Kate E

I'm glad I found other people who are going through or went through the same thing I am. I just had my nose surgery 7 days ago, and I got my splint off yesterday. I was crestfallen, to say the least. I knew that there was a lot of swelling in the tip of my nose (I look like I have a pig's nose...not attractive), and I know that's going to go down. However, the surgery was mainly for the bump in my nose, and like many of you, when the splint came off, I saw the bump was still there...slightly less so, but still there. I'm telling myself it's just swelling and that it will straighten out, but also like many of you, the bump feels hard, like bone. The swelling in the tip of my nose doesn't feel like that, so I'm terrified the bump will stay. I've dreamed about this for 8 years now, and I'm totally depressed because I fear it was all for nothing. I'm holding out hope that the swelling is on the inside, and that maybe the bones just haven't "settled." I don't know. I think when I see my doc in 4 weeks and it hasn't gone down by then, I'll tell him I'm not happy with it. I doubt I'll get a free "touch-up" or whatever, so I won't know what to do anyways. *sigh*