Hello,
it has been about a month since I had my first rhinoplasty for cosmetic purposes.
It's a long post, so to summarize it briefly:
(current)
advantage: The nose has become taller, and the impression looks sophisticated.
It is safe because it is not an implant but autologous cartilage.
Disadvantage: After surgery, the nose becomes hard like a rock, causing a strong foreign body sensation.
I did it in the safest way possible, never using a pig's nose
, but the biggest worry is that I don't know what will happen in 5 or 10 years.
Because it is costal cartilage, it is difficult to shape it exactly as desired.
Costal cartilage must be harvested, which leaves a surgical scar. It
is said that about 10 to 20% of the cartilage is absorbed later.
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The surgery was done in Daegu.
Implants are dangerous and I have a lot of resistance to them, so
I searched and searched for other methods, and I found out how to raise the nose by granulating the costal cartilage.
I searched on YouTube and looked for videos on how the surgery was performed.
Even though the surgery scenes were gross and scary, I was able to do it. I needed to know what type of surgery was done on the nose.
Anyway, among the places that perform costal cartilage surgery,
I trusted the plastic surgery clinic in Daegu, so I made an appointment and had the surgery the next day.
Even though it was local, it took over 6 hours for a round trip.
But I think once the surgery is done, it's for life. I went the distance.
I thought it would be too unreasonable to do
the first surgery
by making an incision in the chest and removing the costal cartilage. Before I went to the hospital, I only wanted to shave my beak, use ear cartilage, or tie cartilage at the tip of my nose (no implants at all).
But at that hospital, they did all rhinoplasty using costal cartilage, right? I was wrong. Haha (...)
Before the surgery, I asked the consultant to not raise the side lines too much and to make them as natural as possible. I
had a bit of a curved nose on my nose, so I thought I would shave it off
. They said they would raise my nose according to my height. I was surprised.
And when I received the consultation, they said that my nose was too wide, so I needed to shave the wider part rather than the curved beak.
So I shaved the wide part.
After the surgery, I felt more satisfied with the wider part than with the nose being raised. It's bigger and thinner.
I needed to harvest the costal cartilage, so I made an incision about 1cm under my breast. Perhaps because it's only been a month, the scar remains red.
I've been applying scar ointment diligently,
and the surgery didn't hurt at all. It's so amazing!!
After the surgery, I had a hard time
breathing for a few days. Blood came behind my nose and my mouth tasted
like blood . If I opened my mouth wide, my nose hurt, so I had to be careful when eating. The
area where the costal cartilage was harvested throbbed like muscle pain, so every time I sat, stood, or lay down. I was in pain... It was like that for about 3 weeks.
I was a little depressed because all I could do was take medicine, rest, and sleep.
After 10 days of that, I went to the hospital to get a splint,
but my nose cartilage had moved and was out of shape, so I had to wear the splint longer than others. I did it... I was frustrated.
It's been a month since I'm writing this -
I'm so glad that I haven't had any major side effects so far, and there's nothing I'm really dissatisfied with.
But as you can see from the photo, it's not a half beoseon or a straight line, and it's just higher than the existing nose? It's a bit disappointing that it looks like that.
It looks natural.. I don't know because the swelling hasn't gone down yet, but that's what I think right now.
Looking at pictures of other people who had surgery at the same hospital,
some people changed dramatically and looked much better,
while others, like me, only slightly improved? I think it was
a case by case case,
and before the surgery, my nose wasn't pretty, but it wasn't ugly either, but now
it's so hard, it's like a rock, and
I wonder if I had the surgery for no reason. I miss my soft nose.
What's so good about having a soft nose? There's nothing, but before,
I didn't think much of it because it was so natural that I could move naturally according to my facial expressions and feel the natural touch,
but now that I've turned into a rock, I feel a little lost.
I like how I looked better than before and
I did it in the safest way, but
a part of me feels like I'm wearing a time bomb on my nose. I feel anxious, and
if I had known what I was feeling before the surgery,
I would have thought about it more carefully, or maybe tie the cartilage at the tip of my nose? I think it was only a little bit.
Plastic surgery
is intentionally inflicting trauma on the body, such as a car accident,
for beauty purposes
. I hope everyone will think carefully!
SUNGYESA
