Scott James2 said:Hey everyone. I'm from Indianapolis and I recently went in for a nose exam because I can't breathe through my nose and my throat is constantly inflamed. I've been scheduled for surgery on May 7th. The report says "septoplasty and potentially turbinoplasty, septal deviation, and hypertrophied right inferior turbinate." I just want to know if this septoplasty includes fixing the shape of my nose, because it used to be straight until I got hit by a tennis ball, and now it has this bump on it.😁
Look, all I can give you is my own experience. I dealt with the exact same thing—crooked nose, deviation, the whole nine yards. I had my surgery at the hospital, and honestly, I had zero clue what they were actually going to do to me. Nobody bothered to sit down and have a real conversation with me. Right before the surgery, the doctor popped in to see me, and our entire interaction went like this: him asking, "Do you want us to do some cosmetic work on the nose too?" and me saying, "No, just fix it so I can breathe normally, but I want it to still look like my nose." He just goes, "Alright," and walks out. An hour later, the nurse came by with some sedative, it knocked me sideways, and a few minutes later I was being wheeled into the OR. I remember feeling that chill in my arm, counting backward from ten—"ten, niiiine"—and then blackness. I woke up with those nasty packing tampons stuffed up my nose, sitting in a hospital room... and that was my life for the next five days. (Not much pain, though.) On the fifth day, some other doctor pulled the tampons out and finally gave me the green light to head home... at last!🙂 But once I got home and looked in the mirror, my nose was still crooked.😕 I was totally lost. I had a follow-up appointment about two weeks later, so I asked him point-blank why my nose was still crooked, and he just gave me this super blunt answer that I hadn't opted for the aesthetic part. I seriously thought that correcting the deviation (which is basically just the curvature) would automatically straighten the nose, but apparently, that's not how it works. Long story short... I still can't breathe great, and my nose looks even more crooked by the day... so I honestly have no idea what they actually did to me in there.🤷
Seriously, talk to your doctor about every single little detail before you go under! As for me, I know one thing for sure... until I know every final detail regarding the procedure, nobody is putting me to sleep.🧐
