Surgery for broken/bulbous nose -my journey

So I received a direct mail asking for an update. I am at the 18 month mark. My breathing is still excellent. My nose looks good most days. I still have some phantom swelling every once in a while that makes my nose look a little off but most days it is straight. I have posted a before pic I found and I took a pic today to give you a comparison.

I must say though with my nose being fixed for breathing and the fat, bulbous end gone, I started to notice my tired, hollowed, eyes. As you can see, I had Dr. McNeel take care of that with some Restylane and I began a retina-a treatment (from my dermatologist) which has worked wonders for my skin. I have also documented the progress for both the tear trough filler and the retin-a in other reviews.

Overall, with a little help from my new best friend forever (Dr. McNeel) - I am feeling pretty good for a woman who has passed the 50 mark. And what is the best about it all, is that no one guesses that I had work done on my nose or fillers in my eyes. They just tell me how great I look and that is the best.

Again, if anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask or send me a private message. That is what this community is for. I will always give the straight up answer.

It will be a year since my surgery in two days but I thought I would update now while I have the chance.

While I think we all hope for mounds of further refinement once we get our casts off, although there is further improvements, they slow down after a certain period.

After a year my nose still swells and unswells. It has its good days and its puffy looking days. I don't know why that is. There are known things that make it swell like wine or heat but sometimes I don't know why it is swollen. It is mostly swollen in the morning. The swelling can sometimes make it look off center and slightly crooked.

On important days when I want to look my best and I wake up and find my nose swollen, I ice it which seems to help. Since I want to keep my reviews as real as possible, I did not ice it and left it. It is about average today and not swollen in this comparison pic.

Overall, I feel better with my nose. I don't loathe pictures of myself anymore and I don't wear as much makeup anymore. Feeling that my nose was fat and tremendous, I would wear a bunch of eye makeup to try to draw your eye from my nose. Now I don't. I don't even feel self-conscious walking around with no makeup.

You know, it feels like forever ago that I had my surgery. I removed most of my pics (sorry) but I bumped into 2 of them on other surgery sites so I just thought it best to streamline with one pic. Showing day before surgery, 10 months and cast off so you get an idea of the before and after and the bit of refining that takes place between the time the cast is off and a few months later.

I believe my nose is pretty much where she is going to be. I still have occasional swelling (from heat, alcohol) but a little ice on the nose for 3 minutes in the am takes care of that. I still have the occasional mystery nose drip but that goes away as soon as it came.

Is my nose super perfect? No. I would have liked it a bit more pinched at the end with a slight swoop for the profile. I realize that my doctor was working with a recently broken nose that had a bunch of damage to it and wasn't optimal to work on. All things said, I really like the improvement and I feel very confident with it.

Would I do a revision to tweek it? No. But if I notice over time the tip starts to widen as I age, then the answer will be yes.

Am I glad that I did it? Yes.

Would I pick the same surgeon? Yes.