After< d+318>After< d+318>Before<before surgery>After<right after surgery>After<one week later.. I should’ve made it higher I miss that time haha> It’s been 318 days, so I came to leave a review!
I was born with rhinitis, so I had lived since childhood unable to breathe properly.
For years, I grew up getting steroid prescriptions from ENT clinics and taking medication.
Then when I was in elementary school, I underwent surgery to cauterize the inferior turbinates with a laser + septal cartilage removal.
The funny thing is, I had never agreed to septal cartilage removal back then, but the doctor just put some long metal thing? into my nose and struck it with something like a hammer. Only later did I find out that was septal cartilage removal.
I originally didn’t have a hump nose, but after that procedure, I gradually developed one. On top of that, the humped nasal dorsum is only on one side.
Anyway, even after that, my rhinitis didn’t get better, so I had inferior turbinectomy a few more times.
But the rhinitis kept recurring every few years.
I lived like that, and after pregnancy my rhinitis recurred again.
I was breathing through my mouth again and just couldn’t take it anymore. Looking in the mirror made me feel so defeated. That’s when I started looking into nose surgery.
I had lived thinking, it’s not even that low of a nose, so whatever, I’ll just live with it. But I really couldn’t anymore. At some point I became filled with self-hatred from deep inside.
The shape mattered too, but more than anything, I just wanted to breathe through both nostrils. Why couldn’t my nose do its job? A nose is made for breathing.
With the mindset that if I was going to have surgery, I should do it properly, I made appointments at several places in Gangnam.
I live outside Seoul, so I calculated the time carefully and went around all day without eating, choosing ten hospitals for consultations.
At every place, I had CT scans and consultations.
Plastic surgery specialists mostly recommended putting in an implant.
But for me, being able to breathe was the bigger priority.
One hospital director said the hump was just something I was born with, so I ruled that hospital out. Another hospital said that if I touched the mucous membrane again I could get empty nose syndrome, so I should only do it by inserting an implant..
Anyway, because I had never had cosmetic nose surgery before, I didn’t know I had no septal cartilage. But when ENT doctors saw the CT, they told me that my septal cartilage had been removed in the past, and as I grew, my nasal tip collapsed.
They said you shouldn’t touch the nose during the growth period, and that kind of procedure isn’t done in childhood..
So I chose two hospitals that could also do functional rhinoplasty, and went for one more consultation at each.
And I trusted this hospital more, so I went with it.
Rather than something dramatic, I just wanted to find the nose shape I had lost. And be able to breathe too.
That’s how I had surgery last August.
I booked a hotel near Gangnam for one day and slept there after surgery.
With hemostatic cotton packed in my nose, I went through hell for 3 days.
My lips and throat were dry, and I felt like I was going to die.
A small tip from me: I soaked gauze with saline and kept placing it on my mouth while breathing.
But when they opened my nose for surgery, they discovered something shocking.
The director told me that during a previous inferior turbinectomy, the nasal mucous membrane had been accidentally torn, and that doctor had just left the mucous membrane as it was. That’s why my rhinitis had gotten worse. The director said he sutured that properly too.
Three days later, going all the way to Seoul just to remove the cotton was too hard, so I asked a neighborhood ENT clinic to remove it. (Submitted a medical opinion/referral letter?)
And I regretted it a bit.
Because.. there was something like an earplug?? that blocked the ear after cartilage was taken so the ear shape wouldn’t deform, and that should have been removed too, but the neighborhood ENT didn’t remove it. Also, while they were removing the cotton, I suddenly felt like I was going to throw up and then fainted I don’t know why..
A week later, I went to remove the splint, and they had such a hard time removing that thing from my ear because it had hardened from oozing Even if it seems simple, make sure to get it done at the hospital where you had surgery The neighborhood clinic didn’t even want to give me antibiotics
After surgery, my nose settled completely..
I came to like my nose
If I had known it would be this simple, I even thought I should have just had nose surgery before getting married.
What’s upsetting is unless I tell people, no one knows I had cosmetic surgery..... No one noticed
I only heard, “Did you lose weight?” a few times, and never once heard, “Did you get your nose done?”...
Still, I’m satisfied because the hump is gone, the nasal tip is higher, and breathing is a little easier!
After surgery there were a few crises where my kids kicked my nose with their feet, but thankfully, maybe because the surgery was done well, the cartilage didn’t detach or anything.
Anyway, sometimes I feel a little regretful thinking I should have made it higher when I did it, but now I’m very satisfied And after the swelling went down, a slight trace of the hump remained, but I think this is enough I had told the director to shave it as naturally as possible and not shave too much. I’d also heard that to erase even the trace of a hump completely, an implant such as silicone would have to be placed around the hump area.
I suddenly got tempted to get double eyelid surgery, so I came back to this community after a long time. I thought there might be everyone here looking up nose surgery like I used to, so I’m writing this review again.
Thank you to everyone who gave me encouragement and advice all this time! I hope everyone succeeds!!!! Let’s all be happy and become prettier!