Did you lose facial fat after rhinoplasty?

what can be done about this?

what can be done? i have pains in my cheeks and nose which my surgeon would not be responsible

How many month post are you??

i did mine last year 15 aug 2012, my face is getting worst

So your 8 mo post, looks like it will take few years to heal bc that's when the nose heals. It takes 2 years exactly to heal. Also, stressing is nu 1 thing that wreaks skin. It makes u look miserable and hollowed skin. So the emotional stress and obsessing and regretting stress is making it worse. You have to double on ur vegetable servings. It regenrates tissue and cartilage. Eat lots of kale, boiled brocolii vit c. Etc etc. Also, exercise like walking a lot in fresh air and exerise for circulation like dance etc, it will make u feel better too emotionally. You need to think positive, the more u stress the more u age.

Also pure shea butter helps build collegen massage it on your cheeks and saggy areas and put a lot under your eye as eye cream every night.

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i guess my case is diff from yours. mine is more of nerves. my cheeks and forehead hurts when i touch my nose vice versa when i touch my cheeks my nose hurts. recently i did a face massage and i face swelled up and is still hurting. i guess my dr screwed up my maxillary, frontal and ethmoid muscles. he refuses to be responsible

Its been almost 3 months. I've noticed my eyes thinning. My right side of face looks like a 40 yr old and I'm only 29 but looked younger than 29 before surgery. But I believe the crying a lot after surgery and suffocating breathing and emotional stress really put a 10 yr toll on my face. Also, I srting doing the things I mentioned above and it. Made a slight difference . Also we could still have uneven swelling in our faces . Which makes the areas that arnt swelled looked more hollowed. Like I stell have so much swelling between the damn eyes and the sides of my bridge. And the swelling is pumped up while the unswelled areas of my skin lay flat. So that's why the face looks odd. Looks like a long recovery, but u have to stay happy not sad.. exercise and keep up with healthy eating no coffee cuz even that gives u hollowed face. Stay positive bc there are way worse things in life. Eventhough, my eyes were my best feature, but I'm going to stay happy and not make myself miserable over it. You can either be sad or happy. Life is short wich do you prefer and its all in your head. And when ur happy time will fly and your body will heal and happy always makes you look prettier. I just hope my breatheing gets better and I never have to go under the knife again so I can move on from this bullshit. Let's make pass law and make it illegal seriously.

what do you mean let's make pass law and make it illegal seriously. nope i think it is one of the worst thing that can happen to a girl. i look like an old tranny now.

Totally agree with all you said here. The veggie increase helps. I am 5 year post op. and almost back to no hollows...it really does take a long time for the face to shift back, fat pads to restore etc. The face exercise truly work just like any phisical therapy works to help muscle atrophy. I do believe my septor muscle was released and possible nasal spine removal which would make this all very likely. Did anyone else have these two procedures to your knowlege? My post op report doesn't say it, but I have heard occasionally these things happen without being reported...not sure why.

Also, you have to eat lots and lots of protein. Try beef even though it may not be healthy but if you want to build collagen and everything it really helps. Also chicken and salmon. Try beef and chicken that is harmone free and natural raised. Try kosher/halaal meat at certain grocery stores. Also, Rice is really good too!! I put lotts of concelor under eye at work today to make skin look thicker!! It did the trick for now loll. makeup makes a difference

well it is a matter of how am i am feeling. that suicide website thanks but it is of no help.

I read your past posts where you were concerned about the hollowed eyes and cheeks. Did it really restore? Or just enough to feel better? Have are you feeling emotionally now? Hope your doing better!!

no. it is worst. my eyes not hollow. it is just that he screwed up my nerves and muscles. this makes me disfigured. i hope my ps goes bankrupt and gets paralyse in an accident. after he dies i curse his soul to be dragged down to hell to undergo the 18 levels of hell. my face hurts real bad.

You should sue him, thats not right. I think we should pass law that doctors discuss the recovery and what they will exactly do to us. my doctor did things we did not discuss during consulation, actually did what i didnt want him to do :/ or make this rhino business illegal. We should all get together and do something about this!!

same here. he refuses to admit he made a mistake. i have difficulties breathing and pains in my face. that bastard had the audacity to say it is in my mind and dismiss all my physical discomfort. He never mentioned all of these during the consultation. it is useless, he is protected by the law and insurance plus i signed the consent form. i can pray everyday for some misfortune to befall him.

Hi Robyn, i saw a doctor today (not my own doctor) for 2nd opinion today. He did suspect my septor muscle was released so your suspicion might be right. It is not the end of the world i'm staying positive :). Did you recover from it? Was facial exercise helpful? I was advised muscles can be re-educted.

I had an awful weekend obsessing on how much better my face looked before this happened. Usually not as bad. Anyway, I find the exercises do help. They are just hard to maintain and still don't take away the line crease above my upper lip. (monkey lip). They do help with eye hollows but my smile is just awful.I am so regretful for having this surgery, but had no idea the doctor was going to do this. I have researched it and apparently reattaching the septi muscle is very difficult and most say impossible. I am going to look into evaluation from another surgeon this summer (teacher so time off) and am going to try and not obsess about it until then. I don't want to go back to the original surgeon because I am afraid he will mess up my face more. The only problem is I also don't have the funds for another surgery so not quite sure what to do. I heard one doc say since the septi muscle can't be reattached, they can put a graft in to lift the lip. Please let me know if you find anything else out. Thank-you!

hi Robyn - please keep your chin up! will all be fine n get better. another operation might be another complication so natural way facial exercise is probably better to retrain your muscles. also the release of septi can still be speculations and most people don't have problem w it. are there Caci in your area? it's a natural beauty treatment that effectively retrain the muscles and should resolve the problem a lot. you can find about it online explain the science behind. don't worry too much. we might have exaggerated the problem that others don't see.

Thank-you, great words of encouragement. As I say, normally it doesn't get to me as much, just hit me funny this weekend. I will def. look up Caci (is that the right spelling?} online, thanks so much for that. Keep me posted and I will you!

yes CACI. I will start doing myself. My trusted beautitian told me CACi healed her client whose part of face was imobile due to an injury in fairly short of time so it does wonders to reeducate muscles... we do need to support each other on the road to recovery.