It's been 8 days since I had alar reduction at the hospital where I had my consultation. I had it done with an internal incision, and it really doesn't show and looks natural.
On the first day, it looked weird, like Voldemort, but now, aside from my philtrum being a bit raised, I like the nose width itself.
For reference, my nostrils were also extremely uneven, but now a lot of the swelling has gone down, so they're in the process of balancing out.
If you have a nasal bridge but your alae are wide and spread out, I think you can see quite a good effect from doing this.
Anyway, to get to the main point, during the consultation they said there are even people who have surgery in the morning and go to work in the afternoon, so I thought it was simple, but I guess it wasn't for me.
Most of the swelling has gone down, but I don't know if the suture site inside my left nostril got inflamed or if I caught a cold, but the inside of my nostril feels hot, stinging, and throbbing.
I feel like I can't make any facial expression except a blank face. If I smile, it's not just a pulling sensation, it hurts and throbs, so I couldn't smile. When I looked at reviews on another app, everyone wrote as if after a week it was all healed, painless, and caused no inconvenience, so I didn't expect this at all.
(Before surgery, they said they'd give a 100,000 won discount if I wrote a review, which they took as a deposit, and when I checked, I had to send a total of 100 photos over a month, and even then, if the hospital didn't like them or I sent too few, I might get less of the refund, so I was a bit taken aback and said I wouldn't take the discount. So I also wonder if that's why all the reviews were so good.)
I don't know why the entrance of my nostril became like this, but it's raw and irritated. Maybe it's because I had a lot of runny nose while eating and stuff.
Only my left nostril is especially like this, and if you happen to have a nosebleed that runs down and then hardens, even if it comes out a bit past the nostril and looks bad, I hope you just leave it alone.
I was applying ointment and only the scab on the left side fell off, and seeing how bad the left side is now, I think that scab played a big role.
When I called the hospital, they said it can be like this for about a month, but it was an experience I hadn't seen when searching for surgery reviews, so I'll leave an honest review,, because you could suffer like this too. I think people with expressive faces should go into it thinking they'll stay home for about a month.
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