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Recovery From Nose Surgery
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Question: Today I saw my ENT, and he is going to have me talk to his surgeon. I have
a slightly deviated septum, but what really screws me up is the soft tissue
swelling. He's thinking surgery to cut some of it out and/or to fix the
deviation.
My thoughts are to do something akin to sommnoplasty but in my nose instead
to prevent the swelling without having to cut into bone. When the doc
originally saw me he thought that surgery would be a bad idea because the
soft tissue would just swell up more to take the same space, and I'd be back
at square one.
I do telephone sales for a living right now (in addition to playing piano
gigs), and am wondering what types of surgery there are out there regarding
this, what the recovery times are like, and if I'm going to look like Cyrano
after the operation (I don't now).
Answer: My experience was the same for turbinoplasty and septoplasty. I tried
nasal sprays first, but it damages tissue over the long run and so I
couldn't see using it for a long-term solution. Then, I tried those
nasal strips... BreatheRight, or something like that. They worked like
a charm, I could breath wonderfully with them on. No insurance coverage
for them, though. Finally, I took the plunge and did surgery, and it
worked like a charm. I can breath gangbusters through my nose now. My
personal experience was that my nose recovered quite quickly, with
minimal after-surgery swelling. I had a little bit of numbness on my
left cheek, which is a side-effect of surgery that you may want to talk
to your doc about (numbness due to nerve damage). This was not
bothersome, and went away within a week or so.
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