I'm currently 5 months post op and my nose doesn't look straight. It looks worse than it does in photos than it does in person but I still see it. I had my deviated septum fixed and my nose narrowed and a hump removed. My question is- is it uneven swelling at this point (5 months post op)? Or did my septum move out of place? What's going on? My surgeon said I was developing a callus (or something like that..sorry!) on one side and injected me with half a dose of a steroid shot sometime in march.
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