eyes!

i also am looking into getting my eyes done. is it possible to make your eyes bigger? my eyes are so small. especially compared to everything else on my face. is it possible?

[Howard Rosenberg, MD]

Cosmetic eyelid surgery involves removal of excess skin, fat and alteration of underlying aging changes.  The net effect can make the eyes look more open.  Lid surgery can also be used to elevate the lids in patients with abnormal lid sag (ptosis) that interferes with vision.

[carterb]

I am 21 years old I have a undeveloped right eye its not a adult eye its in the form of a infant or unborn childs eye. I have went back and forth to doctors but not in the last maybe 5 years I am going to go to the doctor soon, though because of my appear reason I wear contacts for my eyes brown ones. My contacts makes both of my eyes appear to be the same color and size so it doesnt look so noticeable. I am trying to find out if any one can tell me if there is something they can do to help me I have something simalar to congenital strabismus or ptosis but its not the same because my eye not only wanders or droops but it is smaller to than my left eye. When I was little the doctors at Duke Hospital in NC said that my eye was going to cause my left eye to make me completely blind, but it didn't so i am luck to be able to see but I wish I could see with both eyes and look normal and I think I have come to a point where I need to stop wearing contacts so I dont become completely blind, but i just want to look normal so bad... if any one can comment on this please help me.

[eye wide open]

Hello.

Thank you in advance for your time with this inquiry. Since my car accident at the age of 21 in 1991, and at the suggestion of my previous surgeon, I have undergone approximately 9-10 procedures to "correct" the "droopy" lid on my right eye. I finally had enough of the suffering caused by the surgeries and returned to my previous surgeon for one last procedure to attempt to reverse the over-tightened, often painful and unnatural appearance/feeling of the results on my right eye. Instead of smoothing and lowering/relaxing the lid as intended, I now have tighter pulling, indents, swelling, tearing, itching... and the worst part is that I still cannot close my eye at all.  I have been unable to close my right eye or blink properly for 10+ years as a result of these "corrective" procedures. I must sleep with a lubricant/mask every night in order to protect my exposed eyeball. I am desperately looking for a surgeon who can correct the disfigured, increasingly damaging and scared results that I live with on a daily basis.  If you are not that surgeon, perhaps you can suggest someone with the ability to lower, soften and repair this monstrosity which has become my face. I do not expect miracles, I am well aware of the risks involved. i stayed with the same surgeon for so long because I didn't question his abilities until the results of this last procedure. I went to him with the complaint that the lid wont close and my eye is chronically dry and he suggested using some form of epoxy and surgical tape when I sleep. He had known about the dryness all along and had me using drops all day every day and most nights over the course of the night, interrupting my sleep. The first week after the reversal procedure, probably from swelling, I was able for the first time in years to sleep without any cover or ointments but once the swelling went down nothing had changed except for the fact that now my eye looks even worse than it did before he tried to fix what he had done to me. I feel betrayed and embarrassed by this whole situation. Is there anyone out there that would be willing to take on the correction of another surgeon's work without raking me over the coals as this whole process has been costly both financially and more so, emotionally? I am so uncomfortable all the time with the tightness and the pulling and the dryness... is there no solution to this humilating and disfiguring situation? Your attention and consideration in this matter are greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Ms Eye wide open