Posts by Ethan Carter23

Betty Edwards22 said:Usually, you keep a tampon in for five days or use a "splint," but I guess you need something to actually hold that septum in place.

You’re just not thinking this through. Your nose is part of your face—your one-of-a-kind face—and the structure underneath is unique to you. Anything that tries to just copy and paste someone else's look always ends up looking terrible.

I totally agree that the copy/paste approach is a disaster. Honestly, I think people just need to have realistic expectations; let's face it, we're always going to find some flaw in everything.

rustygardener172 said:Look, you've got nasal turbinates in there... and here's the thing... if you have a deviation, say, that blocks off your right nostril, you aren't actually going to breathe great through the left one either. The body is pretty smart about this stuff... it tries to balance out the airflow on both sides, so those turbinates end up swelling up on the left side, which is why breathing feels like a struggle on both nostrils.
My surgeon actually went ahead and leveled out my turbinates at the same time he fixed the deviation during my surgery.

Rustygardener172, can you post a picture of your nose?

rustygardener172 said:It’s not a wrong conclusion... you wrote that tampons need to stay in the nose for 5 days to keep the septum straight. In my case, they were only in for 1 day and everything stayed perfectly in place.
So basically, if the doctor actually does their job right, it doesn't even matter how long those tampons sit in there. I mean, if they don't set it correctly to begin with, you could leave them in for 10 days and it wouldn't do a damn thing...
...which just goes back to what I've been saying—those tampons don't really play that huge of a role in whether the surgery is a success or not.

Hey everyone!
I also had my surgery at the hospital in St., and everything turned out great—fixed my deviated septum and took care of the hump too. It’s been 3 weeks now and I can breathe perfectly. Honestly, I don't get why the tampon duration varies so much from person to person. It’s not just different hospitals versus private clinics; even private doctors seem to have totally different ideas about how long they should stay in. Technology is moving forward, so you'd think the tampons themselves and the time they need to stay put would be standardized by now. As for me, I ended up keeping mine in for 7 days just because the weekend hit.