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Annnoying
Surgery Day
Provider Review
Hey peeps, my name is Kelly & I am 22 years old! I just recently had rhinoplasty done and decided I would share my journey for those who are looking to get it done and need help with their decision! I will give you all a brief description on my first night/day after my surgery, the day the cast comes off, and a couple weeks and months after that too- I obviously don’t want to bore you with ‘every single day’ haha, so I’ll give you all a few days here and there! I’ll post all my photos that I take of my recovery- so be aware that some of them will be quite ‘gross and confronting’ before opening them up :) also I have 0 makeup on in any of them and my hair is tragic, sorry ;) I live in Adelaide, SA. I was blessed with an Italian background, which don’t get me wrong I absolutely LOVE! but with that, I was lucky to also get a typical wog nose. For those who have this same problem & are okay with it, i’m happy for you, own it. But for me I’m super unhappy with it & have wanted this for ages!! I chose to go with Dr. Peter Sylaidis from Adelaide Day Surgery, as my surgeon. I found out about him through an acquaintance and used this website to do my reviews before booking a consult with him. In October 2017 I had my first consult with Peter. You go in, get a 3D image created of yourself and peter then uses this image on his computer to make changes to it to show me I guess an example/estimate on what he could try to achieve with my nose. He was very honest about his opinion and what he could do, he didn’t sugar coat anything for me and made me completely aware of what I was getting into. Peter aims to keep noses more ‘natural looking’ and claims it is much better to under-correct than to over-correct. You can always go back and make some more adjustments to it later it, which of course is easier if it’s been under-corrected. I feel comfortable with him and believe I am in good hands. His assistant Marion is lovely and made me feel comfortable about the situation also. I left the consult feeling good, but also a bit worried as i wasn’t 100% happy with the 3D image I was given. I showed family and they gave me their opinions, and decided I needed to go back in for a second consult. In my second consult I talked to peter about my worries with the image and he replied on the best way he could, also reminding me it’s an improvement on what I have and nothing is going to turn out ‘perfect’. So with that I decided to book in my surgery, I’m happier with the look of my nose in the 3D imagine than what I currently have on my face, so i didn’t have a lot to lose. May 1st 2018 is my surgery day. I had to fast from 7am in the morning, and my admission time is 1pm. I didn’t wake up early to eat breakfast before my app, silly me, because I’m a hungry girl right now haha, my fault. I have spent most the morning in bed, I haven’t been super nervous about this at all leading up to today, and even still while I’m at home waiting for time to hurry up, I’m still not ‘overly’ nervous. I’m sure that will change once I’m in the building with nurses surrounding me haha! So operation time, it was a little nerve racking and went pretty quickly, I woke up feeling a bit of pain and surprisingly could breathe through my nose. The lady gave me pain relief which made me feel a lot better. About 30 mins after waking up I moved into a chair and ate some crackers and half a sandwich which I did easily. Not long after that I started to feel very ill in the belly and nauseated, which the nurses reminded me that’s normal, it could either be from swallowing a lot of blood during my surgery or the anaesthetic. My ride home wasn’t very fun as it made my nausea feel even worse, once I got home I jumped straight into bed, waiting for this sick feeling to go away while sipping on lots of water. Ok lovely’s so my first night... It was definitely a challenge. I find anaesthetic messes with my body a bit, and makes me feel quite nauseated afterwards, so spent the first half of my night feeling super sick in the belly.. I had minimal pain on my face- which was great. I had only eaten a few crackers and cheese + half a sandwich all day after my app which was 5:30ish. So around 9:30 I was getting a little hungry but was really put off food because of the sick feeling in my belly, I ate a piece of toast with peanut butter on it -which I forced myself to eat. After that I went to bed because I felt too sick, about 20 mins later I sat up because I felt even worse and threw up ‘a lot’ into those bags the hospital give you. That made me feel so much better in the belly... BUT caused my nose to bleed quite a lot, and hurt. Day 2 Not much has changed pain wise today, but I’m a lot more congested today and my eyes are starting to bruise and swell up. My nose is all stuffy with dried up blood, mmmm! As the day went on my face got more puffy, which is causing it to restrict against the plaster more & is making my head feel very heavy. I’m getting some uncomfortable headaches here and there, but still no actual pain towards my nose. Day 7 Today my cast comes off and I’m super anxious because it’s all so real now and I’m scared to see what it looks like underneath this cast, which I can no longer hide under. But also excited to see how it looks too, and to be free of this heavy annoying cast that’s making my face feel claustrophobic haha! also how congested my nose is too! Okay guys! Cast is off, took the nurse basically 10 minutes, peter came in in between and had a quick look and feel, told me it looked good but not to be alarmed by the appearance as it’s still quite swollen. It wasn’t painful at all having the cast taken off and stitches taken out, was more of a relief than anything else. Had a look in the mirror, look like I’ve been beaten up haha, I’m happy with how it looks considering how it looked to begin with. It is very swollen still (especially my tip) so I’m just taking that into account when I look at my front profile. My side profile looks a lot better now, still swollen, but better! I’ll post up some pics again soon when I actually have makeup or something on to give you guys another view of it, instead of my scary zombie look! Also as weeks go on, so you can see the changes in the healing process :) Hope my review helps people! Have any questions, please ask! xx