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Let me just start by saying I wanted to get this...
jd49106May 4, 2013
$5,500
Let me just start by saying I wanted to get this procedure done for quite a long time now. Even since I was in high school I hated my profile view of my nose. Now that I am 22, and graduated from university this year I finally decided to go and get my nose done. I had my consultation back in November 2012 and booked my surgery post exams for May 1st. We had agreed to get my deviated septum fixed also the plan was to have my dorsal hump removed and my surgeon also said he would give me more of a feminine and natural profile look since my nose was a little too big for my face.
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Because of this site and your personal stories...
jd49106May 8, 2013
Because of this site and your personal stories that got me through this process, I decided to share my experience. As I mentioned earlier, I got my septorhinoplasty procedure May 1st, I decided to get it because I had a deviated septum and I wanted to change my side profile. The surgery went really well, honestly once you get the anaesthesia you fall asleep within seconds and you wake up already in the recovery room. The nurses in my hospital were beyond fantastic honestly I can't thank them enough, they put me into ease and were so helpful.I can't believe 7 days has gone by since my surgery...these days flew by so quickly! I can say that I finally feel like myself again (look wise is questionable haha) I actually felt great today! stopped taking my tylenol today and accomplished a lot around the house. I finally started tackling the pile of boxes and bags that need to be unpacked, since I haven't unpacked since I got back home from university cause I had my surgery the next day...so now I finally have clothes in my closet (YAY!) lot more do to do tomorrow before everything gets done though urghh
despite the great and productive day I had to day, this past week has been extremely difficult for me emotionally and physically. I had awful headaches all week, and felt so much pressure that I honestly was in bed for 4 days pretty much all day. I honestly thought reading from some other peoples blogs and diaries on the internet that they were out and about after day 2 or 3 well unfortunately this was not the case for me. I felt so tired and just had these awful migraines, so just heads up be prepared that everyone heels differently and that you might be in bed longer than you expected, and thats okay...just take a minimum of 1 week off of work. You start feeling a lot better after a week.
Swelling wise, I had lots of it! i seriously looked like a huge blown up balloon by day 2. Couldn't even recognize myself in the mirror! At first the area near my eyes was really swollen, then it moved to my cheeks at day 3, and by day 5 the swelling moved to the bottom of my face (near the jaw area). My top lip also was swollen so i couldn't smile and the top palate in my mouth was a little sore and swollen (its a weird feeling). 7 days later and I can officially say I don't look like an alien anymore YAY! For those who are frightened because their tip looks really high when they have the cast on, don't worry I looked like miss piggy at first and it was because it was taped very high and was very swollen, which I posted a pic of. So don't worry once your cast comes off it will fall back into place. To minimize the swelling I recommend ICE, ICE and some more ICE!!! Ice at least for the first 72 hours it helps so much. I personally bought 3 bags of pees and put them into 10 small ziplock bags, and rotated them from the freezer. It works wonders and pees are very mouldable and can easily take shape of your face. I also bought a eye mask ice-pack, it works great too especially after you get your cast off your can put it on and ice your nose for a bit. I find that icing your nose once you get your cast off helps with the swelling, I started doing it twice a day. Im also instructed to tape my nose at night to help with the swelling. And at first sleeping on elevated on 2 or 3 pillows was a hugeee pain in the derriere, but by now I got used to it. Its not too bad after day 3 and it does really help with the edema. I still have a tremendous amount of swelling on my nose kinda resemble avatar right now since I especially have a lot of swelling in the top part of my nose, and also have swelling in the bridge and my tip (even though I didn't have any tip work done) aka my whole nose is still swollen haha. So recovery is a very long process, but day by day you see improvements and I can't wait how its going to look like in a few weeks :)
Now on to the bruising. I had a lot of bruising, had black bruises under both my eyes. I swear it looked like someone knocked me out, there almost gone though!! give it 2 more days and I think my face will be black eye free. I actually used arnica gel to help with the bruising and swelling and it helped so much! So I defiantly recommend this product to anyone who has bruising.
I got my cast and silastic stents removed yesterday (well since its 1am I guess 2 days ago may 7th). Since I had septoplasty preformed as well, It felt sooo much better once I got my silastic stents removed OMG who knew they were so friggen big! it hurt a bit to get them out but it was really quick. Removal of the cast was painless, kinda like removing a bandaid. I still have a problem with breathing through my nose but its getting better day by day, last night my nose was actually not stuffy for the first time. I still breathe through my mouth even day, which honestly by now on im so used to it that I think i might of forgotten how it feels to breathe out of the nose. My surgeon gave me the green light to blow my nose gently after my cast removal, and I do usually before night time but Im nervous I'm going to damage something since its only been a week so i try not to. Hopefully I start start breathing out of my nose by the end of this week.
