A review of Cocoline from the community

It's been 1 year and 6 months since the surgery, and lately my life has been really depressing. I used to like my face, and I lived without really losing out because of my looks. But every time I took a photo, my crooked nose was the only complex I had, and I decided on surgery with only the thought of correcting that one crooked nose. At the consultation, I thought I had clearly conveyed my thoughts to the doctor. "I already like my face, so please correct only the crooked nose without changing the overall image or the height of the nose. I like the slightly drooping feeling of the tip and the current natural height, so I don't want it to look like an obviously operated nose or to be changed." Because he was a specialist, I trusted that he would reflect my requests well and left everything entirely to him, but that trust was a complete misjudgment. Maybe the crooked nose I originally wanted corrected was fixed, but everything else came out completely different from what I expected. The bridge became blunt and like a slide, and the tip became sharp and high. My original nose also had a hump and the alar cartilages were large, so it had a three-dimensional shape. Aside from the crook, I liked my face because it had dimension and clean lines. I made that very clear. But the director shaved down the hump completely and removed a large part of the alar cartilage, smoothing away all the three-dimensional contours of my nose. As a result, the bridge turned into a blunt lump, and the tip was lifted sharply, making it look unnatural, like an "operated nose." The three-dimensionality and atmosphere of my original face disappeared without a trace, leaving only a smooth, short nose. Naturally, my family and people around me didn't react well, but the director himself seemed satisfied, as if he had fitted my nose into his idea of a "typical pretty nose." Not a single one of the conditions I wanted apart from correcting the crooked nose was respected. In hopes of possibly reversing it with revision surgery, I went to more than 15 plastic surgery clinics, but the only conclusion I got was that the hump, which had already been completely ground down, and the alar cartilage that had been cut away could not be restored. The problem wasn't only external. There were internal side effects too: I also had surgery for rhinitis along with the cosmetic surgery, but from after the operation onward, everything from my nostrils to my nasopharynx, larynx, and tonsils became extremely dry. Even so, when standing or sitting, mucus would run down from my nose. At first I thought it was just a temporary post-op symptom and would get better with time, but even now, 1 year and 6 months later, the symptoms still haven't improved. After looking into it and visiting hospitals, it seemed like I had a disease called empty nose syndrome. The inferior turbinate, which regulates the temperature and humidity of the air, wasn't functioning properly. For someone like me, it was even worse when lying down, and on bad days, when I woke up my throat felt like it was being torn apart, and along with the sensation that cold air was entering my head, I also got severe headaches. I was worried about the rhinitis surgery, so I deliberately chose an ENT specialist, and in my case it wasn't an excessive resection, but even so I still ended up with side effects. These days, honestly, life is just so hard. I'm ashamed to meet friends or acquaintances, and I don't even want to face new people. I wear a mask every day, wipe my nose whenever I can, and my sleep quality is at rock bottom. Now, the thing I regret most in my life is having nose surgery. If I had one wish, it would be to turn back time to just before I had rhinoplasty.