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Terrible recovery and I still hate my nose.
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Terrible Recovery and Still Hate my Nose.
I had a rhinoplasty done in May 2016, so apologies for many forgotten details!
I had a horrible nose that I've always despised and wish I could change. I went with dr. Hilinski because I liked his before and after photos on his website and he is local to me.
In the end, I had a terrible experience with recovery, I still despise my nose, and hope for a revision someday.
My old nose was so terrible that I wanted it to look absolutely nothing like what it use to. Unfortunately, I would say the result is a just a slightly improved version of the old one, so it's still ugly.
I never really had an issue with dr. Hilinski himself, he was always friendly to me and I was comfortable. But I made it clear I wanted a much smaller nose and he never really said that it wasn't possible, just that he couldn't guarantee it. I accepted this because I knew my nose would be difficult to work with and was hoping that at least the shape would be nice even if it's not as small as I wanted. I couldn't even get that, the shape is still reminiscent of the old one. It's crooked, totally asymmetrical, and wide. The only plus was the removal of a large dorsal hump, but there is still tiny bump now.
Going into surgery was fine, all of the staff was very kind as I fell asleep quickly. Waking up was terrible! I was trembling uncontrollably and could barely walk, so much that it frightened me and I was holding back tears. I only remember the dr saying that my surgery was extremely difficult and took a lot longer than expected. Well that's not a good thing to hear! Meanwhile, the nurse confidently said "Your nose is very small now, you're going to love it!" that was a blatant lie...
I went home and went right to sleep from pain killers. The following recovery was the worst! I was in so much pain that I continuously took the pain killers I was given just to stay asleep for the entire first week, this is is not an exaggeration. I lost weight because I didn't want to get up and eat.
After one week was when I got the cast off. I always heard about people being so excited when the cast is first taken off right before it starts to swell the most. Unfortunately, I was immediately very disappointed. It was absolutely massive, comically so. It didn't even look real! I didn't know how to react.. Of course, the dr reassured it would go down, but it was obvious there's no way it would get to a size I would be happy with.
Then for several more months I was still in a lot of pain. I had headaches, a constant severe sore throat, and dry mouth that made it impossible to sleep. Also, I for some reason had a very sharp pain on the inside of my nose for many months. It just felt like something small and sharp was constantly stabbing the inside of my nose. I thought for sure it was just a stitch or something, but once those were gone the pain still remained. Even the dr didn't seem to know what was causing it. I just dealt with it and it randomly disappeared one day, but healing was a terrible experience.
I can't remember which was suggested first, but it seemed like pretty early on we were constantly messing with my nose in an attempt to correct the shape. I was taping my nose every single day for many many months. And then at some point when we realized my nose was still crooked, I was suggested to pinch it everyday with emphasis to push on one side more than the other in an attempt to center it. To this day I have no idea whether this even did anything at all or made it worse. It clearly did not help to center it.
Once most of the swelling had subsided, he did several steroid injections over a few months to try and shrink the side that was more crooked as well as try to remove a small bump still left on my nose bridge. Again I'm not sure I can tell whether this did anything.
After one year and three months and still unsatisfied, we decided to do a rasping to try and even it out. Before the rasping, there was some lumpiness to my nose that looked jagged. I'm not sure how to describe it. The rasping smoothed that out a bit, but again it did nothing for the crookedness or small bump still on the bridge. In fact, there now seems to be a small indent in the bridge as well as a bump. I'm not sure where in the process this indent happened.
The last thing that I was suggested before I stopped going back was to just put filler into one side of my nose to possibly make it more even. He insisted that he thinks it would help, but I decided against it because my nose is already too wide and filler would just make it wider, so I wasn't sure if that would actually be much of an improvement.
Now, I'm still very self-conscious about my nose and hope to get a revision someday. After all the pain it caused, it's an extremely disappointing result.
I had a horrible nose that I've always despised and wish I could change. I went with dr. Hilinski because I liked his before and after photos on his website and he is local to me.
In the end, I had a terrible experience with recovery, I still despise my nose, and hope for a revision someday.
My old nose was so terrible that I wanted it to look absolutely nothing like what it use to. Unfortunately, I would say the result is a just a slightly improved version of the old one, so it's still ugly.
I never really had an issue with dr. Hilinski himself, he was always friendly to me and I was comfortable. But I made it clear I wanted a much smaller nose and he never really said that it wasn't possible, just that he couldn't guarantee it. I accepted this because I knew my nose would be difficult to work with and was hoping that at least the shape would be nice even if it's not as small as I wanted. I couldn't even get that, the shape is still reminiscent of the old one. It's crooked, totally asymmetrical, and wide. The only plus was the removal of a large dorsal hump, but there is still tiny bump now.
Going into surgery was fine, all of the staff was very kind as I fell asleep quickly. Waking up was terrible! I was trembling uncontrollably and could barely walk, so much that it frightened me and I was holding back tears. I only remember the dr saying that my surgery was extremely difficult and took a lot longer than expected. Well that's not a good thing to hear! Meanwhile, the nurse confidently said "Your nose is very small now, you're going to love it!" that was a blatant lie...
I went home and went right to sleep from pain killers. The following recovery was the worst! I was in so much pain that I continuously took the pain killers I was given just to stay asleep for the entire first week, this is is not an exaggeration. I lost weight because I didn't want to get up and eat.
After one week was when I got the cast off. I always heard about people being so excited when the cast is first taken off right before it starts to swell the most. Unfortunately, I was immediately very disappointed. It was absolutely massive, comically so. It didn't even look real! I didn't know how to react.. Of course, the dr reassured it would go down, but it was obvious there's no way it would get to a size I would be happy with.
Then for several more months I was still in a lot of pain. I had headaches, a constant severe sore throat, and dry mouth that made it impossible to sleep. Also, I for some reason had a very sharp pain on the inside of my nose for many months. It just felt like something small and sharp was constantly stabbing the inside of my nose. I thought for sure it was just a stitch or something, but once those were gone the pain still remained. Even the dr didn't seem to know what was causing it. I just dealt with it and it randomly disappeared one day, but healing was a terrible experience.
I can't remember which was suggested first, but it seemed like pretty early on we were constantly messing with my nose in an attempt to correct the shape. I was taping my nose every single day for many many months. And then at some point when we realized my nose was still crooked, I was suggested to pinch it everyday with emphasis to push on one side more than the other in an attempt to center it. To this day I have no idea whether this even did anything at all or made it worse. It clearly did not help to center it.
Once most of the swelling had subsided, he did several steroid injections over a few months to try and shrink the side that was more crooked as well as try to remove a small bump still left on my nose bridge. Again I'm not sure I can tell whether this did anything.
After one year and three months and still unsatisfied, we decided to do a rasping to try and even it out. Before the rasping, there was some lumpiness to my nose that looked jagged. I'm not sure how to describe it. The rasping smoothed that out a bit, but again it did nothing for the crookedness or small bump still on the bridge. In fact, there now seems to be a small indent in the bridge as well as a bump. I'm not sure where in the process this indent happened.
The last thing that I was suggested before I stopped going back was to just put filler into one side of my nose to possibly make it more even. He insisted that he thinks it would help, but I decided against it because my nose is already too wide and filler would just make it wider, so I wasn't sure if that would actually be much of an improvement.
Now, I'm still very self-conscious about my nose and hope to get a revision someday. After all the pain it caused, it's an extremely disappointing result.
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