The first step after you make contact with your closest Lifestyle Lift office will most likely be a Lifestyle Lift consultation. It’s important that you have your questions ready as this is the best time to get answers.
In my search for information, originally regarding a traditional facelift and then the Lifestyle Lift, I had a lot of confusing information. At the time, there was this idea that recovery was really quick. Some indicated that I could have my Lifestyle Lift one day and go to lunch with friends the next and go to work a few days later. Everyone is different, surgeries are different, healing is different, but I can’t imagine that to be the case. In fact, that is one of the reasons I documented my procedure so well and created this website. I guess I wanted to diffuse some of the erroneous information going around the Internet even though I was excited about the concept. I think my expectations of quick healing were pessimistic at best, but I think even I got it wrong. Recovery was a tough, especially that first week.
My husband went with me to the consultation, and we were only allowed to talk with a “consultant” and not a doctor. I found out later that when I made the appointment for the consultation, I could have asked to see a doctor at that time. I don’t know if that holds true for all the Lifestyle Lift locations, but evidently, at least some of them will allow you to consult with a doctor. Either way, you will have a pre-op consultation with the doctor before your surgery. We were told to watch a 5-minute video on a TV in the consult room, and then the consultant came back in to answer our questions. I had done quite a bit of research, so basically our questions related to
- The ability of the surgeon
- When I could get it done
- How much would it cost
- Should I have liposuction on my jaws or jowls as they call them
- Could the surgeon could do an eye lid lift for me (blepharoplasty)
- Where will the incisions be made
- How much scarring should I expect
- How much pain and discomfort I might have
- How long would it take me to recover from the Lifestyle Lift face lift.
- How likely is it that I will need a second procedure (the question I didn’t ask, but you should)