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Waiting to See... - Glendale, CA
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At first I was going to try and make my pictures...
FightOn91May 1, 2013
$8,500
At first I was going to try and make my pictures as anonymous as possible, but in the end my surgery became mostly medical (insurance is even going to pay, since I actually ended up needing it!) and I am really bad at keeping secrets and already told most people...also please don't say anything mean or discouraging, I already am having a hard time...thanks!
I am writing this review for support, because right now I feel like I need it more than ever. Like most people on here, my nose has bugged me for years. Although at times, I would be fine with it and it wouldn't bug me. About once every other year since I can remember, I have broken my nose. Every time it would break I would become more and more aware of how much I hated it. People told me not to fix it, and that they couldn't see anything wrong with it. According to them I had "no bad angles" and it was all in my head. Unfortunately the "all in my head" was getting to be too much and I was getting pretty insecure, plus I knew something was wrong on the inside of my nose since I could no longer breath out of it Finally, I had some money saved so my mom convinced me to go to a doctor and have him look at my nose and see if there was any medical reason for me to get it fixed (since I suspected there was). The first thing the doctor said was "Do not touch your nose, you're beautiful and so is your nose" but I insisted and we discovered at the very least my cartilage in the front of my nose was collapsing and I had an extremely deviated septum. I had already done tons of research so I knew if I was going to get my nose fixed this was going to be the guy. I set my appointment for April 23rd.
Day of surgery April 23rd, 2013,
I ended up having to wait for 3 hours, since one patient came really late before me and then his surgery ran over. No big deal. The nurses were super nice. Everything went great. I remember having a dream when I was under anesthesia that I chickened out of getting the surgery so I was extremely scared when I woke up and was getting out of surgery...has anyone else dreamed under anesthesia? After surgery my mom informed me that it had taken about triple the time that was expected since the inside of my nose was an absolute mess. 100x worse than expected. Anyways home I went for recovery.
Recovery was annoying more than anything. The cast was itchy and in the way. I felt dirty. And extremely sluggish. My mom had flown into town to help me, and she forced me out of the house a lot which was pretty traumatic having people staring at me constantly.
Ok now that brings us to today....4/30/13 day of cast removal
One of his assistants removed my cast. There was no pain at all. She then removed the splits on the inside of my nose, which also didn't hurt or feel discomfort during. Then the doctor came in, felt my bones to make sure I hadn't refractured anything (I hit my face once on post op day 4 so I was terrified that I had). I was all good. He told me how natural and great I looked. I didn't look in a mirror, no clue why. He tapes up my nose and sends me home. I get home, and immediately take a nap. I just woke up, and I finally went to look in the mirror. My heart literally dropped. The bumps that I hated are gone. But now I have this HUGE bulbous tip. I know it's just swelling. But still. I felt like with the swelling it would've looked like the size my nose did before not 10x bigger than before. I don't look or feel like me anymore, which is what I stressed to him I wanted the most. People on this site keep saying they know their nose is swollen now but it still looks 100x better than before. I feel like now my nose looks 100x worse than before. The bridge does look great though. Its just the piggish tip that is scaring me. I will keep updating.
I am writing this review for support, because right now I feel like I need it more than ever. Like most people on here, my nose has bugged me for years. Although at times, I would be fine with it and it wouldn't bug me. About once every other year since I can remember, I have broken my nose. Every time it would break I would become more and more aware of how much I hated it. People told me not to fix it, and that they couldn't see anything wrong with it. According to them I had "no bad angles" and it was all in my head. Unfortunately the "all in my head" was getting to be too much and I was getting pretty insecure, plus I knew something was wrong on the inside of my nose since I could no longer breath out of it Finally, I had some money saved so my mom convinced me to go to a doctor and have him look at my nose and see if there was any medical reason for me to get it fixed (since I suspected there was). The first thing the doctor said was "Do not touch your nose, you're beautiful and so is your nose" but I insisted and we discovered at the very least my cartilage in the front of my nose was collapsing and I had an extremely deviated septum. I had already done tons of research so I knew if I was going to get my nose fixed this was going to be the guy. I set my appointment for April 23rd.
Day of surgery April 23rd, 2013,
I ended up having to wait for 3 hours, since one patient came really late before me and then his surgery ran over. No big deal. The nurses were super nice. Everything went great. I remember having a dream when I was under anesthesia that I chickened out of getting the surgery so I was extremely scared when I woke up and was getting out of surgery...has anyone else dreamed under anesthesia? After surgery my mom informed me that it had taken about triple the time that was expected since the inside of my nose was an absolute mess. 100x worse than expected. Anyways home I went for recovery.
Recovery was annoying more than anything. The cast was itchy and in the way. I felt dirty. And extremely sluggish. My mom had flown into town to help me, and she forced me out of the house a lot which was pretty traumatic having people staring at me constantly.
Ok now that brings us to today....4/30/13 day of cast removal
One of his assistants removed my cast. There was no pain at all. She then removed the splits on the inside of my nose, which also didn't hurt or feel discomfort during. Then the doctor came in, felt my bones to make sure I hadn't refractured anything (I hit my face once on post op day 4 so I was terrified that I had). I was all good. He told me how natural and great I looked. I didn't look in a mirror, no clue why. He tapes up my nose and sends me home. I get home, and immediately take a nap. I just woke up, and I finally went to look in the mirror. My heart literally dropped. The bumps that I hated are gone. But now I have this HUGE bulbous tip. I know it's just swelling. But still. I felt like with the swelling it would've looked like the size my nose did before not 10x bigger than before. I don't look or feel like me anymore, which is what I stressed to him I wanted the most. People on this site keep saying they know their nose is swollen now but it still looks 100x better than before. I feel like now my nose looks 100x worse than before. The bridge does look great though. Its just the piggish tip that is scaring me. I will keep updating.
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