In December, I had surgery for rhinitis, deviated septum, hump nose, and alar reduction.
To start with the conclusion, I have almost no satisfaction with the rhinitis surgery. Since I had deviated septum surgery, I guess it must have improved? For the hump nose, I’m satisfied with the bone shaving, but I regret putting cartilage in the nasal tip.
My rhinitis wasn’t severe, but I did have some, and even now I don’t feel like it has improved much. Sometimes it feels like I’m breathing through both nostrils, but then it quickly gets stuffy again. Like the person below said, I don’t understand why they say the surgery went well afterward but don’t confirm it with an X-ray or CT.
My original nose wasn’t low, and I had a slight hump nose. With open rhinoplasty, they shaved down the hump and narrowed the wide nasal bones very slightly. Then they put septal cartilage into the nasal tip, kept the tip slightly round like my original tip shape, and only did a slight alar reduction, so the surgical scars are only about 2-3 mm.
I really did everything only little by little, but honestly it was a major surgery that touched everything. It hurt so much, and all my facial bones and even my teeth hurt. For about 3-4 days. I had nosebleeds for a week, and after that I kept getting a runny nose from time to time. It was harder than I expected and there was a lot to manage. I think it was probably because of the rhinitis surgery. Now the swelling has gone down a lot and I barely have a runny nose.
People around me don’t really know I had surgery unless I tell them. People who don’t know ask things like, something looks different, your impression looks better, something seems improved, did you lose weight? That’s how they ask. I guess that means it was done naturally because everything was changed little by little.
So aside from shaving down a hump nose, I don’t really want to recommend nose surgery.
Even now, my rhinitis and nasal congestion have not improved much, and I heard that in most cases it returns to the original state over time. Unless the hump is very severe and the nasal tip is low, I don’t recommend putting cartilage into the nasal tip. It becomes muuuuch harder than expected and somehow uncomfortable. Also, due to a mistake by the hospital, I got a scar outside the surgical area. I now have scars from the open rhinoplasty, scars inside the nose, and scars in several places, so it bothers me a bit. Other people probably wouldn’t care, but it’s my face, and I already got scars because of the surgery, and now I even have scars where they shouldn’t have formed, so they keep catching my eye. Also, after surgery I told the director in charge that I felt the cartilage at my nasal tip was very slightly shifted to one side, and that it slightly protruded and could be felt above one nostril. They said it was because my face is a bit asymmetrical and my skin is thin. I’m not medical staff, but I think that doesn’t really make sense. This also isn’t noticeable enough for other people to feel, but since I see it every day and it’s the face I have to live with for the rest of my life, it bothers me. I think I was even more worried because I had seen many photos of rhinoplasty side effects where cartilage shows through and contracture occurs. So I looked into removal for a while, but for now, it’s something only I’m bothered by, it’s hard to have revision surgery right away, and revision itself is difficult and could go wrong, so I decided to wait and see until the swelling goes down completely and everything settles.
There are parts that bother me personally, and because the nasal tip has become hard and there are areas that feel awkward and uncomfortable compared with before, I feel this way. But I don’t regret that shaving down the hump nose made my appearance softer, and I think it turned out fairly well. If there hadn’t been a strange scar on my nose from the hospital’s mistake, and if I hadn’t put cartilage in my nasal tip, I think I would have been more than 90% satisfied.
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