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Rhinoplasty gone wrong

UPDATED FROM Rh.guide
2,018 years post

Botched

$9,000
Today I am told that my nose is botched. I put my full trust in my surgeon, and my nose was botched for a month and my doctor didn’t even admit it to me. I can’t believe how cruel and rude human beings can be. I thought I was over reacting, but I went to see another doctor because I stopped trusting my original surgeon and I was right. I am in severe depression, I still throw up everyday, I have panic attacks that are too long now. I throw up in public, and I now have a body of a baby - that’s how much weight I have lost. I’m in compete denial, and this doctor has not only caused me physical damage but also mental and emotional damage. I don’t think I’ll ever forgive her, because trust me I haven’t spent a day without crying, I have welcomed 2018 sitting in my sofa with a severe panic attack. I ended up in the ER and the urgent care. I can’t believe how inconsiderate this doctor is. I hope no more faces are being ruined. I’m not sure how I’m gonna energize for my next revision surgery, because now I know for sure my nose is ruined, and there’s Noway I’ll move on without a revision.

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Hang in there sweetie. I know it's hard. I had a ok primary but a less than stellar revision. I am only a month out as well and it's so hard.
Try and get ready and not look in the mirror...I know easier said than done.
It will get better.
Also, look into talking to someone like a therapist. It will really help. I am doing the same.
Hang in there
Thanks K2424 for the support and kind words, I stopped looking in the mirror. I only look with my nose covered just to remind myself of my face. I was hoping to see a therapist, it kills me to know that I’ll never look the same since you can’t go back to you original nose 100%. I wish you all the best in your recovery. Are you recovering from your revision?
Yes I am hanging in there. I am a month out. My primary had better results than my revision. My nose was straight, but now looks C shaped on one side with a shadow and I am praying it can be fixed.
I am looking into Le, Guyuron and David W Kim.
I totally understand we won't get our original nose back, but I know great improvements can be made.
Just keep busy I know it's so hard. A therapist or hobby will help and also researching revisionists has helped me. I have another 8-11 months to go before I can revise. My current surgeon is saying oh it's just a slight difference, but it's not.
I think my issue is with the mid vault or upper lateral cartilage. My tip also needs to be reahaped to be more symmetrical. I hate the thought of another surgery :(
I hope you’re doing well . Did you go ahead with revision. I had my revision done a month ago and my nose is very crooked
Me too, I hate the idea that I need to go through another surgery. Not knowing how I’m going to look like terrifies me. I stopped researching doctors because I can’t bare looking at more noses anymore. The first month, I did nothing but research and research. I will probably go back and look for doctors soon though :(... I have another 10 months to go, can’t wait but at the same time so nervous! My surgeon said it’s a slight difference too but its def ruined. Hope we get better results.. :(
I hear you. To them it's not a huge deal. My surgeon isn't a bad guy, he's craniofacial but he's not a revision surgeon. I should have done way more research than someone local. I just don't think he has enough rhinoplasty or really revision experience. After researching I think I am going to need that one side upper lateral cartilage fixed.
What surgeons have you looked at?
So far my top three are Le, David W Kim and Guyuron.
I’m considering Sam Most and David Pearson and Dean. They’re amazing and I like their before and afters. I think I want someone who can give me something natural. I honestly made sure to ask my principal surgeon that I wanted something completely natural even if it meant leaving a small portion of hump. Sadly, my hump was completely gone, and my nostrils became so pinched because my tip was bulbous and not it’s so tiny!! I hated the fake looking noses.. it was always one of my fears and it happened to me. That’s probably why I’m not taking it very well.. I understand, you should consider the doctors I mentioned, hopefully we end up with the best.
I heard another lady say Dr. Most as well. I will look into those docs.
Tourimi as in Dean Tourimi? I looked into him as he's only 3 hours from me, but he has had equally good and bad reviews :(
And he charges $22-$30K :(
The ones I keep see coming up (let me know if you have seen the same):
Tourimi (but the multiple bad reviews lately scare me)
Davis in FL
Most
Thomas Le Baltimore
Guyuron in Cleveland
Ion in London (no longer for the moment taking revisions)
I am focusing on Le right now because almost all his reviews are very good, and he does a 3hr plus consult. His surgeries are long but he basically rebuilds the nose if needed. And there are not a lot of before and after's online, he shows them in person, but the people I have contacted have had very good results. He follows up with pics for 2 years plus to ensure the results. He only also does 1 surgery a day.
Yes Dean Tourimi, I didn’t know he charges so much. I guess he’s off my list. :( I had so much hope in him.. I saw some bad reviews on Davis, but I talked to other people who had surgeries with him and they were happy. I don’t know who to trust anymore, I’m in so much pain I just want my nose to look normal again. Dr Most goes for the natural look, that’s why I am considering him. I tried look for Dr. Le on this page, but I couldn’t find him. I’m feeling really down and don’t know what to do anymore! :(
Yes Tourimi has good and bad, but I called and they told me he starts at $22K :(
Dr. Thomas Le in Baltimore Maryland. He's on here with amazing revision reviews. There are about 25 of them. He doesn't have a lot online because he shows you in person.
He's getting popular and booked out so I have a appointment for July for a consult.
It's 3 plus hours and he charges $75 per HALF hour but his surgeries I believe are in the $8-$14K range for revisions or so I have seen depending on length and complexity.
He takes about 6-10 hrs for surgery. His consults are so long because he looks at the nose down to the mm and wants to be sure you are mentally and physically able to do this.
I have spoken to 2 former patients who he did a great job and very happy and read about numerous others. He's low key and doesn't do a lot of marketing.
Look him up on make me heal as well.
Message me and we can talk more. Hang in there honey I know how you feel and before the year is over we will be fixed!
UPDATED FROM Rh.guide
2,018 years post

