My primary rhinoplasty with Dr. Ali Evlice review/experience

If you're looking for a review on the process of my surgery and things like that, I have another post with details on all of that. This one is how the next 2 months of healing have gone. I want to start by saying that I absolutely love my results from Dr. Ali and he is an artist in his specialty. The first 3 weeks after surgery I looked like an avatar (The Blue people movie) and not even makeup could make me look normal. I didn't have any visible bruising but my face was puffy and just looked a little off. Luckily I did a lot of research before getting my procedure so I knew what to expect but some days it really was scary to think that my face could stay looking like that. I'll say exactly one month after surgery is when I felt really confident in my new nose and face. My face wasn't as puffy and my nose looked really good with makeup. I still had dark circles under my eyes without makeup but I would much rather have to put on concealer everyday than deal with my old crooked nose. Now 2 months after surgery and it's obviously even slimmer and better. Every single day after surgery your nose will look better and better and it'll probably continue like that for the next year but so far I'm only 2 and a half months post op and I still love my nose more everyday. Before I had my nose done I wish I found more reviews like this about my doctor so I'm hoping this helps someone. Again, everyone has a different recovery process and I'm very pleased with the professionalism of Dr. Ali Evlice's work and recovery process for myself

I want to write a very detailed review of my experience because I know this is what I wish I had when I was looking into getting my rhinoplasty. Read the whole thing before any questions because I'm sure I'll cover most questions you have. I found Dr. Ali on Instagram after knowing I wanted to change my nose. I wrote his assistant on whatsapp and it was a bit sketchy. The responses were very dry and not professional I feel. (I've read other reviews and everyone says the same thing). A lot of other doctors have better responses to inquiries but at the end of the day Dr. Ali had the results I wanted and since I seen people all over the world going to him I figured if those people could go through with it I should too.I had to wire a deposit of 300 euros to secure my appointment. I asked about booking a hotel and the assistant said not to worry that he would book it for me (hotel stay and flight are not included in rhinoplasty price). This was October 1st. I was flying in on October 24th. Every week I messaged the assistant about confirmation of my hotel, he told me not to worry, he has everything covered.
Oct 23rd comes (the day of my flight) he still hasn't sent me confirmation of the hotel but instead tells me the hotel doesn't have anymore room. I'm mad because I told him I could have booked it in advance but instead he's waiting for the day of my flight to book?!My flight leaves in a couple of hours and then he tells me he has a room for me at the Sheraton but never sent me any confirmation. I nervously get on my flight anyway, make it to the hotel, and they tell me I am only booked for 4 nights when I'm supposed to be there for 10 nights. I message the assistant he says it's getting worked out and again, not to worry.
The next day I have my consultation and as I'm going up the elevator there's a girl in the elevator with me that has a splint on her nose so I know she just got hers done and I ask how it went. She said she had to fly back to turkey from Paris because the pain from her surgery is so unbearable and that that's not normal but for some reason her recovery was not going well. (Now I'm really nervous).I get into Dr. Ali's office and he takes a look at my nose and then gives me the expectation of what would happen if I go through with the surgery. No nose is perfect but that he tries to get the overall look of your face to look good with the new nose. One thing I appreciate from him is that he told me a lot of reasons of why someone shouldn't get nose surgery and it seems like he was giving me perspective instead of encouraging or pushing me to get surgery he actually seemed to be telling me that I didn't need the surgery and that its good to think it through and his assistant would message me later that night to ask if I wanted to proceed.My consultation was maybe 10 minutes. From hearing all of that from him, and seeing the girl in the elevator be in terrible pain and tell me she regrets getting the surgery even though she hated her old nose, I started to contemplate my decision even though I was so sure of it just the day before.
I spent the night doing insane research to find other people who went to this doctor and I found 2 girls on instagram who went to him and messaged them and luckily they got back to me. They both told me the same thing; the surgery was painless and they were in love with the results.As I spent time looking in the mirror that night (hating my nose), taking pictures of myself to see if I could really continue on with the nose I hated, looking through Dr. Ali's Instagram several more times, I realized that if I was ever going to get a rhinoplasty, HE was my top pick doctor, I'm already here in Turkey, and I trusted his expertise.
Even though the girl in the elevator scared me immensely, I knew that she was a rare case(although that is still a risk), I decided to go through with it. I spent time that night meditating and saying affirmations to myself (saying "you are healthy and happy" to myself over and over again to get that into my subconscious and hopefully give me the outcome I wanted to be safe through it all).The next morning I went to the hospital for the surgery and they had me wait in a very nice suite that I would be spending 24 hours after the surgery in. Again, I went to turkey alone so it started hitting me that I was about to go into surgery and I had a mini panic attack in the room but calmed myself down before they came to get me. I also kept telling myself that I'm healthy and ready.
