I chicken out of eye surgery for now, can you suggest anything else I can do for eye lids other than surgery?

Hi, there are a few treatments you could try to tighten the skin on the eyelids and around the eye area. None of these will give as quick, clean or definitive a result as eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) but they could help.

• Ping, a radiofrequency skin-tightening protocol put together by Dr Sach Mohan, which is specifically designed for non-surgical skin tightening around the eye
• Laser skin tightening, with a fractional laser – practitioners including Dr Maryam Zamani can offer this with the Sciton laser, other practitioners will have their own favourites. You do need to wear intra-ocular shields for this procedure, which are like metal or plastic contact lenses slipped into the eye to protect it while the laser light works on the skin.
• Tixel, which is a device that generates plain heat energy (as opposed to light energy or radiofrequency energy) can also be used on the eyelids as well as around the eye. I had good results from just one treatment of this a few years ago.
• You could also try anti-wrinkle injections in the forehead, to raise your eyebrows a bit, which can make saggy eyelids look less saggy.