Learn how to love yourself

Getting this surgery has destroyed my life. This past month, I did nothing but cry, starve myself, felt sick to my stomach, and spent a lot of my days in the ER and the urgent care. I quit school, and I am now dependent on my family. I lost everything in just one day. If anyone is reading this, learn how to love yourself before getting a rhinoplasty. You are beautiful, you might not see it. We tend to see the imperfections, but we don’t see that those imperfections make us perfect. If you have a small hump, embrace it. If your nose is droopy, love it. Plastic surgery is not simple, it’s complicated. I wish I had loved myself instead trying to fix a little problem that made me beautiful. I had a little hump that I hated, and now I have uneven nostrils, alar rim retraction, upturned nose, piggy like, and no bridge at all. I destroyed something so beautiful, I ruined my life and I hurt so many people. If I could stop one person from doing the mistake, it would make me happy. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to to upload some pictures, but I’ll keep trying. If you think you need this surgery, think twice. Learn how to love yourself fully, and don’t try to change yourself.

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I feel the same way. I consider myself a good looking guy and went to have my nose straightened from a slight, maybe 1mm slant and the doctor destroyed my perfect nose. I’m not kidding, gave me half the nose I had and didn’t ever straighten it. It’s the only thing I can think about all day and night trying to go back in my head and see how this went so wrong. Now I’m stuck with this horrible nose and different face looking back at me in the mirror. I put my trust in the doctor and paid top dollar to get lied to and deceived from the beginning. Of course he lied about the notes as well and I even tried to get out of the surgery on surgery day because I knew something didn’t feel right and still got put under. This side of the medical field is so evil and even other doctor try and cover his in there notes when I asked a new ent for his notes for legal matters, I said he did the wrong procedure and they write “I didn’t get what I wanted”. I never thought this would ever happen to me. I even yelled it at the doctors face the day of surgery to remind him and he still messed it up. Sorry to read someone else is having the same experience because it really sucks, I feel like my Destany was stolen from me. Feel free to message me if you need someone to talk to. I’ve never talked to anyone else on the phone or in person who has had this happen and it might help. Nobody else will ever understand.
You said it perfectly I feel like my destiny was stolen from me. I read somewhere that in Chinese facial reading your nose determines a lot of factors in your life. So this really related to things I feel too. I want to be me again I want my life back.
Heya, I am having 100% the exact experience as you, including the trying to cancel, yet still getting lured into it. I wanted super subtle change, like maybe 0.5 mm or so, and the doc took half my nose off. I regularly checked myself in the mirror and thought I didn't need any procedures. The surgeon promised to be super conservative.
.. well he lied, and executed his original plan, took my hump off which I wanted to keep, shortened and even upturned my nose. It just looks weird. Also a guy and feel like my old self has died. I want to be me again because I don't know who I am now. He promised I'd be breathing better, which not surprisingly also was a lie. You cannot imagine how evil some of these surgeons are. No remorse, as long as they get their money.

