Is using Flonase to reduce swelling safe one week after Rhino/Septoplasty?

Yes, smoking and drinking can significantly impair healing and may contribute to prolonged swelling and stiffness, even 10.5 months post-op. Nicotine constricts blood vessels and reduces oxygen flow, which slows tissue recovery, while alcohol can cause fluid retention and inflammation. Morning...

There isn't much fat on the nose and any thickness you see is usually attributed to other tissue, namely skin and cartilage. 

Touching your nose cannot change its shape, size, or dimension in any manner. The only possibility of a change to the structure of the nose by touch is via trauma or physiological conditions like a tumor. Trauma can include the breaking of the nose bridge which can for a tip during healing or...

 The dorsal hump is usually composed of both bone and cartilage and must be filed or shaved down to remove it. Once the hump has been shaved down, osteotomies of the nasal bones are required to prevent an open roof deformity and straighten the crooked nose. Occasionally a spreader graft is ...

HiI saw your post, your question and your pictures.  Your pictures show the bump that it obvious but closer evaluation based on these small pictures reveals a low nasal starting point and a ptotic tip.  If you just take down the bump your nose will look too low and flat and droopy....

     It is possible that the trauma changed the quality of your voice and that surgical correction could help.Kenneth Hughes, MDLos Angeles, CA