Rhinoplasty for Me! and Waiting for Grigoryants, Seeking closer Surgery date!... - Glendale, CA

My nose is still swollen. The tip, to be exact. Dr. G did say that itll be most swollen for the longest time and i also read that ethical noses just take longer for the swelling to go down. Im not sure why, though. The skin is thicker or my nose was just thicker, idk. I read that is its still swollen the doctors can inject a type of steroid to help the scar tissue dissolve. I surely hope thats an option because my nose does look noticeably swollen on one side and the tip. I'll be uploading pictures soon to show. I have my final appointment in March with Dr. G. He said the swelling should be completely gone by then and that we'll be taking the "after" pictures.

I've been MIA...I didn't take my nose very well. Don't get me wrong I think it's going to look just great! It's going to look great once the swelling goes down, but it wasn't the swelling that had me feeling uneasy. I didn't feel like myself, I couldn't see myself. I still feel totally different like I look totally different. At some point I actually felt like I was regretting it. Now I'm feeling much better. The night before my cast came off I had a horrible nightmare. I woke up crying. I had a dream that my cast had come off but my nose was hideous! It was just hideous! And I was in a lot of pain that night too! I couldn't sleep, probably just thinking about my new nose and all but anywho...

So dr.g was running late and my dad and I just waited in the waiting room for a while. He called me in so there I went. He took off the cast and then proceeded on taking off some of the stitches and wow, they really hurt! But once those stitches were out the alar base of my nose stopped hurting so much! It felt good finally to get that cast off and oh goodness im suprised I haven't read anyone talking about the smell of dried blood. It's disgusting. Once he took the cast off I was able to breath through my nose very well and still have drainage coming out of the right nostril. I had a deviated septum so that was also fixed during my surgery and I can't breath almost too much that I'm actually trying to get use to.

I tape every night and sometimes during the day. The swelling I can feel has gone down around my eyes and my nose but of course the tip is still very swollen and usually it stays swollen for the longest time as well. I'm still taking my vitamins and I take pain meds every morning, the pain just spikes in the morning. I'm hoping that the tip drops down a bit and my nose isn't so buttony. I find it comforting to go to dr.gs website and look at the before and after pictures for the noses he's done. It reminds me that this is a process and my nose will look more like my nose just cuter. I was stressing because I couldn't find an ounce of my nose but just thinking about how swollen it is and how it's going to get better is really helping me deal with my feeling right now. More pictures to come later

ladies and gents, if you can muster up the pain, do so! i decided to not take any pain meds for now an i feel so much better. Im actually moving around and doing things. when i was on the pain meds i would just spend most of the time in bed. Everything made me feel nauseous. I don't know if this was my diet or the meds but Ive been constipated for the last few days. I wasn't able to sleep last night like at all. i was up checking my phone because, well, its not like i can do much. The nurses say to clean out your nostrils and you really should even though it hurts like a [RS bleep]. I was finally able to clean it well today with minimal pain.

The cast should have came off today but its a Sunday and they aren't opened on Sundays so its not until tomorrow at 5pm. i still cant eat comfortably. i was worried about not getting all my vitamins in so i bought these vitamins that i saw another dr. g girl use. Theyre from "make me heal" and they have post and pre-op supplements. They were a bit pricy, well, only like 70 bucks but pricey none the less. They have no vitamin E and i figured it would be better then to cook me up a cocktail and not literally.

Somethings that are a must, mouth spray because your mouth will get dry! chap stick! i didn't realize how important those 2 things could be until i felt like my lip had seriously fallen off. i have not been able to sleep well and that's probably because Ive been sleeping through out the day, pretty much trying to hibernate until my nose gets better enough that i can finally go into work again and i can finally eat because i love food!!

well thats all for now, ill update tomorrow with pictures after this cast comes off. Cant wait to see it!