In conclusion, it is not a pretty nose to anyone's eyes, but I am living with a nose that has no abnormalities and fits my face.
The moment I regret most in my life was my first nose surgery. I did not know about cosmetic surgery communities or apps, and I had my first surgery about 9 years ago. The place was really good at fillers and fat grafting, and because I was satisfied after getting filler, I went ahead with nose surgery. At that time, my outside activities increased in various ways, and I was being compared in terms of appearance, so I felt I definitely had to do it.
The hospital has now changed its name and moved, but if you want the current hospital name and information about the representative director,
I can give it to you.
I want to attach photos, but for now I will explain it in writing.
After the first surgery, the columella looked too wide and spread out, and my nasal bridge was too wide, and my nose had been short and small, but my nose became big like an Arab person's, so only my nose stood out. So I went back to the same hospital, and the bulbous nose was not improved at all. It was also numerically large, so I had revision surgery. For the first surgery, they used donated cartilage.. I soon realized that every single thing... was the shortest path to the worst outcome.
The doctor acknowledged it too, and after carving the implant that had been placed high on the nasal bridge, for shape improvement, revision surgery was done using ear cartilage, donated cartilage, and an implant. From then on, my life really changed. After the revision, my nose became even stranger than before. If the first surgery made my nose look large and the bridge high, giving a foreigner-like impression, the second surgery made it extremely obvious that I had nose surgery, with a bulky nose, and decisively, contracture began. As time passed, my nose became shorter, and the implant felt uncomfortable. At that time, I did not have asthma, but the medication they gave me saying it was contracture medication was asthma medication. But after the surgery, I developed asthma... Is this related.... It really lowered my quality of life a lot, and I did not have asthma. Really..
For a year, I was just busy working and did not care about my appearance. 6 months from the first surgery - 1 year after the revision surgery
When I was tired or not feeling well, my nose hurt. It would swell or become full of inflammation, hurting even with a touch, and if I squeezed straight along the nasal bridge like they did at the hospital, the inflammation inside my nose would burst and be squeezed out, so it was a continuous mess of a condition. If I was tired, it would grow, and if I rested a bit, it would calm down. It was Chuseok, so I was coming back up after going to the provinces, and I was unusually tired, and then my nose started swelling. By the time I arrived in Seoul, my nose was really the size of a fist [I do not even want to look at the photos from then again, but it was almost monster-level and swollen like the fan lady, to the point that the shape was unrecognizable. I could not open my eyes or breathe] and I even went to the emergency room. They said it needed to be opened, and told me to contact the plastic surgery clinic. First I got medication and injections to calm the inflammation, and after sending photos to the hospital, they decided to open it urgently. At that time, they decided to scrape out the implant, inflammation, and cartilage all together, and they said pus poured out from my nose, nearly two full containers of the kind used to hold surgical instruments. I barely remember anything.. After that, I received a refund from that hospital.. I signed some paper saying things like I would not hold them legally responsible or post about it online..
And for almost 3 years, I was too scared to touch it. It still went to my nose whenever I was not feeling well, and everyone who saw me said the columella was completely ruined. It increasingly became an upturned nose, and my nose shortened to less than half the length of a thumb. The surgery cost went over 10 million won, and there was no place willing to work on my nose. Even when I went to big, skilled hospitals, they told me to try this place or that place. I even went to a university hospital... Then
after 3 years passed, hospitals specializing in revision surgery and such appeared, and as techniques advanced, the number of hospital directors with various cases who could work on a nose like mine increased, so if they said they could operate on my nose, I wanted to try. For about a month, I went to around 15 places... And I decided on the hospital after considering the price and the doctor.
I will continue writing the rest in part 2 ~
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