I have many compulsive tics: one of them causes me to push my nose (septum) to the side with extreme pressure, sometimes holding it there. I have since managed to control this but not until about a year of doing it every day.
I might have stretched the septal cartilage, or broken or badly damaged it somehow. It definitely looks and feels very different, like it has been pushed to the side, malformed somehow. My septum is definitely not straight in many directions. What could I have done? Is it fixable?
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