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Nasal asymmetry and crookedness after hump nose and septal surgery

I looked into surgery because I wanted to improve nasal obstruction, rhinitis symptoms, and correct my hump nose. During the COVID period, I lived outside Seoul, so I thought it would be difficult to go around Seoul for consultations, have surgery, and then go back again, so I went to an ENT clinic in the area where I live that had been recommended as good (a place that also provides plastic surgery care). The doctor was very confident, saying that when he goes to academic conferences in Seoul, people take him seriously, and that he had even received scouting offers from Gangnam. Since I wasn’t going to put in an implant and was only slightly shaving down the hump, I thought it would be okay, so I had blood tests, CT, all the examinations, and booked the surgery. But then suddenly the doctor said, “Sensitive people sometimes look closely at their nose and come in saying, ‘This part seems a bit strange, it’s asymmetric,’ and that stresses me out.” Why would he suddenly say that now, after the surgery had already been booked? Was he laying the groundwork? I wondered if he meant some degree of asymmetry could happen, and it felt a bit strange, but he said those people are rare and that of course he would do his best, so I didn’t worry much and just had the surgery. During the surgery, it was done under local anesthesia, so I couldn’t even fall asleep, and it was hard and my throat was burning, so I struggled to ask for water a few times in the middle, but he got a bit irritated and asked why I was drinking so much water. Later, maybe he was bothered by having gotten irritated during the surgery, because when I heard him talk about it then, he said something like my bleeding didn’t stop as well as other people’s and there was a lot of bleeding. Even if it was a difficult situation like that, it still felt so unpleasant that I remember it to this day. And about 10 days after surgery, when the splint was removed, the side hump line looked okay, but when I looked in the mirror I felt some asymmetry, so I looked up from under my nose and it had become asymmetric like that. When I asked about it, he said everyone originally has asymmetry, that I had some asymmetry from the beginning too. He said if it really bothers me, he could do revision surgery after 6 months, but then the upper nasal bridge area could become crooked. It could be that it had originally been a bit crooked with asymmetry, and after shaving the upper hump, filling with septal cartilage, and pinching the nasal tip, it became more noticeable, but isn’t plastic surgery supposed to correct things like that? The revision surgery cost was stated as 1 million won for now, and I’m debating whether to confidently ask for free aftercare correction or go get consultations at other hospitals. The hump, deviated septum, and nasal obstruction are gone, and sometimes it looks okay if I just glance in the mirror rather than looking closely, so I also think maybe I should just live with it. But the sharpness of the left and right sides of my nose feels different, and from below it stands out clearly like that, so instead of the complex about my hump nose, I feel like I’ve ended up with this complex.

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