Rhinoplasty, Chin Augmentation, Buccal Fat Removal, and Facial Fat Graphing. West Hollywood, CA

The Consult
I had my first consultation with Dr. Motykie on June 14th, 2013. At the time I had only gone to him for rhinoplasty and a chin augmentation only. After much consideration, I went back to have a second consultation for Buccal Fat Removal and Fat Graphing to be completed at the same time. The office building was nice and modern looking, but I soon learned that it was better to park in the street than to park in the structure, as this facility does not validate parking. The cost of the first consultation was $175 that would be put towards your surgery, if you chose to go through with it, and there was no additional charge for the second consultation. Both times I waited 2 hours passed my appointment time to see Dr. Motykie, but once I had him in a room, I realized why; he took his time with his patients. He answered all of my questions thoroughly and went over my expectations with me. He patiently told me which of my expectations he thought was "do-able" and which were unrealistic, something that I greatly appreciated. By the end of the second consult, I really felt that we were on the same page as far as beauty and execution plans.

The Surgery 12/18/14
I had my surgery Thursday 12/18/14. My original surgery time was scheduled for 1:30pm but was pushed back to 3pm due to the first surgery of the day running over. I was slightly relieved to hear this since I was very nervous to have my face operated on, but was also a bit hangry since I was not allowed to eat anything. Once we got to the office we were told that I would need to wait even longer because the first surgery was still not completed. We sat in the waiting room for 3 more hours! I was not in a good mood at that point as I was starving and very very nervous, but at the same time I was hoping that the dr. was taking his time eating lunch and resting up so that he would not be overly tired during my surgery. Finally around 6pm, the a nurse came to get me and take me back to the hospital room.

The hospital staff tried to joke with me (which I appreciated) but was I too nervous and not in the mood. Finally the anethesiologist suggested giving me some "happy juice" to calm me down. The staff also put a massaging machine on my feet to try and get me to relax. Next thing I knew, I was in the recovery room with blood dripping out of my nose (sorry if it's graphic, but this is the good/bad/and ugly!) The nurse immediately put me into a wheel chair (it was after 8pm now), and wheeled me out to my Bf's car.

The First Night
The ride home was miserable. I've had my breasts done before and I was not in as much pain when I went home from that surgery as I was from this surgery (guess I had the "good stuff" for that one). But as miserable as the ride home was, later that night was much worse. I got home, attempted to eat something, my nose continued to bleed through all of my towels until around 1am. I had numbness around my lips, chin, and nose. My teeth felt like someone punched them and I could not see out of my eyes do to swelling. Eventually I fell asleep after the percocet took effect.

Day 2
The second day I woke up feeling MUCH better. The numbness in my face had already disappeared, as did the pain in my teeth. My eyes were still swollen but I could tell that it had gone down some. I could not breath out of my nose and it was still dripping a bit of blood. I could not yet feel any pain from the buccal fat removal or the area on my leg where fat was taken out of. Actually, I could tell that my cheeks looked very sculpted and nice from the Buccal fat removal, and were not puffy at all yet, this is the first thing that really excited me about my surgery. I started taking my antibiotics and steroids expecting an uphill ride from here.

Boy Was I Wrong, Day 3
On the 3rd day I started to develop an iching sensation in my stomach. I figured this was due to healing and didn't think much of it. I noticed that my eye swelling had gone up dramatically, and my bruising increased. I started to feel pain on my inner thigh where the fat was taken out of, and my cheeks started to bloat. The best way to describe what I was feeling was "remarkably uncomfortable".

Day 4
If I thought day 3 was uncomforable, day four had reached "miserable". The iching in my body spread and continued to intensify. My eyes became even more puffy, bruised and watery. I could barely breathe or eat anything. I'm pretty sure that the night before I accidently bit down on my inscission from my chin implant and pulled some of the stitching out. But it wasn't until my gums started itching and I wanted to rip my face off from discomfort that I realized that I was having an allergic reaction to either my pain meds or my antibiotic. I called Dr. Motykie's office and a dr. was put on the phone right away. He informed me that I was most likely allergic to my antibiotic and instructed me to take allergy medication and discontinue the antibiotic. It took about an hour to get relief from the swelling and itching, but I was finally able to sleep.

Day 5
I am currently on day 5. I awoke this morning exhausted from last night's activities; however, I am relieved to see that some of the swelling has gone down and most of the itching has decipated. My nose is still quite stuffy and my eyes are bruised and puffy, but I can feel it gradually getting better now. From this point on I will update as needed (if anything changes). I have my second post op on friday 12/26 so I will definitely update this then. I cannot yet tell if I will be happy with the results as my face is still quite disfigured due to swelling, but I'm hoping that I will heal a lot faster now that I am no longer taking medication that I am allergic to. One can only hope! :]

So I thought I would post the process that I went through with Dr. Motykie to try and achieve my desired look. The first set of photos are the Photoshop renderings that he created to give me an idea of his vision. The next set of photos are the Photoshop renderings that I created so that he could better understand what I liked and did not like.

For those of you considering Rhinoplasty, here is a look at what you might look like when you come home from the operating table (sorry, pretty graphic!). Mind you that my eyes got a lot more swollen due to the allergic reaction from my antibiotic.