Do you wake up looking more tired than when you went to bed? Do people tell you it's time for a vacation the day you get back? If so, it's a safe bet you've got some under eye "baggage" -- puffy eyes, eye bags, dark circles, and shadows. It's also a safe bet they're making you look more tired and older than you really are.
"It's not unusual to see women and men in their 20s and 30s who have this problem," says Ellen Marmur, MD, chief of dermatologic and cosmetic surgery at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York. "And, it only gets worse as time goes on."
Plastic surgeon Darrick E. Antell, MD, agrees. He sought medical treatment for his problem.
"I was getting so annoyed hearing everyone ask me why I looked so tired when I wasn't tired, or if I had been out late the night before when I hadn't," Antell says. "So when I was 32 I had cosmetic surgery on my eyes."
Antell, a plastic surgeon in private practice in New York, is also an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Columbia University. "I'm 57 now," he says, "and next to marrying my wife, it was the best thing I ever did."
Although cosmetic surgery is certainly an option -- and we'll tell you more about that below -- there are other ways to treat under-eye bags and sags, dark circles, and puffiness.
Before looking at the remedies, though, it's important to know a little something about how and why these eye problems occur -- and how you might avoid them to begin with.
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