by the way.
I chose my surgeon very, very carefully. This is because your face is out there 24/7 and a grrl doesn't want to live with any mistakes. :omg: None of us want to spend the rest of our years wearing a burqa, eh? :phanvan
I was on the operating table for 9 hours and I remained at the clinic overnight. I could have returned for a second night but I wanted to be at home. Because the operation is such a long one the surgeon required that I undertake a number of medical tests beforehand in order to assure that I was healthy enough to handle this. A stress test is one of these and a visit to an eye doc is another. The eye doc gave me a test to see if my eyes were 'wet' enough to withstand an eyelift.
Unlike with the op for the lap band, after this surgery you can't immediately leave town. You will require some aftercare. I was operated on a Monday, sent home on Tuesday, and had to make return visits to the clinic Wed, Thurs, Fri, and the following Monday. They want to keep an eye on you and towards the end of the week they begin to remove your stitches and staples.
The pain is, I found, seriously bad but I don't handle pain well. Never have. I do believe that you must find an excellent surgeon and really, really trust him. The reason for this is that you will go through a week of looking like a monster, and then a week of looking like a very ugly human. I spent a week looking like Michael Caine, the Brit actor, after he had been badly beaten and this really freaked me out. I figured that if I had to look like a British
actor why couldn't it have been Jude Law???? As for my eyes, I looked like I had Down's Syndrome and had been in a car crash.
Now, though, I do look great, thanks to the lap band and the face work. Yesterday my pharmacist who is just a kid went nuts over face lift. (I told him when I was cashing in the script for all the heavy narcotics and other exotic meds. :p) There are, however, large portions of my face and neck which feel funny (this is because it takes time for the nerves to reconnect) and which will continue to do so for a long time yet and my cheeks and eyes are still somewhat swollen - mostly my cheeks.
It used to be that a lot of Americans would cross the border to have cosmetic work done up here. This was when our dollar was really cheap. Now Canada is no longer such a bargain.
I hope I have answered all your questions. If you have any more, feel free to ask. :) Do get yourselves the best face surgeon in the biz, is my one most important piece of advice. :ranger:
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