Pain and Thin-Skinned Nose Removal #1 Month Post-Op

I uploaded photos for everyone who’s curious about thin-skinned nose removal to refer to. A lot of it has gone down, but I still have bruising, and it gets darker when it’s cold. So far, the skin on my nasal bridge is much thinner than the nasal tip and columella, so I’m very careful even when applying cosmetics. I used a cushion puff and it stuck tightly to my skin, and it hurt so much Since it will get thinner as I age, I think there will be limits even if new tissue fills in. If you look at the left and right photos of my nasal bridge line, you’ll probably notice the difference. Before removal, from the front, the silicone was slightly shifted to the right, but after removal, I think it became prominent because the nasal bone had been compressed. Looking from the compressed right side, the left line is higher, so it looks uneven. Conversely, from the left side, the nasal bone is lower, so it looks smooth. Even from the front, if you look closely, there’s a height difference between the left and right nasal bones. After two weeks had passed since removing the internal stitches, the condition of my nose started changing slightly every day. Just after the two-week mark, the columella area started feeling tight when eating or brushing my teeth, and the columella angle also seemed to tilt and change. I don’t know if that was the beginning of the contraction phase, but so far there isn’t any major pulling or lifting. (I’m taking medication for contracture.) The different sensation only in the philtrum area, which I’d felt since after surgery, is still there. If you look at the last columella photo, there’s a scar, which is upsetting. Maybe because the nasal tip was also removed, the columella seems to droop more than before removal, or maybe it’s just plump because of swelling. More than anything else, the columella is what bothers me the most. Now that I’m one month post-op, a lot of the swelling has gone down, but the swelling around the nostril wings seems to be going down the slowest. Sometimes I have pain that feels like the nasal bridge bone is being pressed, or slight pain that moves around different parts of the nose. Still, the pressure pain in my nasal bridge that I felt before surgery is gone. It definitely seems like the silicone really was the problem. What’s funny is that I started going to hospital consultations last November, and even when I said the silicone in my nose was showing through and painful, the plastic surgery directors reacted like it was no big deal. There was even a director who said that if I’d had surgery, I should just accept that much and live with it. At the time, everyone said there was no problem, so I thought that was true and wasted time. The tightness and pressure in my nasal bridge made it hard to sleep, and it was difficult. Even if they say it’s nothing serious during consultations, if you’re considering removal and the symptoms you feel are significant, I think removal is the right choice. For now, I’m still being careful when smiling, yawning, brushing my teeth, and eating because I’m worried it might affect the columella. I’m anxious that the columella scar might get darker, and I’m nervous that once more subtle swelling goes down, it might change again. But since I had pain, the silicone was showing through, and my skin kept getting thinner, I think I did well to remove it. It would probably have been hard to live in that condition. They say celebrities or women working in nightlife know side effects can happen, so they get touch-ups once in a while before 10 years pass, but that’s unrealistic for ordinary people. For cosmetic surgery, instead of putting foreign materials in, I think just doing something like double eyelids and taking care of your skin and body looks more refined and healthy. On the day of the removal surgery, I felt so sorry to my mom. And removal is also surgery involving a scalpel, so you have to be careful. Sometimes people think, “If the shape looks weird after removal, I’ll just get revision surgery,” or expect that removal will solve all the problems, but I think it’s more comfortable mentally to lower those expectations. After reading posts on the removal board... I started thinking that it’s better for your mental health to have the surgery only when you’re in a situation where you can’t avoid removal, or to go into it thinking, “If the condition after removal isn’t extremely serious, I’ll just live with it.” Otherwise, you may repeat removal and revision surgery, and it seems like it would become really hard. I hope everyone makes a choice they won’t regret. It’s March now. Once it gets warmer, the bruising will probably fade more. Then I’ll post another review at two months post-op.