I was taking 2 meds for pain blocking. One of them dried me out. After several years they took me off it because of nose bleeds, they thought were due to dryness. It didn't stop the bleeding so they took me off the other and it did. It left me with a hole between the nasal passages in my cartilage and I don't know how it would be fixed.
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It is normal to have some bulid up of blood and crusting.You should check with your surgeon. I close the incisions and I give instructions to my patients to use hydrogen soaked Q-tips to gently soak and clean the incision followed by placing bacitracin antibiotic ointment to the area.Hope this...
If the septoplasty has failed, you and your doctor will have realize this within a few weeks. Not so for success. The nasal breathing can continue to improve for several months. However there should be a notiable difference within several weeks.
In some patients, a deviated septum can affect the external appearance of the nose. That being said, correction of the septum with a septoplasty procedure is usually only performed for nasal breathing problems or a recent injury. Most insurers will argue that injuries to the nose that happened...
