Ptosis means you have a droopy eyelid. It may be caused by eyelid raising muscle weakness, nerve damage to muscles that control eyelid or loose upper eyelid skin.
Ptosis may cause:
- eyestrain
- loss of vision
- blurred vision
- eyebrow strain
- tired appearance
- increased tearing
- tension headaches
If the drooping and sagging of your eyelids is significant, then you may be tilting your head back to get a better view of things.
A few causes for droopy eyelid ptosis are:
- stroke
- shingles
- botulism
- paralysis
- lymphoma
- blepharitis
- Bell’s palsy
- brain tumor
- amyloidosis
- inflammation
- normal aging
- pituitary tumor
- neuroblastoma
- brain aneurysm
- myasthenia gravis
- Horners syndrome
- long term diabetes
- migraine headaches
- Guillain Barre syndrome
A child’s drooping eyelid that is left untreated can lead to amblyopia.
Most cases of ptosis are associated with aging. However, if a disease is causing your eyelid to droop, then treatment for it may be your sag cure.
Surgery may be necessary to correct muscle problems with opening your droopy eyelid. This is known as levator muscle dysfunction.
Surgical treatment for muscular ptosis tightens your levator muscle tissue or connects paralyzed muscles to healthier eyebrow muscles. Thus, your forehead muscles do the eyelid lifting.
Blepharoplasty is upper eyelid lift for cosmetic purposes. Surgery treatment is often successful in restoring functionality and appearance of drooping, sagging ptosis.
