Open Rhinoplasty Septum over Growth Reduction\ Reduction of Dorsal Hump\narrowing of Nasal Bones - Virginia Beach, VA

Since my surgery I have gained so much more confidence in my appearance. I no longer shy away from photos because of a fear of someone catching me at the wrong angle. I have actually been doing some modeling now too. The reason I am also writing this post is because I had to go in and have my nasal bone raped because I had developed a bump. I chose to only have local numbing. Pretty scary considering the fact that I am completely awake while he makes an incision inside of my nose and the uses a file on m bone all of which I could hear. I tried to hum while he did it to help sooth myself, and block out the sound. The only part that hurt was him giving me the shots inside and outside of my nose a total of 3, my eyes watered like crazy and for some reason I got a really weird feeling in my right eye while he was injecting. I believe what I felt was the numbing going into my sinus cavity because my teeth on the right side of my face went numb. He made the incision on the inside of my right nostril. I heard some cracking and then the file was in. I kept my eyes closed tight and I tried to think about other things to separate my self from what was happening. Feeling a metal file slide under your skin and across your bone vigorously is just crazy! I was trying to remain as calm as possible and not annoy the doctor, I didn't want to be a nuisance. He didn't give me a prescription for pain pills like he did with my first surgery, and I wasn't too concerned about pain until everything was happening and I was feeling the pressure on my nose and this file grinding. So I asked him how much pain I'm going to be in after the numbing wears off. He prescribed me some pain meds and then told me the next day I can take motrin. Happy I asked for the pain meds cuz all the stuff they tell me I am allowed to take do absolutely nothing for me. The pain I feel with my nose right now I'd more like a dull pain. Or like a head ach that is just coming on. This procedure didn't cost me anything extra, and I was super scared considering no matter how much I searched the internet about other people having done this with out sedation I could find a single thing!! My main concern is how soon I could take the bandages off and go back to work. My worst fear was to swell up like I did last time and the bruising. Considering this procedure is no where near as invasive as my previous one I believe the swelling and bruising will be minimal. Today is Wednesday and he said Friday morning I can get the nose tape wet and peel it off so I can go to work. All in all, it wasnt as horrific as I thought it would be, I tried to think of it as when I would get my cavities drilled when I was a kid, and told myself I wasn't scared then so I shouldn't be now.

I started using this clear medical tape that stretches and I will stretch the tape across my nose where the bump is. I do it before I go to bed and its made it all better. Its flattened out and Im very happy. Its all a part or the healing process

For the past few days I have been noticing a bump developing and increasing in height on the bridge of my nose, I understand that its common in Osteotomies to develop a "healing calus", but im just becoming very worried because its really causing a deformity. I loved my nose after the cast was taken off. I thought that I would just get to love it more and more, but now im kinda sad.