Sharing My Rhinoplasty Recovery Experience

So it's been almost a year, and I figured I would update some photos so people can see me without the swelling and what a year's worth of time looks like. Again, I don't have many pictures but here are a few.

The only things that bother me in which I have noticed now that I didn't have before my surgery are:

- I have developed worse allergies and sneeze more. That may or may not have anything to do with the surgery but its noticeable.
- the doctor told me to wait three weeks to wear my glasses or sun glasses to prevent indentions in the bridge of my nose that would become permanent... Which I did.... And yet I now feel an indention in the bone of my bridge from wearing my glasses and take them off (it's always there, but not that noticeable on the surface, but I can deff. Feel it if I rub the bridge).
- the tip of my nose never feels the same since the surgery. It's not a totally freaking out bad sort of thing, but it just never fully regained all of the feeling like it did before the surgery. It doesn't interfere with my life or anything and I never notice it unless I fiddle around with it or press really hard trying to feel all up on it. Lol

That is it though!

---- UPDATE 11-11-12 ----

Hello everyone! I posted some new pictures last night in response to the requests to see my progress and to just keep giving a good perspective to anyone who might be looking to get this procedure done. As of now I am still EXTREMELY happy with the results of my procedure and very thankful for the job my surgeon did and with the look of my new nose.

I am now 6 months post surgery. If you look at my before and current pictures, you can easily see the differences in my nose. The only thing that I still see as a current symptom of post-surgery recovery is that the tip is still a bit swollen. Dr. Stein has assured me that this should continue to see improvement and that a nose is not completely recovered from surgery (meaning that the swelling will not completely subside) until a full year has passed since the procedure.

One other note, I realized (as of this update) that I had incorrectly listed the price of my procedure. I had forgotten to include the $500 deposit into the final price (my husband remembered, but I didn't) so that's why that has changed since my previous updates.

So, that's about it from me for this update post. Thank you for all the support and encouragement and positive interest that everyone has been expressing. Surgery--especially cosmetic surgery--is often not an easy choice, but it's great communities like this full of caring people that make it possible for those of us who are scared or feeling alone to make the best choice for ourselves. Thank you again!!

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November 2012,

All swelling except te tip is swollen still a tad. Somedays it feels more swollen than others, but it's barely noticeable. To me I think it should be smaller, but when I try to picture it... Any smaller and it wouldn't look right on me. Either way...

I still have a few months to see the "full" results.

Ultimately I just love it. I really can't believe I didn't do it sooner and I feel like I would have been forever regretting it if I didn't do it.

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