They eventually came to my room to roll my bed into the OR. The lady asked me to inhale as she put the thing over my mouth for anesthesia. I remember taking in 2 breaths, and after a 20 minute nap (or so it seemed), they were shaking me to wake up and that the surgery was over. It literally felt like I took a tiny nap and they were telling me I had my new nose!I couldn't believe it was over already. I remember watching a girl on YouTube who did a review of her rhinoplasty with Dr. Ali and she said she couldn't speak after surgery which was also a rare side effect so I immediately started talking and asking questions to make sure my voice was ok and they basically told me I'm talking too much and to relax LOL. I was loopy from the anesthesia and pain killers they put in my IV so I was definitely talking more than I should have but I just wanted to make sure I could talk haha.
They rolled me back into my suite and I got my phone to look in my front camera. I had a splint over my nose but OMG! My nose was already noticeably straighter and the tip of my nose was way better already.I also had no bruising and no swelling. I looked completely normal just with bandage over my nose. The fact that it happened so quick (or at least the surgery felt quick to me) was so relieving since I was panicking a little beforehand.
I was fine for a little and then out of nowhere I got nauseous, leaned over my bed, and puked up blood. A lot of blood. Oddly, it didn't feel bad. I clicked the button for a nurse to come and they cleaned it. Dr. Ali came in and I asked if that was normal. He said because blood starts going down your nose and down your throat during surgery, there's blood sitting in my stomach but it's not that I'm bleeding out, just that blood went down my throat and into my stomach and it needs to come out.It made sense and again, it felt normal so I wasn't worried. That happened 3 times. They brought me food which looked really good but since I was a little nauseous I didn't end up eating that whole day. I was also loopy from the drugs so I slept a lot. My phone also hurt my eyes so I couldn't do anything but sleep.
The next day I still felt normal, no pain at all! Literally the only thing was that was uncomfortable was to breath through my mouth but other than that I felt normal as any other day. I could also use my phone again this day without much problem. The assistant showed me how to use my medications, I paid for everything, got discharged and went to my hotel.
I slept A LOT for the first 3 days. I just ordered room service and slept for the most part.They told me a couple days in my eyes might shut from swelling and that it's normal but I had absolutely NO swelling on my face and no bruising the entire time. (I ate really healthy and clean 2 weeks before surgery and during my time in turkey so I really do believe that helped. I ate things like vegetable soup, vegetable stew over rice, smoothies, water with every meal, chicken and veggies and rice, just lots of veggies in general, etc) Even the assistant said I looked way better than the other patients because I'm telling you I looked completely normal, NOT like I just had surgery. And I also had no pain whatsoever. Again, the only thing that I felt was different in my life was that I couldn't breath through my nose.Day 7 after my surgery I went in to get my splint and tampons out of my nose removed. This was my first time really seeing my nose. It did have swelling on the bridge of my nose so it looked wide but I could tell how the results will look when its healed and it looks AMAZING and exactly what I wanted. Dr. Ali is an artist and I'm so happy to have had such an easy surgery and recovery process. Today is actually day 7 after surgery that I'm writing this so I do want to make another update when the swelling on my bridge goes away but like I said I can see what it will look like and I'm in love.
Surgery always comes with a chance of risk so I'm very blessed to have had an easy surgery and recovery and I would never encourage someone to go through surgery unless they know for a fact they want to do it.I hope if you're thinking about it that this review helps and know that every person heals and reacts differently so make sure to prepare your mind, body, and soul for surgery and to take care of yourself in your decision!
Now, with the thing about the hotel. Remember I said they told me I was only booked 4 nights? That never got changed. I had to checkout because they were completely booked they said. I messaged the assistant again and he apologized and told me to check out and that he was working on it. And again, told me not to worry. I was PISSED.I was even more pissed because he kept telling me not to worry but I wouldn't have to worry if he didn't wait last minute for everything. I wanted to rest but now I had nowhere to go and the hotels online were also all booked. After about an hour he called me and told me there was a mistake and that I could check back in and I got my same room back. Idk what happened but my only issue with this experience was how unprofessional the guy responding on WhatsApp is and that he does everything last minute.I'm a person who needs to have everything booked and ready ESPECIALLY if I'm in a country that I don't know and never have been to. The thought that I had no hotel or place to go was terrible. Luckily like I said whatever issue happened was resolved within an hour and I got to stay at the same hotel but the fact that I had to pack all my stuff in the room while I was trying to recover and rest and go through that stress was so unnecessary and they definitely need to find someone to handle the WhatsApp inquiries and bookings better.