Vancouver BC - Rhinoplasty - not happy.

I have always found that my nose detracted from my looks rather than contributed to them. I have a fine nose from the side profile but from 3/4 view and often when I am laughing it looks awful. It seems to go from being a typical simple / plain nose when I am holding my face still and face on, or profile, to a large, bumpy and boney hookish nose once I turn 3/4 or become animated.

I heard about Dr Warren from a friend who had lots of friends with plenty of money (to travel and choose whomever they wished) and older than me by about 20 years, so lots who had anti-aging surgery as well. I read his reviews on Rate My MD and he is practically revered, but there was only one on Real Self, so I feel like I really want to do a review to help others decide.

I wish there were more photos of his work available. He has a 2 year waiting list and lots of respect from his peers, but still, a person wants to see photos. In any case, his reviews were so consistently terrific and his staff (who've been there for 10 and 20 years respectively) worship his work, so there are a lot of good evidence that he is among the best there are, but I would still have liked to have seen more photos. I also see an injector across the hall from Warren at another plastic surgeon's office who had nothing but good things to say about his work, so I had a lot to feel confident about, but still...we girls want to see photos!

My initial consult with him was good. He's a conservative man without much pretence. You can tell he's confident in himself and his work, but he sort of gives you the impression he has nothing to prove - he's understated, essentially. He's written text books and given so many peer to peer talks and written papers, that academically he's accomplished enough to avoid promoting himself. He knows his stuff and on Real Self I found numerous examples of other surgeons mentioning his talent to people researching for this area for facial surgeries.

I booked in to have a second consult 5 years after my initial one. I like to really think about things a long time, obviously, and didn't take this surgery lightly. He was again not promotional at all, did not talk about any other surgeries other than the rhinoplasty that I came for. He was confident he could improve my nose in the ways I wanted and said it would be a relatively routine procedure.

I booked my surgery for a few months out and started to psychologically prepare.

Here are some before photos.

See before, not too bad but not attractive.

The first day of my surgery I was really out of it and took a long time to recover from the anesthetic. The nurse seemed a little annoyed with me and I wondered if I had said anything to her that was offensive before I became self aware.

Anyway, the most pain was definitely in my throat. I was given two percocets and after that I could hardly keep my eyes open. That night I slept quite well. My mom has a bed that elevates your head or feat so I slept with my head elevated.

My eyes were black but didn't hurt. I actually didn't feel a lot of pain but just tired and drugged and irritated by the dried blood in my nose.

My nostrils look quite uneven but I think it's all swelling.

I had nausea and kept my diet to yogurt and soup.