Hello, I’ve found the ebook on hooded eyes very informative, much appreciated! I have been researching blepharoplasty. It’s just my left eye so I Iook quite lopsided and have a heavy dragging feeling and watering. A few questions before I pay for a consultant appointment – Can I just get one eye done? Can I have it under local anaesthetic to keep costs down? I live in the NE so there aren’t many options for surgery and I’ve been quoted £3,400 or £4,800, which is a lot on my salary! Any feedback most appreciated!

Hi, any surgeon will want to treat both eyes, even if they are treating both differently, in order to make them balanced and ‘reset’ them to the same level, as it were (if you were to have just one eye done, it will soon start to look younger/ fresher/ better adjusted than the one that wasn’t treated). Most eye surgeons do the procedure under sedation, so you are unaware of what’s going on but you are still breathing for yourself (as opposed to general anaesthetic, where you have a tube down your throat), and you recover quickly and can go home the same day. Hope that helps.