Lower Eyelid Surgery and Blood Pressure Management: Why Aspirin Must Be Stopped

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If your blood pressure is high, can you not have lower eyelid surgery?

High blood pressure is closely related to bleeding, so blood pressure management before surgery is very important.

If blood pressure is high, bleeding may occur and hemostasis may be hindered.

Therefore, if your blood pressure is high, we recommend stabilizing it before proceeding with surgery.

Controlling blood pressure is, of course, a matter of course for any surgery, but sometimes patients try to go ahead with surgery anyway, which can be concerning.

There are also patients who say their blood pressure is low at home, or that it only goes up when they come to the hospital.

However, once surgery begins, tension and anesthetic medication can raise blood pressure by 10-15 or more compared with usual levels.

Therefore, if normal blood pressure is not maintained, it may be difficult to proceed with surgery.

Forcing surgery to go ahead due to a patient's busy schedule can ultimately cause side effects due to bleeding and delayed hemostasis.

Lower eyelid surgery for middle-aged men

Anseongmin Plastic Surgery puts patient safety first above all else, and all surgeries are performed under local anesthesia.

If blood pressure is high, surgery is not performed.

The minimum stable blood pressure is below 150.

The recovery process after incision-based lower eyelid surgery

Lower eyelid surgery for middle-aged men

1. Before lower eyelid surgery - The area under the eyes looks puffy and shadowed.
2. 7 days after surgery - The stitches are removed. After stitch removal, the major swelling begins to subside.
3. 1 month after surgery - A foreign body sensation, redness, and similar symptoms may occur, but they gradually improve.
4. 3 months after surgery - As the remaining swelling goes down, the area settles into a natural appearance.

Up to 6 months after surgery, you may feel that it does not feel like your own tissue and may experience a foreign body sensation, but this gradually improves over time.

Lower eyelid surgery and aspirin

Aspirin is a medication taken by patients with heart disease to prevent blood clots.

If a blood clot blocks a blood vessel, problems that can be directly life-threatening, such as stroke or myocardial infarction, may occur.

Aspirin has blood-thinning properties, so when undergoing surgery for another condition, bleeding side effects may occur.

Therefore, if you are planning to have lower eyelid surgery, you should stop taking aspirin at least 2 weeks in advance.

Aspirin has an anticoagulant effect. This not only interferes with hemostasis during surgery, but can also cause blood to continue oozing from the incision site after surgery, resulting in significant bleeding.

Before surgery, taking aspirin increases the likelihood of complications such as excessive bleeding, hematoma, bruising, and swelling, and it delays recovery, making it one of the medications to be most cautious about.

If you are taking aspirin, be sure to consult with the medical staff and stop taking it for at least 2 weeks.

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