2-Week Review After Facial Contouring Surgery at No Jonghun Plastic Surgery

I'll leave a 14-day post-op review. Once you get through the first week, things get much more comfortable, and as you move into week 2, the swelling drops quickly. I still have a little swelling at the temples, and there is still a good amount in the cheeks, especially the kind that makes it feel like I bit into a candy. For the first week I had to take antibiotics, so from day 3 after surgery I only drank Yeowoo Tea, the swelling tea. After finishing the antibiotics, I bought Danggwisusan (Bruna) from the pharmacy and took it, but after about 5 days it gave me diarrhea.. (the package did say it may cause diarrhea if you have lactose intolerance). So I just kept drinking Yeowoo Tea, and the hospital also said walking is the best thing for reducing swelling, so I walked almost every day for about 90 minutes to 2 hours. Bruising showed up briefly around the eyes and mouth as yellow discoloration on days 3 to 5, then disappeared and did not come back. After one week, you also remove the thick gauze called tap gauze that goes inside the compression bandage, and you only need to wear the compression bandage for 12 hours a day, which makes daily life much easier! I walked around wearing a mask, the compression bandage, and a hood pulled low (no one recognized me! During week 1 the bandage was thick, and even with a mask my face, especially from the eyes up, was so swollen that when people made eye contact they kept staring). A lot of people say the tightening strap hurts, but for me during week 1 it was actually more comfortable to keep it on. (I was so swollen that without it my face felt heavy..) Even early in week 2, the thinner bandage was comfortable, but around day 12, wearing the bandage made circulation feel blocked and my ears and lips hurt. When I went to the hospital on day 14, the doctor said I had been wearing the bandage properly, but from now on it is not good just to wear it for a long time unconditionally, so I should watch my condition carefully. Once I took the bandage off, I could see the swelling gradually moving downward. I hope it goes down soon~! For the sideburn area, after the stitches are removed in week 1, they told me to keep on the white adhesive tape for about 2 months (they said it helps with scar care), but it feels like my sideburns might grow out before 2 months are up? And the left side already has no visible scar at all! On the right side I can't see it in the mirror, but it does show a little in photos. I need to keep sticking the tape on diligently,, For about 3 days right after surgery, I could only manage very finely strained white rice porridge (it felt like I was eating just to be able to take the antibiotics). Until the stitches came out on day 14, I mainly ate the following: - Very finely strained white rice porridge, almost like paste for plastering walls (+ with cheddar cheese, ketchup, and goghandeusuyo, a Korean name for a pickled seaweed product sold in Japan, etc.) - Mashed banana with almost no chunks - Only the broth from soybean sprout soup with no seasoning at all - 100% carrot juice, green plum juice - Blended apple, pear, and chamoe after removing the seeds - Mashed potato and sweet potato with almost no chunks - Plain yogurt, and Excellent (vanilla ice cream) (I was told dairy can cause diarrhea if taken with antibiotics, so I was supposed to watch carefully, but I was fine so I just ate it) I really just kept rotating through those foods over and over. A lot of people said food got stuck in the stitches and made things hard, so I avoided anything I had to chew from the start. I only ate things I could press lightly with my tongue and the roof of my mouth and swallow right away, and maybe because of that, nothing got stuck in the stitches. So gargling was not very uncomfortable. (Around day 12, I really wanted something spicy, so I stole a couple of sips of ramen broth from what my family was eating, and after eating bland food for almost 2 weeks, I felt like my stomach was tearing apart^^) Around days 11 to 12, it seemed like most of the inside of my mouth had healed, so the stitches started to feel uncomfortable. It felt like blood flow was blocked for no reason too (my lips looked a bit pale), and every time I talked the stitches pulled on my lips.. I just wanted them out soon..!! So I counted down the days until the stitches were removed. On the morning of day 14, I arrived at the hospital to have the stitches taken out. The sideburn stitches were almost painless, but I had heard the intraoral stitches could hurt, so I was tense. Luckily, they gave me a gargling anesthetic! Maybe because of the anesthetic, the act of pulling out the stitches itself did not hurt much. It was prickly, but only to the point where I could bear it while saying ouch. But! The part where they used a wooden stick to open the space between my lips and gums in order to remove the stitches hurt.... Still, once the stitches were out I would be able to eat a wider variety of foods, and keeping the stitches in was more uncomfortable, so I kept telling myself that and endured it. After removal, color returned to my lips, and wow, the feeling of the threads constantly pulling was gone so it was incredibly comfortable!! Since I hadn't chewed for two weeks, even after the stitches came out it was hard to chew right away. I wasn't sure how hard it was okay to chew, so I ended up chewing like an old grandmother, in tiny bites. For 4 months I was told not to open my mouth wide or eat anything tough or hard like tteokbokki rice cakes or meat, and not to open my mouth wide. What am I supposed to eat then?!?! Please give me some ideas I'll come back with a 1-month review,,