It's my life's goal to become my old self again, restoring my hump, length, bulbous tip, nasal bones (for real, half the stuff he never even said he would do). Plastic surgeons should be held legally accountable if they do not listen to patient wishes, and should be jailed as such. So many malicious surgeons out there, that the field would be better off if the evil ones were in jail.
I spent so many wasted hours I could be living life and having fun looking up regenitive medicine and praying that someday I can get back to normal but it’s looking hopeless. The fact I’m going to be stuck with this forever unless getting rib or ear In my nose is unbearable to live with. I don’t think I’ll ever get over it. I feel like I will only be able to date a girl that’s had this problem so they somewhat understand what this is like. I took legal action and there is some hope of getting justice but no amount of money would get me back to how I was the days before this nightmare. What are some things that’s helped you?
I understand and relate so much. This whole journey is confusing and heartbreaking. I honestly still cover the mirrors, barely look at my face, and I try to stay busy ( reading & movies). I never had such issues before which makes things worse. I realized after surgery, I never actually hated my nose AT ALL. I just wanted a minor correction, but instead, my surgeon decided to give me a baby nose. The worst part is that my breathing is worse, I have constant pain, and my nose is blocked most of the time. When that happened, nothing can really be distracting. Have you tried contacting surgeons for a second opinion?
Happens*
Yes I never hated my nose either and I was never like this. I actually liked my nose I was just really insecure at the time since I was years for my nose before and I was going through a very bad relationship too where the person really made me feel bad about myself in a passive way. But I kept telling the surgeon that I liked my nose. Now all I can think about is my nose is awful it consumes my mind. I’ve cried everyday for the last 9 months. I was attractive and people say I still am but I notice a difference that I don’t get seen as often as before I look like a child not a woman and I also have breathing issues now. My right sinus is always blocked. I haven’t gone to many doctors for a second a opinion since I lost my job from depression. I sit at home with my mirrors covered. I try watching movies and shows to distract myself but I stare at peoples noses. I feel insane I was never like this I don’t know who I am I used to be so driven, grounded down to earth light hearted and fun. I had so many friends now I have no one. I feel alone and scared I don’t know what to do I feel worthless and lost. I wake up wishing to go back to sleep. Every morning is the worst before I open my eyes I can sense my nose and I know it’s back to this nightmare it doesn’t make sense. I never wanted plastic surgery in the first place. My friends don’t understand my mother wants me to move in with her I’m the opposite person who I used to be. I feel so much despair but try to push through everyday and live but I’m not truly living. I can’t even afford a therapist anymore.
I contacted dr shah in Denver and Dr. Hilinski in San Diego still need to see at least 10 surgeons I don’t trust anyone
It’s actually helped me to isolate myself and cover mirrors. Anyone who doesn’t understand or not empathetic is not someone I can interact with I don’t need their negativity and lack of understanding it only makes you feel crazy and alone. What has helped me is watching YouTube videos of others who have undergone massive trauma to their identity anywhere from acid attacks or accidents causing them permanent deformation and seeing them surpass such a tragic loss to their identity or everyday functional activities. It reminds me that it can be worse that I am healthy and loved by close friends and family and can be just as resilient as they are. A pro surfer who lost her arm to a shark, another woman who lost her nose completely to a drunk driver, another woman who was a victim of an acid attack to a jealous boyfriend they have been such advocates and strong personas. It’s not the exact same but it’s also similar in a way to this loss of identity. I listen to their stories and see the positivity in how they have chosen to triumph through this. It doesn’t mean I don’t have bad days. My confidence is nothing what it used to be and I don’t feel like I can be intimate with anyone anymore. A job interview is so difficult when they used to be easy for me. It’s really hard. No one should go through this loss of self this operation should honestly be illegal it’s too much of a risk and gamble
I relate to how easy it was to get work. The confidence I had is never going to be the same. I saw that movie with the shark attack about that girl but her accident happened doing something she loved and was an accident. We signed up for this and paid and that’s what makes it so hard to swallow. I didn’t really want anyone to know I got this done to fix the little break and now people honestly didn’t recognize me when I went home. This would be different if it was a small little change or something but I had a perfect strong looking nose and the dr gave me a ski slope and shrunk the hell out of it to where it’s tight against my face and I used to have this big foward projection. He cut down the nasal spine that extended my comella
