I'm 2 weeks post-op and just caught a cold. Things were starting to feel better after surgery. But now i caught a cold or sinus infection. It's terrible, can't breathe at all through the nose now. I use saline every day. However I need to blow my nose all the time now, am I doing any damage to my surgery results? I can't help it. Don't know what else to do, not allowed to use xylometazoline etc. As I had a 5 year addiction before surgery.
I can breathe so much better but I am worried I may have done damage? No blood. The mucus was a clear with some brown very thick sticky mass. The thickest I have ever experienced. . I can breathe better and might be being paranoid but I wonder if my nostril looks a tad larger. Was the mucus a normal part of the healing process that I shouldn't have removed or am I okay?
I could still breath and it didnt hurt for very long. The side I hit it on looks more bigger, but my nose still appears straight. Also, could hitting it do slight damage and not redeviate the nose, or would the only damage possible be redeviating it?
My eyes are always infected. I cant use drops bcz my eyes are very sensitive. Above my nose inbetween my eyebrows it feels tight, and pulls. When I breath inwards through my nose my right eye exceeds water. could I have damage to my nasolacrimal duct could it have moved? or have nerve or muscle or tissue damage/inflammation? If so how long will it be before I recover, is there anything that can be done? My ENT surgeon has discharged me.
I got hit by a soccer ball pretty hard straight to the face my nose started bleeding for a minute. After a week my nose looks wider. Is it because excessive swelling form the blow from the soccer ball or has it caused permanent damage. Plus I think my nose is looking a bit deviated.
It's been over a month since my surgery and I started smoking cigarettes here and there once and a while. I was really worried if it would be effect by the healing or even the tissue repairing or recovery? Obviously it is not recommended to smoke for ANYTHING but will this do any major damage to my recovery process? thoughts? Thanks!
I had a septoplasty 2 years ago. I would like to get a septum piercing... would this be ok? I know my surgeon was against them in general, but I am more concerned with the real likelihood of damage based on the piercing being done correctly. Thanks!
I recently started noticing that my nostrils look completely different from the other. In the left one I can't really see straight up into it and there's more cartilage/skin and the right one I can see completely inside of it and there's way less cartlidge. Is my septum deviated? Is the tissue damaged. I never really noticed til now and it's starting to bother me