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Please heed your surgeon's instructions. Medications like Afrin work by constricting blood vessels - choking the same vessels that provide blood supply to the tissues being operated on. Cartilage and soft tissues can have prolonged healing or even die if they are jeopardized. This is the same effect that happens with drugs like cocaine and nicotine. Please avoid Afrin prior to surgery and never use for longer than 72 hours in a continuous span.Good luck with your surgery.
It is Important to be off of afrin prior to a septoplasty surgery. usual have a much more difficult postoperative course if you are hooked on Afrin nasal spray before surgery.
It is best to discuss post op restrictions with your surgeon as each surgeon has a unique protocol following surgery.
I would recommend an in-person consultation with a rhinoplasty expert. This can be a plastic surgeon or ENT/facial plastic surgeon. It appears that you have a left deviation of your entire nose with a C-shaped deformity. Your caudal septum is dislocated to the left. Therefore, you will lik...
Septoplasty can cause asymmetrical nostril and rarely nasal deviation. However in your case it is too early to judge the final results. Even if one requires a revision surgery, the operation would usually be planned for when the healing process is completed. You should consult...
