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How to sleep after septoplasty? Also do I wake up to change gauze in the middle of the night?

RaymondMorenoSep 12, 2016
Is there anyway to help sleeping after septoplasty? I had my surgery earlier today and I'm finding sleeping so difficult and the pain medicine is not making me drowsy at all. One more thing. Do I set an alarm to keep rinsing my nostrils and change my gauze?

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