My New Nose - Estonia, Tallinn

Hello everybody, sorry for not having updated my profile for so long! I have been enjoying my improved nose and working hard on writing my Master's thesis. I can finally say it's all done now!

About my recovery process - I have almost fully regained my smile and facial expressions, though some things are still bit painful. Such as raising my eyebrows too high.
My nose gets stuffy very often, but I rinse it with saline water 3 times a day and that helps a lot. All the discomfort is slowly going away.

I haven't mentioned this before, but I'm planning to change my life and move to London in June, after I finish my Master's studies. For this reason I quit my job in February, to be able to concentrate on my studies and get the rhinoplasty done. I've combined the recovery and working on the thesis and hide away at home for over a month. Due to this I haven't seen many close people for quite some time. Only now I have started to meet up with them. Some know that I had a nose surgery, some not. I must say I have a lot of fun with people's reactions!
The funniest incident happened when I was at a grocery store and saw a fellow student from university whom I hadn't seen for 6 months. He didn't recognise me up to the moment when I started speaking with him. He was in complete shock for not having recognised me. He started blushing and said that I look so different - probably because my hair colour was different. I replied - maybe it's because I'm not wearing any make up :D
Other people who don't know that I had the surgery stare at me bit longer with a puzzled expression, but no one has said anything about my nose yet.
The ones who do know shower me with compliments :)

Today is the day!!!!!

I am so happy and so pleased with the result! Im very swallen between the eyes, nevertheless, my nose complements my face so well! I was afraid that I would be in shock after seeing it, but not at all, my nose looks so natural and I think it will not be possible to understand that I had a nose job. I think I even look younger now because my round cheeks stand out better.

I can confirm - having this surgery is one of the best decisions I have ever made. I also acknowledge even more the importance of choosing the right doctor.
I couldn't be more happy with dr. Margus Luht. I love his honesty, thoroughness and sense of humour and he did such a complicated and amazing job on my asymmeytric face even without cutting the columella, so I will not have a scar under the nose. And when the swelling will go down, my nose will become even more beautiful with each day.

If you are thinking about having any kind of procedure on your nose, first of all, set realistic expectations and do not accept anything less than feeling a good connection with your doctor, his/her many many years of experience and positive reviews and it's also really important to know what will happen if a revision surgery should be neccessary.

I've noticed that many people on here who are unhappy with their outcome say that they can not reach the doc anymore or she/he is being rude to them, refusing to help, and in the end, their patients get psychologically very very damaged. Try to minimize the chance of this happening from the beginning.

The whole experience needs to be positive from your first contact till the end, because the outcome and healing is the result of a good co-operation between the doctor and the patient and your healing also depends a lot on how you feel emotionally and the thoughts that go through your head.

My doctor specializes in ENT and nose plastic surgery and doing revision surgeries to fix the work of his colleagues. He told me straight away and very honestly that nose surgeries are very complicated procedures, so it happens from time to time even to the best ones that a revision might be neccessary and that he is more than happy to do it in that case (for free), taking a full responsibility. This was a very good sign for me to trust him even more.

I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy!!! :)

I'm also so grateful for all the support of people on realself.com!! Good luck with finding your inner peace and making the best choices for yourself! Always trust your instinct and know how to make yourself happy inside out.

I've been walking around looking like a victim of domestic abuse for almost a week now. I'm feeling really good and my bottom is really tired and sore of being sat on all the time, so I've gone on little walks and buying groceries, scaring people and little children with my face. The security guard was following me around suspiciously, I guess he couldn't quite understand why I was covering my face with a scarf like that, not to mention having half of the face taped :)) I'll go back to scare him tomorrow :D

This morning I called my sunny and positive surgeon. I will meet him on Thursday to have the cast removed!!!

There is still bit of drainage coming from my nose, so I still use the "moustache" to catch it. Today I can taste more nuances of food than yesterday. I still can't breathe throught my nose (probably it wouldn't be a good thing to do anyway), but the left side is much less congested and this morning the right nostril started making some noises of air passing through.

It's been so lovely to read the reviews on this site! It's an enourmous emotional support knowing that you are not alone in all this and the thoughts, fears, even feeling of shame is really normal and everyone who has been thorough this has experienced the same things.

It seems that plastic surgery has always had a negative stigma to it and that it's something one should be ashamed of. Well, thanks to you and to realself.com I feel very confident and thoroughly informed and I think don't even care if people notice and point out or not notice the change I've been through.

I hope I'll love the result. If somebody will notice the change and ask me about it, I will be happy to share my experience. I think life is too short to worry about what somebody might think and it's important to know what you want and do the things that bring you inner happiness (even if it's a rhinoplasty), because a happy person can do so many good things and make other persons happy as well.