Rhinoplasty: Stories

Thank you, and congrats to you on surviving the worst part of the recovery :) only good things from here on out!

Thank you Rayah :)

Likewise! How are you adjusting to your new nose now?

Thank you :) Yes, I think that's what I was mostly afraid of, that it would look SO different and not fit my face....glad you had positive results yourself!

Thank you lolo!!

I'm doing ok, just anxious to get this thing off my face! :) After I freaked out about how uneven they looked, I decided to stop over analyzing my nose as I had 10 whole days left to see the result of my procedure, and even then I wouldn't really be able to see the final product....this was so I could keep my sanity during this whole process :) But I can say that they don't look AS uneven as they did on day one....but this all remains to be seen on Thursday. I will keep you posted :) You look fantastic by the way! Are your nostrils uneven right now? because I didn't see any of that in your pictures?

How exciting for you!! Your nose is going to look great, you'll see :) even with the cast and tape and everything else on, your nose looks so cute already, all the best to you! Wish I was getting mine off too :( I'm so uncomfortable at this point with this cast on....soooo itchyy!! I've actually started scratching the areas I can get to with a tooth pick hahah :D

Right?! where do people get the strength from to do this over and over again? I feel so exhausted from this experience and am now finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel :) thank you for the cast removal day tip! I'm very nervous but anxious to get this thing off already. By the way, your profile looks amazing! can't wait to see more pictures in the coming weeks/months, as the swelling subsides....it's going to look even more fabulous :)

Thank you for the encouraging words....I've tried to chill out on the freaking out :) still have 5 more days til cast comes off, my PS decided to keep it on for 10 whole days, so I'm very anxious!! The twilight anesthesia was actually nothing like I had expected it to be. I had read a lot of horror stories where people were able to hear bones breaking, and the doctor/nurses speaking, and seeing instruments used on them, so I was petrified going in! But, as soon as I got inside the operating room, they had me sit down on the operating chair, and put a little IV in my arm in order to give me sedatives. Once I calmed down and relaxed, they gave me some more sedatives which pretty much put me out, so all I remember from the procedure itself, was the nurse telling me to swallow one time, and I finally came to when he got done putting the cast on my nose. Only thing super creepy about it all was that I had never had any surgery done so walking into the operating room and seeing everything really made me panic, and then they proceeded to strap me onto the operating chair which set me over the top with panic/anxiety....but once I got the meds I calmed down and didn't feel a thing. The nurse did warn me that the only thing I would feel was the two injections of anesthetics I would be receiving on each side of my bridge, but I didn't even feel those. My rhinoplasty was a closed one, and the whole thing took about an hour and 15 min. All in all, it was not NEARLY as bad as I thought it would be...hope this helps!!

Thank you MissMJ! It makes me feel a little better. I heard the same stories but from the patients personally. My next door neighbor had her nose done twice and the 2nd time it was under local like yours and she told me that she heard her bones and doctor talking. This is why I have been really nervous about it. But my doctor at first offered to do it with just injections to my nose and I would totally see everything. I said no thank you put me out and I don't want to know what you are doing and hear you doing it so he offered to do twilight instead. So its good to know that you were out and didn't hear any of it. I won't have any bones broken just cartilage stuff but still I just don't want to know what's going on that will totally freak me out and I will probably ruin the entire procedure. I feel much much better now thanks to you! :) And for your nose, be patient it takes almost 3 months for most of the swelling to go down and 6 months for the nose to take semi-final shape. When the nose is in the cast things are not even or what you would normally see your nose after the cast comes off. I must have called my doctor twice about my nose being too pointy and too over projected. He kept telling me that it won't be as soon s he takes that cast off and stitches out. He was 100% right. As soon as the cast came off my nose was no longer pointy but still a little more over projected than expected. Than literally 3 or so hours later the nose no longer looked this projected and a week later it dropped to where it should be. So this is a process and unfortunately one hard to wait for. Because this nose is in the middle of our faces we want things to progress fast but the darn nose is the longest part of our body to heal up. It literally takes 1 year from your surgery for the nose to take its final shape. And I am not sure if you knew that but our noses change throughout our entire life and that's not because of the surgery its what our noses do, which is why you see old people with droopy noses. ;) And which is why surgeons like to put that graft that holds your tip up as they know at some point in your life closer to old age your nose will want to drop. :) Was not sure if you knew that. :) And you look great so don't freak out but I know its easier said than done. I have been there and still there and totally understand what you are going through.