18 Year Old with a Huge Nose!!! Scottsdale, AZ

I have always been self conscious about my nose. It has a big hump and a bulbous tip. I knew people talked about it but no one said anything out loud to me until freshman year of high school. I got in a fight with a group of friends and they immediately started making fun of me for the size and shape of my nose. It made me sad, because there was nothing i could do. But I did not like the idea of a nose job, I didn't think my parents would let me, and i had no idea how I could ever afford it. Nevertheless, I was always still very self conscious about it. I felt like i was "that girl" who looks way prettier in photos than in person, because of my nose from a profile view. In August, senior year came around and drama occurred. Another group of friends went straight for my nose (honestly, because to them, it is probably my only flaw. My body is in great shape and i don't have to work for it, and i am naturally a pretty girl. My nose is the only feature that i don't like about myself.) On twitter they would say things like, "your nose is huge!!" "do you give guys back eyes when you kiss them?" "your nose is like a beak." "you need a nose job." "#nosejob" and they would use the bird emoji to refer to me. It made me very sad, but i knew these people were putting me down because of their own insecurities. I told my parents about what they said on Twitter to me and they were shocked their daughter was getting bullied for something she couldn't control. They proposed the idea of me getting rhinoplasty as their graduation present for me in May. They explained they would pay for half of the cost, and with my job i could pay for half as well. I decided to take on two jobs to make sure i had $3,000 by May. I worked at KidZone, an after school program at an elementary school for the kids who can't get picked up by their parents yet. Those kids had no filter at all and they said a lot of mean things to me. None of it affected me until a 5th grade boy came up to me, studied my face, and yelled "you have a really big nose!!". I was shocked he said that because i didn't realize kids even noticed things like that on adults. I was super self conscious and realized my nose job could not come fast enough. Needless to say, I quit that job 3 months in. I worked crazy hours at my other job and made a decent amount of money. I was really proud of myself and I have to admit i liked getting to brag to my friends about how i was about to have $3K in my savings that I earned all myself. So my mom and i found 3 doctors and i finally chose Dr. Meger in Scottsdale, AZ. He was nice and personable and seemed to know what i wanted! Soo... my surgery was this morning and now i am writing this review. When I first got home, i was really out of it from the anesthesia. I had some pain in my nose and eyes, but I decided just to take 2 tylenol instead of Percocet. Now i am in zero pain and i am just icing my eyes with frozen peas. I hope i am happy with the results. I am very hopeful as well as realistic. To me, any change will be good change. My only wish is that i do not have to get a revision later on in my life. I get the packing out of my nose on Friday and the splint off next Tuesday, so i will post pictures then. please comment anything you want to!!

Today is worse than yesterday. Well, this morning i got in a big fight with my mom and ending up crying and yelling, so that added to the swelling of my eyes and the bleeding of my nose. My eyes hurt pretty bad today and i cannot stop icing them. I have just been taking tylenol this entire time for pain but about an hour ago i finally took a tylenol as well as quarter of the pain medication. When I eat i can really feel my nose moving around and something that is annoying is the tip of my tongue is still numb and i still cannot taste anything. Tomorrow i get the packing out so hopefully i will be able to smell and taste more!!! I have attached two photos of what it looks like today.