I would recommend Dr Shah in Denver so far he’s the only one who’s given me reassurance I’m going to see a few more surgeons in NY
Has anyone geard of Joe Dispenza and his meditations? It sounds crazy but I have been trying it and i feel like its been changing very slowly. The thing with the nose is that small tweaks make a huge difference. The other thing i want to try is filler to help..
I am in the exact same position. Did you ever have revision ot just live with it?
If it is any consulation, cartilage engineering is achieving near native septal strength now and can be 3D printed in the original shape of your nose, and bone tissue emgineering is so advanced now that clinical trials may start within a few years. Same for many anti-fibrotic therapies. In another 5-10 years (20 if we're pessimistic), we may be able to get our old noses back with high accuracy, and without rib or ear grafts. But yeah, it is a nightmare indeed. My surgeon was a bad man. I knew it, and felt it in the consultations. So many red flags, yet it sometimes feels like some deity pushed me to do it. I still do not understand how this happened... Looking back I would've never gone to my surgeon.
I’m the opposite person as well. I’m moving with my sister to chill out and get a grip on this. I was outgoing care free and up for any kind of adventure and now I’m scared all the time, I wake up And want to scream. It’s the first thing I think about and the last, I keep thinking WTF just happened and how the hell did this happen to me. I was in recovery at the time and still am and had good experience with doctors in the past and can’t forgive myself for all the signs and opportunities I saw that this was not going to work out and somehow it happened. I kept looking at the positive stuff on the internet because I wanted to get this done and heard about the negatives but did not want to learn to much thinking I would chicken out, not knowing I was getting lied to about how it’s going to be done and using this doctor words to interpret outher peoples prices and procedures. This should have been so cheep and an easy fix and I was completely blind on how much I was getting deceived and hustled. I felt I like maybe I can help this guy in a way because I knew he seemed like he wanted to wreck me and his behavior was off but thought there was good in everyone and this will turn out ok, but the day of surgery I knew he was about to wreck me and tired so hard to get out and keep replaying those minutes in my head wishing I would have done more. It’s not me to let something like this happen. I was doing yoga and meditating everyday, centered and focused, eating super clean and working out and for some reason this month this happened. I did not journal about it a lot and my research was done from what I was told and was so off with everything I thought was going to happen and was focused on the results and was about to move to Belize that somehow this really happened and feel so stupid and beat myself up over it everyday. Now I eat whatever and get sick all the time thinking about the reality of what happened. It’s even hard to considerate on tv for a period time. I think about how I just want to die and what the hell im going to do when my money runs out. I can’t seem to get my mind off it. I had not had sex or been in a relationship in a year to work on myself and maybe the isolation made me think stupid and everytime I reached out to people about it they didn’t pick up and when I actually started getting some insight it was right near the date so the pressure was on to come out on top of this, jezzz was I so off. Talking to people on here really just today is making things better. I don’t want to go through life like this or with a fake nose filled with rib and ear, gosh I wish there was something I could do to get my nose back. I talked to Dr. Yoo on skype and he asked if I had thought about a chin implant wtf I’m a good looking guy I have won mr Myrtle beach there is nothing wrong with my chin you dick I called because my nose is ruined. I can’t believe I have to get another one of these pretentious jerks I thought cared about helping people to fix this mess.
You definitely don’t need a chin implant anyone offering something that you’re not even asking for is a red flag. Try Dr shah in Denver or Hilinski. I should’ve known that when I went in for this I never wanted a rhinoplasty but was talked into it. I used to be so healthy I went vegan life was great was such a boss at work. Now my life is a catastrophe. I don’t know what I’m going to do my money is running out and I’ve lost my unemployment payments. This side of medicine is so evil. I had a beautiful nose I loved it I feel so violated.
I can’t believe there is not more of the dangers more prominent than the magical outcomes in the media. Dr. Hilinski said my old nose was “gone” say goodbye, and he could only give me some features back. I was a big Dj and all entertainment work and called off everything because of the initial shock. I tried to play but my nerves were shot and kept running to the bathroom to see how bad my nose is. I never looked in the mirror this much and my damn phone is filled with pictures of my face and that’s it. I never was like this before and cared about everything else but it’s so consuming it has taken over. I’m going to try and quit with the mirrors but it’s going to be even more sad getting ready and before I run out the door smile in the mirror and get confidence. It’s been 5 months and my sinus headaches are insane and I never had a heakake before this. Did your dr do ostiotomys? Mine did lateral and medial for no damn reason and I saw a video of a doctor doing it and now I know why my head still hurts. All that chiseling on top of that I’m sure I have an insane concussion. My brain feels so different.... I hope you still have more beauty and more originalness in your nose than me. What all did your dr do?
