I'm a man in my 40's. I had chin surgery and cheek lift surgery (my doctor recommended it). Also, last year, I got injured 10 years ago and had a crooked nose, which was very stressful. I made a really big decision and tried to become a little more handsome, but it ended up being even uglier (I crashed). I was almost like an avatar, but even after the swelling went down, I started to live as an avatar a little bit...
I waited and waited and looked and looked for depression and stress, and then I had my nose reconstructed again (ultra-fine costal cartilage).
I often see pictures of the most unsightly looking and unattractive angles. Isn't it... they don't do it in places like this? Do you want to live like this?
What does a married man in his 40s look like? You may think, but I was a man who rarely looked in the mirror except to wash my hair, but
after the surgery, from the moment I didn't like it and felt strange, I started looking at the mirror 100 times more often.
I became very interested in my appearance, and I became a strange person. I became
depressed, irritated, and angry. I don't want to meet him... I feel like my life is completely messed up... ah... I don't think it's enough to talk to him all day... Anyway, it was really hard (I felt how I felt at that time, so I started to go astray...)
First of all. I'll talk about the nose later. I think I did a very, very, very good job of removing the silicone and having the surgery again. (I'm so happy just to escape from the avatar.)
For now, I'll just talk about the pain of the round cut.
He's not too severe and he's a suitable man. Review I've seen it so many times...I don't often see reviews saying things like "I'm going to die from the pain" anywhere. Still, I'm a guy, so I guess I can tolerate this kind of review...I thought I'd just get over the discomfort and went ahead with the surgery, anticipating the thought of pain
( I think there are definitely individual differences in surgical pain. I'm just talking about my own pain, and I'm sure there are people who feel less pain or more pain.)
On the day of surgery
, I was a little calm. They kept asking me to read and sign... a little bit. It was annoying. Why not do this in advance? Psychologically, in such a situation, how many people would sign after reading the words? It may be the best method for the hospital, but from the patient's point of view... A bit far... Anyway, I really didn't feel that it was important at the time. After
the intravenous injection is inserted, I go into the operating room. I
lie down and look at the ceiling and try to think about this and that, but my eyes open. The surgery is over. I hear a voice.
My face closes. I was in pain and wondered what was going on. Even though I was discharged the same day and wasn't wearing a pain reliever, I didn't feel much pain and was just embarrassed. This scene was something I did... It felt like it was just a little bit painful, but it wasn't so vague...
My wife looked at me with pity and helped me with various things, dressing me, etc. (How on earth do people who come alone do this... makes sense???) Meanwhile, the first thing that occurred to me was this.
I wonder if I'm still out of anesthesia. It doesn't seem straight. It's just like a dream... At the hospital, they told me I had to urinate, but I failed, and when I got home, they asked me to urinate and drink water and food.
But this isn't funny... Even if it's been a while... 10 times. I fail (this is what my wish for this day is, to just urinate, just to urinate).
If you are over 40 or have very poor joints, I recommend preparing a urine inducer in advance.
You will become so desperate that you will be able to drink water, coffee, and even porridge. ....I was discharged from the hospital the same day and had my first pee around 3 a.m.
The joy of accomplishing something big feels very brief.
The person I see in the mirror is not human. It looks and feels so swollen and ugly that it's hard to see
. I try to sleep in the chair.
I wake up in the chair
the second day after the surgery.
Of course, my neck hurts. With general anesthesia, my neck hurts first because of the pipes. Swallowing is painful for a few days . First of all, I wonder if this is a long time ago. It felt real, and a little bit. It hurts overall. Instead of the prescription prescribed by the hospital, I bought a separate painkiller at the pharmacy and when the pain got a little more, I took one more.
The swelling was so amazing that my cheeks and lips... It's probably the most disgusting shot I've ever seen in my life.
I also have a hard time looking in the mirror. And I can't open or close my mouth. I eat pumpkin porridge, lactic acid yogurt, and pudding that can just be dissolved and swallowed. To be honest, I have no appetite. I just eat. I want to take medicine....
And in the afternoon, I go to the hospital again to relieve the pain. (It is said that people who do not treat the pain reliever often experience less bleeding and less swelling.)
Once I got the pain reliever and came home... (at night) I felt like I was starting to get sick
. I was a little scared... so I took sleeping pills. After eating, I quickly try to sleep (in a chair, of course).
It's the 3rd day of surgery
. It's amazing.... How long should I start writing this down... First of all, I have a sore throat and spit up blood... I thought yesterday was the peak of the swelling... but this was a long time ago... Today. It was the peak and the real pain came, so I took the hospital medicine and took another painkiller...
but... it hurts. First, my jaw started to tingle and then started to tingle, as if I was receiving root canal treatment (a groan comes out of my mouth...)
I can't use the phone or the computer, I can't use it... I can't do anything else because I'm in pain. Ah... ah... I could just endure the sound for a bit, then it hurts again, I could tolerate it for a bit, then it hurts again... Just let today pass. Please let today pass. I just think about it.
I ate about half of the pumpkin porridge twice in the morning and evening. I drank some ice cream and
took sleeping pills again. I tried to fall asleep quickly in the chair.
It was
the 4th day after the surgery.
The pain was great for 3-4 days after the surgery. It just hurts. It hurts so much. If I had known it would be this bad... ..I was more worried (I would have done it anyway)
On
the 4th day , my teeth hurt, my ears hurt, my nose hurts, I can feel each and every one of them
.
(I feel a small amount of happiness for just a moment.)
The swelling is still the same and I apply cold compresses diligently. Until the 4th day...my body turns to ice once in a while. It continues to be cold. I
turn the boiler up and down in the computer room and repeat.
It will pass quickly. Let it pass... just that thought in my head...
5 days after the surgery,
the pain seems to have gone down by 20%. I can feel the swelling going down slightly. I can
play computer games and watch TV comfortably.
Eating is the same,
like cheesecake and tiramisu. I recommend it.
I went to the bathroom comfortably. I also washed my hair for the first time that day.
It hurts, but I don't remember washing my hair at all.
Still, I think I can live with it on the 5th day. I can even look in the mirror.
The morning of the 6th day after surgery,
the 2nd to 4th days were like a nightmare. My life... the best. ...a few days....now the pain seems to have improved a lot.
I just have a numb feeling...it
hurts a lot less so I feel happy...like...I search to see if there is anything worth eating.
Anyway, 5 days. After I sleep, I can relax in many ways,
and my daily life is completely out of the question.
I still just walk around the house. If you are about to have surgery, make sure to plan your schedule well. And they say that pain is different for everyone, so
it may be that I was the one who was in a lot of pain...
It's only now that I come to my senses . I had some free time so I wrote it down over the past few days.
I think that if you don't do anything, nothing will happen...