Two Years Later

Hey guys, long time no chat. It's my 2 year anniversary of Rhinoplasty!  and I'm still alive!  Life is good; and i even started working with a new team...!!!  I hope all are well and happy. I thought I'd share my nearly 2 year post op's with you (I actually haven't updated since 1 year!) 

Overall, i'm pleased with my results. I got what I asked for, and in the end, i'd only change a few things (perhaps ask for a few different things). I think my surgeon  did an excellent job of doing what I asked 8) 

1 Year Anniversary!!!!

Hi all! Today 27^th February 2014 marked my 1 year post Rhinoplasty. I think my nose is pretty well healed by this i year mark. I don’t feel quite so protective about it anymore like I used to which means it feels almost like a normal nose.  All swelling except the tip is swollen still a bit. Somedays it feels more swollen than others, but it's barely noticeable. To me I think it should be smaller, but when I try to picture it... Any smaller and it wouldn't look right on me. Either way. I have quite a bit of sensitivity there but At this point, I don’t know know if, and don’t think, it will ever go away. The weather has been ridiculously hot and I can feel that my nose gets swollen from it. I remember last winter how amazing my nose was looking from the cold weather, so I am looking VERY forward to cold weather and hope it this heat wave goes away soon. The inside of my nose is usually dry. What bothers me is the asymmetry-if I'm gonna have a bump. Last week i had an appointment with Dr. KG Mathew, ENT, at KIMS hospital and he inquired about this swollen tip. Till then i was thinking that no one gonna notice it!!! Why this tip is is so swollen??? I googled, it  says its because of my thick skin, and some doctors advising steroid injections to reduce it. Hmmm lemme discuss that with my surgeon.... at this point i don’t think its necessary cuz i love the tip, i love my nose my nose... i don’t think it could be prettier than now it’s looking now. i love all the procedures which i came through!! I miss those old 10 days which i have spent at specialist’s hospital, miss my doctors and staffs!!!!

Now the present scenario, i have two stories to share, First off, I caught the worst cold ever, which turned into a sinus infection. I felt like the first week after surgery, lots of pressure and couldn't breathe at all through my nose. How frustrating! I ended up getting anti-biotics . I now finally feel better. Second, my ENT doctor, Dr. KG Mathew found i have a tiny bit sense oriental hearing loss on my both ears, he advised me to do check-up again after 6 months to find out its rate of loss. 

I will say this for those of you considering rhinoplasty, or who have just undergone surgery, this is one of the best things i've done and i don't regret it one bit!! i'm SUPER happy with the results and feel much more confident and happy with things overall. Again, I highly recommend Dr. Jayakumar. I'm proof that the service is quality (according to my orthognathic surgeon)high-end, and well worth every coin. 

Demiversary--- Six Months After Rhinoplasty

It's been six months since I had my nose job and I'm so happy with the decision - it feels like I now have the right nose for my face. No-one noticed the difference either, which isn’t what I hoped for. But I’m happy very much happy with the results

My nose has got neater and more refined over the last six months, although there wasn't too much swelling to begin with.  The surgery was expensive, but for me it was worth every penny. I feel happier and much more confident.

My nose is still making progress. It still does not feel like a regular healed nose, yet. Yesterday, my nose got hit while rearranging my room. I was not pleased with the way it felt or that it hit my nose. I figure anyones nose would hurt it got smacked, though. I still get crusty inside more than before the surgery. I am hoping it will eventually go away. If not, it’s a small price to pay for what it looks like now. That’s basically it with this update. And the today I got severe cold and mild fever. This cold consumes me a lot but I love how my nose looks.

Six months update!

My Follow -up Appointment

My follow up appointment was pretty uneventful, which is good!  Dr. Jayakumar felt the bone in my nose, asked if the congestion went away (it did, thank God!), and told me everything looked good.  He asked if I liked the way it looks (I do!), Still amazingly happy with the result. Dr. Jayakumar said that the nose will reduce even further in size over the next six months. He took my picture again, and has asked me to call for one more appointment at the 1-year mark.  Before I left though, we went through some of the pictures on his laptop... His cases, both reconstructive and cosmetic, pictures before and after. It was slightly horrifying, yet interesting.  And my pictures, I can't remember the exact measurement, but I remember Dr. Jayakumar saying, "You had a pretty big bulbous nose" as he scrolled to the next picture. Should I call and ask them to email it to me?  i think yeah, i need them not because they are my pre and post operation pictures but just because they have many stories buried inside them which i endured this whole life....

