Rhinoplasty Dorsal Hump Removal - Melbourne, Australia

I have always hated my nose and felt that people were constantly looking at me differently because of it. Also, little things like when wearing glassess, they would be too high. I made a decision about five years ago but I am very nervous now.

I go into surgery in one hour and im freaking out. Ive never been to hospital or had general anaethesia. Im so worried. My mum is so angry about it and I have only told my dad its a sinus operation. I hope I've made the right decision. Im so scared of the pain.

Well I survived surgergy! I was emotional when I was waiting in the hospital but the nurses were great and helped to calm me down. The operation took about 3 hours. Once I came to, I was wheeled into my room. My first feeling was of pressure on my nose but also on my eyes. I could feel myself swelling quite a lot. I put ice packs on my eyes to help with the discomfort. I wasn't in any great deal of pain, which was a relief! Also I was very happy that I had handled anaethesia well. I was prescribed endone and panadol and that seemed to help quite a bit. I ate as soon as I came out of surgery as I was starving. I did not sleep at all the first night though, as I would keep waking myself up because of my heavy breathing.


Day 1- after surgery. That morning I left the hospital and I was still feeling fine. My face felt very very swollen though. I camped up infront of the couch and watched a movie marathon with my boyfriend. I was eating soft foods as it hurts to chew. I took two endone before bed that night and it helped me to sleep better.

Day 2- This day would be my worst. My black eyes were very red and swollen. The swelling has moved down my face to around my mouth which was causing alot of discomfort. The worst thing this day was the side effect of the pain killer. Normally I have a sensitve stomach, which I thoguht it was weird that I was handling the endone so well. It all caught up with my that day. After about 2 hours of constant nausea I vomitted. I was soo scared because I thought i would choke and stuff something up in with my nose. Luckily, it was fine. Once all the food was out I was good again. The nurse from the ps rang asking hwo I was, I explained to her the nausea and she said it happens quite alot with this type of pain killer and to keep with the paracetomol and ib profen. I didnt eat anything else that day and took a sleeping pill before bed. I have pain behind my head/neck from laying down as well as an extremely sore throat.

Day 3- I feel alot better today. I accidently took two endone in the morning thinking they were paracetemol. After the nausea and the vomit I felt fine again. Silly me! I am starting to eat normal. Its hard to think what to eat thats healthy and with low salt. My swelling is starting to go yellow and the swelling is moving down my face. I am still icing it. I looked at my throat today with a torch and could see that the uvulva is incredibly swolllen. Tomorrow I get the stitches out. I am worried about the pain as I have heard they can hurt quite a bit! I am going to make sure they are clean and I've had enough pain killers before it.

Day 4-Well I had the stitches removed. The nurse took them out as she said that she's a lot more gentle then the ps. I dont know if thats a good thing, considering he did my actual op? Anyway the stitches came out relatively easy with little discomfort. I took strong pain killers before so maybe that helped. The internal ones were a little more trickier and at times stung.

I have developed three mouth ulcers next to my uvula in my throat. They are the worst ulcers I have had. The ps said this was from the trauma of the mouth tube. I cant drink or eat without covering them in bonjela.

But overall I am fine!

Day 5-7 Over the next few days my bruising has gone done immensely. I am only on panadol for pain relief and that seems fine. A big problem is sleeping. I keep waking up every few hours with my tongue feeling like sand paper. I have tried a humidifier but to no avail. I can breathe out of my nose a little however cannot get a full breath from it. At present I keep getting a whoff of bad smell when i clean out one of my nostrils. Sort of like manure, its very gross! I get my cast off on Saturday. I originally had it scheduled for Monday however I asked the ps to do it earlier so I could go to a family tea on the Sunday. I thought this was very nice of the ps to do this on his day off. My worry now is that if my nose looks ridiciously bad what am I going to do about the party, haha. The nurse said I should have some swelling the next day so here's me hoping that I dont look too swollen and disformed. My nose looks okay atm, however it seems very bulbous and my nostrils look flared. I hope this is only temporary.