I was beautiful and loved the fact that I looked like my mother, I had very strong features yet I looked stunning I look at old photos and think how could I have let someone make me feel so low and insecure that I needed to “fix” my strong nose. I was feminine in my own ways, I was always told how beautiful I was. Now I don’t get that. My friends tell me I look much younger, yeah cause I was given a child’s nose. I feel disgusted I hate myself my doctor shortened my nose narrowed the nasal tip when I had a beautiful nasal tip it dropped just a tiny bit but had a perfect round shape and my bridge was high with a slight small bump. My friend said I reminded her of like Athena but now look like a 16 years old. In photos I look ridiculous my features are no longer appealing something looks so off. I cry every day because I don’t see my identity I lost my family feature I lost my strong ethnic identity. And yes it sounds shallow I don’t care anymore I loved myself as I was I was unique my imperfections were perfect. This surgeon did whatever he wanted and then said “I make beautiful noses” I’m not a cacausin blonde Barbie, I’m dark haired olive skinned mixed with everything. This looks and feels so wrong
Sorry to hear how he messed you up. The identity situation will take some time with me as well. I have so much regret. I didn’t even realize how people’s imperfections make them perfect. I had pretty straight teeth and got Invisalign right before this as well. I was trying to fix all my small imperfections before I moved thinking nobody would know if something got messed up and forgot how the hell I would feel about it. I wish I ran this by a therapist or more people. I hope this shock goes away soon. I was really bad until 2 weeks ago, holding around all this resentment towards the doctor and myself really took over my whole body. I only enjoy eating and am so nervous I started smoking which is gross and feel like I’m killing myself. My whole system of my body is off since this. I used to watch infinite waters on YouTube and he talked about Fibonacci scale and how everything works together and never thought about it with my body. Someone was talking about how much cutting off your pinky toe does to your mobility and I’m changing my nose on purpose! Like wtf was I thinking messing with something that’s not medically needed to be worked on. I’m doing everything natural as possible in life and I try and fix my nose. I feel so vain and narcissistic doing this but I thought if I didn’t take care of myself first how can I help others well, not thinking this could be a down payment on a house. I read an article talking about how Insurence would cover this and paid all this insurance money as well and did all the appeals and they didn’t cover anything and had to pay all that as well. Not one thing turned out right with any aspect of this and never felt so damn broken.
That’s wild I Also remembered the concept of Fibonacci and how everything is scaled to perfect proportion in nature right after my surgery. I always thought we should never play god and now m like wtf was I thinking this isn’t me . I was also using Invisalign right before and doing lots of natural things for my body I have no idea why I would do this my friends and family shocked
So broken. I feel like I’m being punished. But I don’t understand how anyone deserves this mental torture. The last 10 months have not been life, I live in my room scared of the world my identity is lost. I cannot take a photo without panic and despair.
Pictures is what got me into this mess. The only thing I was seeing was the shading from bad lighting and thought it was worse than it was. To know that after the fact I feel so stupid. I keep going over all my notes and I was supposed to have moved the date foward and didn’t do it. I feel like I really died that day and I’m a lost soul with no more sprit in me. That stupid rhino scar is the devil. The main thing I miss is my strong since of smell. It’s sucks when they take off a lot from your bridge because all that skin goes to your cheeks and makes me look older. I had a nice tight perfect look and everything in life was easy. I tried to tell the therapist about how I can’t take being normal and she looked at me like I’m crazy but she doesn’t know what it’s like to get anything and everything you want and life is easy and everything is so simple. Now everything is sucks
Yea no therapist understands it’s really hard you can’t even get counseling for this. I’ve gotten really into finding a solution to this try finding someone who can sculpt and accurately measured nose and face mold for you so if oh want a revision you can have the doctor go off those measurements it’s the best thing I can think of. Our bodies are made to a specific proportion based on our DNA’s own form of developing
In theory new 3D printed scaffolds with tissue engineered cartilage or bone induction (or 3D printed PCL or molded rib like done in Asia already) can bring you back reaaaally close to your original nose. I wish surgeons sould start experimenting with it more... The science is largely there.

