Upper vs. Lower Blepharoplasty
Your eyes communicate before you say a word. Drooping upper eyelids and puffiness or sagging below the eyes can make you look tired, older, or less like yourself, even when you feel perfectly rested and alert. Eyelid surgery, called blepharoplasty, is one of the most commonly performed cosmetic and functional procedures in ophthalmology, and for […]
Can Drooping Eyelids Affect Your Vision?
A drooping eyelid is easy to dismiss as a cosmetic concern or a normal sign of aging. But depending on the cause and severity, ptosis (the medical term for a drooping upper eyelid) can do more than change your appearance. It can mean compensatory behaviors meaningfully interfere with your vision, strain the muscles around your […]
Why Do My Eyelids Feel Heavy?
Heavy eyelids are one of those symptoms easy to explain away. A bad night’s sleep, a long day at a screen, too much time in dry air. Most of the time, that explanation holds. The heaviness fades after rest, and nothing more comes of it. But when the feeling lingers, returns consistently, or shows up […]