Dr Aran Aso — Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
Aftercare

Upper Blepharoplasty Recovery

Guidance for eyelid swelling, cold compresses, eye comfort, incision care, activity, and urgent vision warning signs.

If something feels urgent, do not wait on this website.

Contact the clinical team promptly. For severe or rapidly worsening symptoms, use local emergency services or the nearest appropriate emergency department. This website is not monitored as an emergency service.

These are general instructions. Follow the written and verbal plan given for your own operation when it differs.

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  • Use these instructions as general guidance only. If your surgeon or clinic team gave you different instructions, follow the clinic instructions.
  • Keep your follow-up appointment even if you feel well. Early review helps the clinic notice small issues before they become larger problems.

What is usually normal

  • Blurred vision from ointment, watery eyes, light sensitivity, tightness, swelling, and bruising can be expected early.
  • Mild asymmetry is common while swelling is changing. The eyelids often look more settled after the first few weeks.

Cold compresses and eye comfort

  • Use cold compresses exactly as instructed, usually in short on-and-off intervals during the first 24 to 48 hours.
  • Use eye drops or ointment only as prescribed. Do not pull down hard on the eyelid when applying drops.
  • Wear sunglasses outdoors and avoid contact lenses until the clinic clears you.

Incision care

  • Clean only as instructed. Keep hands clean and do not pick at crusts, sutures, glue, or strips.
  • Shower and wash hair only when allowed. Keep soap, shampoo, and makeup away from the incision until cleared.

Activity

  • Rest quietly for the first few days, with your head elevated when resting or sleeping.
  • Avoid bending, heavy lifting, hard exercise, swimming, dusty environments, and rubbing the eyes until cleared.

Call the clinic urgently

  • Call immediately for any vision loss, new double vision, severe eye pain, or pressure behind the eye.
  • Rapidly increasing swelling, one eyelid becoming very tight or hard, bleeding that does not slow, or inability to close the eye needs urgent review.
  • Call for fever, pus, spreading redness, worsening pain, severe dryness, or a scratchy eye that does not improve with prescribed drops.

Emergency signs

  • Seek emergency care now for chest pain, shortness of breath, fainting, severe uncontrolled bleeding, or a fast irregular heartbeat.
  • Seek urgent care for new one-sided calf swelling, warmth, redness, or cramping, especially after body or breast surgery.
  • After eye surgery or facial fillers, sudden vision change, severe eye pain, or stroke-like symptoms should be treated as an emergency.

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