Post TWO months after Rhnioplasty

I haven’t really updated my blog much because the healing has basically slowed down until today! I am so swollen still. From the profile, it looks fine, although I do think it still supposed to drop a bit within the next month. Also, the space between my eyes is still really wide and sensitive to the touch, especially towards the eyes. I guess not so much in the middle. My tip is quite stiff. Making certain facial expressions hurts, too! I hate how swollen my nose still is and with the weather getting warmer, it’s not really helping. My nose is still heavy sometimes and sometimes not, heavily congested sometimes and sometimes not. Sometimes running so heavily sometimes not, I think it’s just because this warmest weather. When I go out I still keep sneezing a lot and I can’t completely avoid being under the sun so I feel like nature is working against me. The inside of my nose burned pretty badly because of clotted mucous. This also cause for me to attempt cleaning out my nose by. I read online to wait at least 10 weeks, but uhh, I’m just not that patient lol. I was gentle, though so I doubt I caused any damage. I’ve had soooo much dried mucous in there! I couldn't take it anymore.  When I tried to take that out one thread kinda skin also came out with that and which hurts pretty badly. Thread skin started irritating me quite badly so I called my surgeon, Dr. Oommen for help. I’m also approaching my presentation day and its last few days of work. So I don’t think that my stress is helping much!  Dr. Oommen helped me to remove that and he told it’s just a stitch of the heart shape thing which inserted in the roof of my nose to retain the shape of nose. My nostrils are pretty different now that I look at them. I guess that’s how God made me! But I also think that the right side of my nose is just more swollen that the left.

So we are at the end of April, which means it’s marking my second month anniversary since surgery. My  follow up appointment is fixed on the coming Tuesday. I really wish to consult my surgeon since that stitch started hurting me. But after Dr. Oommen took that off, I relieved a bit, but its remaining part turned sharp and started irritating and hitting me sooo badly. I ‘ve decided to kick that out when I meet Dr. Jayakumar at follow up appointment but honestly, very honesty it…. DISAPPEARED one day morning. How I DON’T know. It feels good without that but still I miss that, and getting curious how it went away with my intervention.

Things aren’t exactly “perfect” yet, but I’m so much happier with my new nose than my God given one. I feel so much prettier and more confident and I feel like my new nose  has made all of my other facial features look so much better, too. I don’t care if someone judges me based on my decision to alter my face because it is my right to choose what I want to look like and I have my families full support to have future revisions, so other people’s opinions don’t really matter. I know who I am and I know I made the right decision. But what does bother me is when others say that  you have wasted this much money for a complicated surgery and followed up a brutal recovery now all went in vain. You don’t look changed. You are look exactly like before. How do you know why I choose to do that? Because I’m so confident about my doctors and my surgery. That sounds more like arrogance to me. It’s a preference and if you feel secure and confident in your decision and you will like what you see in the mirror more, and then do it. Don’t let others negativity and jealousy make you change your mind

1 Month Post Rhinoplasty

It's been one month as of today since I had the surgery and exactly four weeks post-surgery.  I haven't updated lately because I haven't really had anything new to say and finally the black mark has moved off from under my eyes. I think I look much different from the front. My nose button is still sensitive to touch and numb in places. My nose overall is feeling a lot more "normal", but yet not feels like it's my nose again. The tip is still numb and feels a little strange, but the rest feels really good! Swelling isn’t changing much but I expected it to be a slow process. Congestion is still heavy sometimes and drainage is often soo much heavy. Nose is still numb so I’m not conscious of drainage reaching my lips but the plus side I able to breathe through nose. I've been so lucky in avoiding pain and discomfort. I can't believe I had surgery only 4 weeks ago!

The craziest thing is, my nose job isn't very noticeable to people.  I know that's hard to believe, because the people reading this blog are looking at the before and after pictures side-by-side, but not one person has asked me anything about it.  No one at work has said anything to me, the work girls, who I met straight after having the splint removed, didn't notice. They couldn't believe it when I told them and I had to show them before and after pictures before they actually noticed :) and I was around my whole extended family and I had to tell the ones who didn't already know.  They were all supportive of my decision said it looked great, but the general consensus was they could see the difference now that I mentioned it, but wouldn't have noticed on their own.  Even my mom says she doesn't notice it when she looks at me.  This is not exactly what I was going for, but I am very pleased with this new nose! Well, I still absolutely love the nose and I'm so excited when I catch a glimpse of it! 

Post Rhinoplasty - Day 17

The nose is feeling not so good but yesterday it was little bit more pleasant. The bridge where they removed the bump is the tenderest part, still tender to the touch. When I smile nose is hurting and feels kind of tight. I can smile fine though, just not my normal smile. I'm thinking that will be back to normal after 2 months. Still taking steam and nasal spray but nose is little bit congested though I can breathe through nose, but through one nostril at a time. A new problem, I doubt, the mucous oozing out of my nose has some odor in it. I asked my mom to stand near me and feel any odor coming or what but she denied, No odor. but I feel myself smelling. I ring my orthognathic surgeon Dr. Jeomy to know about this more but he didn’t answer to my call. He might be busy.

The swelling on my face is pretty much gone and nose swelling, which takes 1 year to go down all the way. Bruising is there as a small patch under both eyes. Eye sore seems to be back today so I took a nap after lunch putting eye drops on both eyes but that didn’t help much. So I think it would be better if consult a specialist.

Today’s symptoms:-

• Pain = none
• Congestion = little bit worse than day 14, but can breath through nose!
• Swelling = improved.
• Bruising = still there as small patches under both eye!