Hi all! Thank you in advance for taking the time to answer my question. I have seasonal/pet allergies that give me a pretty much constant runny and/or stuffy nose. I usually don't take meds for them because they make me loopy. Due to my symptoms, though, I'm constantly rubbing, blowing and wiping my nose which I anticipate would be inadvisable following my upcoming surgery. I usually can only breathe through one nostril at a time when I'm at home (my guy came with a cat!), and I would think the inflammation from the allergies would exacerbate the post surgery inflammation. Would you advise a patient in my circumstances to start taking allergy meds before surgery, or after? If after, how soon after? Thank you again.
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Yes. It is possible to limit a rhinoplasty operation to the lower one-third of the nose (the nasal tip). This procedure is commonly know as a "tip rhinoplasty".In tip rhinoplasty, the appearance of the nose is refined by modifying the size and shape of the paired tip cartilages that sit at the...
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If you invest your time and money into a rhinoplasty, it must be importand to you. If you take time off your skateboard to recover (possibly a month), then your nose will be strong. Getting hit in the nose a month after a rhinoplasty will take a pretty substantial force to move anything.