Thought I would share my survival necessities:
1. box of Kleenex
2. tylenol and prescriptions meds (pick them up before hand or on your way from the hospital, thats what i did)
3. 2 packs of Q-tip packs (these will become you best friends...ahhh best invention ever)
4. Vaseline (lips get veryyy dry)
5. hydrogen peroxide (mix it with warm water and use Q-tips to clean out nostrils)
6. polysporin (use q-tips and put it around nostrils once i got my cast off)
7. 3 packs frozen pees and eye mask ice-pack
8. arnica gel
9. popsicles (helped with the swollen lip situation)
10. lots of books, magazines and movies (trust me after 4 days you get very bored)
Il keep you guys posted on my progress :)
despite the great and productive day I had to day, this past week has been extremely difficult for me emotionally and physically. I had awful headaches all week, and felt so much pressure that I honestly was in bed for 4 days pretty much all day. I honestly thought reading from some other peoples blogs and diaries on the internet that they were out and about after day 2 or 3 well unfortunately this was not the case for me. I felt so tired and just had these awful migraines, so just heads up be prepared that everyone heels differently and that you might be in bed longer than you expected, and thats okay...just take a minimum of 1 week off of work. You start feeling a lot better after a week.
Swelling wise, I had lots of it! i seriously looked like a huge blown up balloon by day 2. Couldn't even recognize myself in the mirror! At first the area near my eyes was really swollen, then it moved to my cheeks at day 3, and by day 5 the swelling moved to the bottom of my face (near the jaw area). My top lip also was swollen so i couldn't smile and the top palate in my mouth was a little sore and swollen (its a weird feeling). 7 days later and I can officially say I don't look like an alien anymore YAY! For those who are frightened because their tip looks really high when they have the cast on, don't worry I looked like miss piggy at first and it was because it was taped very high and was very swollen, which I posted a pic of. So don't worry once your cast comes off it will fall back into place. To minimize the swelling I recommend ICE, ICE and some more ICE!!! Ice at least for the first 72 hours it helps so much. I personally bought 3 bags of pees and put them into 10 small ziplock bags, and rotated them from the freezer. It works wonders and pees are very mouldable and can easily take shape of your face. I also bought a eye mask ice-pack, it works great too especially after you get your cast off your can put it on and ice your nose for a bit. I find that icing your nose once you get your cast off helps with the swelling, I started doing it twice a day. Im also instructed to tape my nose at night to help with the swelling. And at first sleeping on elevated on 2 or 3 pillows was a hugeee pain in the derriere, but by now I got used to it. Its not too bad after day 3 and it does really help with the edema. I still have a tremendous amount of swelling on my nose kinda resemble avatar right now since I especially have a lot of swelling in the top part of my nose, and also have swelling in the bridge and my tip (even though I didn't have any tip work done) aka my whole nose is still swollen haha. So recovery is a very long process, but day by day you see improvements and I can't wait how its going to look like in a few weeks :)
Now on to the bruising. I had a lot of bruising, had black bruises under both my eyes. I swear it looked like someone knocked me out, there almost gone though!! give it 2 more days and I think my face will be black eye free. I actually used arnica gel to help with the bruising and swelling and it helped so much! So I defiantly recommend this product to anyone who has bruising.
I got my cast and silastic stents removed yesterday (well since its 1am I guess 2 days ago may 7th). Since I had septoplasty preformed as well, It felt sooo much better once I got my silastic stents removed OMG who knew they were so friggen big! it hurt a bit to get them out but it was really quick. Removal of the cast was painless, kinda like removing a bandaid. I still have a problem with breathing through my nose but its getting better day by day, last night my nose was actually not stuffy for the first time. I still breathe through my mouth even day, which honestly by now on im so used to it that I think i might of forgotten how it feels to breathe out of the nose. My surgeon gave me the green light to blow my nose gently after my cast removal, and I do usually before night time but Im nervous I'm going to damage something since its only been a week so i try not to. Hopefully I start start breathing out of my nose by the end of this week.
Thought I would share my survival necessities:
1. box of Kleenex
2. tylenol and prescriptions meds (pick them up before hand or on your way from the hospital, thats what i did)
3. 2 packs of Q-tip packs (these will become you best friends...ahhh best invention ever)
4. Vaseline (lips get veryyy dry)
5. hydrogen peroxide (mix it with warm water and use Q-tips to clean out nostrils)
6. polysporin (use q-tips and put it around nostrils once i got my cast off)
7. 3 packs frozen pees and eye mask ice-pack
8. arnica gel
9. popsicles (helped with the swollen lip situation)
10. lots of books, magazines and movies (trust me after 4 days you get very bored)
Il keep you guys posted on my progress :)
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UPDATED FROM jd49106
7 days post
Sorry I know I look horrible in all my recovery...
jd49106May 8, 2013
sorry I know I look horrible in all my recovery pics....mainly cause i hibernated in bed for 5 whole days...if i knew i would be posting them to my review i probably would of made my self look semi human haha
but I hope this can show you that heeling does take awhile but as you can see it improves day by day :)
but I hope this can show you that heeling does take awhile but as you can see it improves day by day :)
Thanks for your post! How are you feeling now? Looks like you're about a week post op and probably through the worst of it. When you are up to it, please give us an update.