How are you guys doing now? Any revisions?
I saw the perfect swirl from my side view of perfect proportion before the surgery. I should have ran and so many different times. Where did you find the sculpture artist? How would I look that up? I saw in other countries there doing the 3D tissue making it from your body’s stem cells. I’ve been looking up everything! I saw how they regenerated a mans finger tip with pigs bladder. I was about to go to a bbq restaurant and ask for it and stick it up my nose lol. I don’t give a f’ anymore until I get this fixed. This is going to be an adventure for sure and hope to god I find something before I go broke.
Same I also saw the perfect proportions from my side and it thought I really like my nose. The office manager said some messed up stuff to convince me that I didn’t like my nose which is so unethical. I called a sculpture store in NYC Asking for the best facial sculpture artist. I also posted a job online on upwork website describing what I was looking for. Still haven’t started the mold but I’ve received some drafts of a 3D rendering and I think it is possible that I can accomplish this. I’ve also heard of ormus being regenerative not sure if it’s a scam. The skin on my nose has changed since the surgery it’s probably TMI but if I ever pop a blackhead now my skin on my nose bleeds a lot where before it never used to. This also makes me nervous for a revision. This surgery is no joke it shouldn’t be legal too much risk.
Also if you do anything regenerative I wouldn’t suggest you let anyone experiment or use foreign objects to build your nose like implants or cadaver pieces from someone else. Our bodies our made to reject things that do not match our DNA.
Do your friends and family ever get on your case saying oh you never help yourself you’re not helping yourself you can’t just roll over and die. But honestly they have no idea.
Luckily tissue engineering uses your own fat cells, expand them and differentiate them into cartilage :). No foreign material needed! Another way could be hydrogels or dECM matrixes, inducing your own tissue to grow into the scaffolds! All your own DNA. I hope practices start experimenting with these tools soon, it could get us very close to our old noses (and perhaps even with a mobile tip, if 3D graft designs are properly designed, and anti-fibrotics reverse most scar tissue)
UPDATED FROM Rh.guide
2,018 years post

Getting worse

Has anyone gone through a successful revision rhinoplasty? It would mean the world to me if anyone could share if they were able to restore half of their old nose back. I know that I can’t go back 100% to my old nose but even 80% would be enough. I’m really regretting every single step and this decision. From this day forward, I don’t think my life will ever be the same. It’s ruined.

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Has anything helped or did you get a revision?
Nothing has helped yet I haven’t gotten a revision yet. I still cry everyday and I’m so sad. I’m scared to get a revision because I don’t trust anyone I don’t want my rib or ears cut into but also I don’t want to live with this new nose I hate.
Do a CT scan to see if you have sufficient septum leftover. You might be lucky! Other than that, PCL can be 3d printed and has been used as spreader grafts, septal extension graft, and many other applications with success in Asia. I hope Western surgeons catch up, or use even more modern tools (tissue engineering). The revision field has been nearly stagnant for like the past 70 years, except for nanofat, PRO and hyperbaric oxygen... Some innovations are welcome.
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