Hey guys, so this is the day after my cast removal.
I’m really sorry I couldn’t do a video yesterday
because I was half an hour late to my appointment
because of the traffic and then it took about 4.5 hours to get back.
So I couldn’t do one as it was very late.
So as you can see my cast is off, my stitches are out,
and I’m feeling good about it.
But my experience yesterday was,
it was a bit painful, I’m not gonna lie.
I’m very sensitive.
Even the most smallest like blood test would affect me.
So firstly I went in and I spoke to Dr. De Silva
and he just asked me how my recovery was going
and how I was feeling.
I just felt really excited to take the cast off,
so he explained that he was gonna take the cast off.
Unfortunately my cast was very, very tight
so it caused me a lot of discomfort.
He did say that most patients’ casts do come off quite easily,
but mine was just I don’t know extra secure.
So it did feel like my entire like nose was being ripped off,
and it was quite painful on the tip,
on the top and the tip here as well.
So that took about 10 minutes to take off
because it was so sticky.
And then he went to take the stitches out.
I’m not gonna lie about that, that was also very painful
only because I think I’m just very sensitive
and my pain threshold is like very low.
But it was, even though that was a bit painful
it was quite quick,
it just felt like he was sort of cutting it
and then pulling it and there was only, he only did that twice.
I think once on this side and once on this side.
So that was okay, it made my eyes water
but Dr. De Silva is very good, he was very gentle
and he stopped when I needed him to stop.
But once it’s off you feel so I just felt so free
and I felt like I’ve you know got my face back really.
My first reactions when he showed me my new nose in the mirror,
I was happy.
I mean to see that I didn’t have my bump anymore
which is the thing that bothered me the most,
that really made me happy.
I know that this is not really so much of the final result
because Dr. De Silva did explain that
I do have a lot of swelling on my tip still
and my face mid centre feels very numb.
So he then said that there's gonna be
a little bit of medication that he’s gonna put up my nose,
and then I asked what it was
and he said it’s actually a little injection.
So after all of that, I had I think 3 or 4 injections.
I was such a baby but bless him,
he was very gentle with that.
So I think he put one here, one here and 2 here.
Yesterday my family members were saying that
it looks very swollen,
and I think I got a bit of a hurtful comment
from one of my family members.
So that sort of made me a little bit insecure but I know that,
that the swelling is still quite a lot
and I think once you do decide to have rhinoplasty,
I think it’s best for yourself to accept that
it does take a good 6 to 12 months for it to completely heal
and to feel yourself again and I think that
maybe I wasn’t that prepared for it.
But I don’t regret going for it,
but it wouldn’t have changed my decision at all.
So the injections wasn’t, weren’t too bad,
very quick just like I couldn’t feel it on the tip at all,
but I felt it a lot here but the tip was still very numb.
Another thing that I forgot to mention in my video
because I just thought it was a normal process,
maybe it is, is that I can’t smile.
So if I show you I smile, but I can’t see any of my teeth
or any of my gums which I used to be able to before.
Before I thought that this is just because
the cast was on my nose.
But when I started looking further into it,
it says sometimes that the surgery can affect your smile
and where the lip hangs a lot lower
and like doesn’t show your teeth
because there are certain nerves
that have been caught that affect it.
I think last night it was quite an emotional night for me
because of the hurtful comment that I got
from one of my family members,
and then to know that it’s affecting my smile
and I can’t have that much of an expression.
I was a bit worried as to whether
this is gonna permanently affect it or not.
So I couldn’t sleep all night last night.
So this morning I actually phoned Dr. De Silva twice
and then he got back to me within half an hour straight away,
and he just reassured me that sometimes this does happen
and the smile does come back.
It’s just generally because of the swelling in my nose
and obviously the numbness
it doesn’t pick up the nerves to smile
but overtime and over the next 6 weeks it should come back.
So I’m just waiting for that.
As all in all with my nose itself, I’m not,
I’m not upset about it I’m happy with the result
and I know that it will only just get better.
So I would like to show you, firstly one of the photos of me,
well my one nose before
and then I’ll show you my side profile right now.
So as you can see, I have a huge bump over here
and as you can see I can show my teeth
and my lips like really pulling up and I’m a little bit upset
and a bit worried about that.
But I guess I can only just wait,
and wait for the swelling to go down.
So my nose from the front is straight.
The septum is straight and my nostrils
are like the same sort of size.
I didn’t even get much scaring with the stitches really,
Dr. De Silva just said you can put a little bit of make up
and go out and no one can even tell.
So yeah from the side,
this is how it looks, its straight
exactly how I wanted it, it doesn’t droop anymore.
I can’t really smile so I can’t tell whether,
what it looks like but my tip of the nose is still very swollen.
So I’m just waiting for that to sort of go down as time goes.
And this is my other side.
So I am happy with the result.
Dr. De Silva said the anything to sort of fasten
like that the process of like the swelling
is to make sure that I apply tape.
So yesterday he demonstrated that I need to,
he provided me with the tape and demonstrated
I need to apply it from here
going around from the nose and back up.
And he said to do this for the next 4 to 5 weeks I think.
And this is to just help it, help the swelling go down
because once the cast is off, it could start to swell again,
so the tape actually helps it.
Once I’m at home I can do this
and he said to do this overnight,
it doesn’t really need to be done in the day,
which is not too bad.
So you can go out and you know with a bit of makeup
I can just step out of the house or whatever
it’s not that much of a concern.
I did explain that I am getting a watery liquid from my nose
and he said sometimes this could be
a sign of a sinus infection
and as I did mention in my previous video
I had a bit of a weird smell,
and Dr. De Silva did say yesterday,
“Are you getting weird smells?”
And I said yeah I was in my nose
just a bit of an awful odour
and I know it’s coming from inside my nose.
So he said just to keep monitoring this
over the next couple of days,
usually you shouldn’t have any infection
because you are on a strong dose of antibiotics.
So I’m just gonna monitor this over the next couple of days
and see how it goes.
And yeah, nothing much really.
I think with my nose all in all I’m happy.
I think I’m more concerned about my smile,
I just want that to come back so I can show my teeth
because right now I can’t
and my lip is not lifting up as you can see.
But we’ll see how that goes.
It’s also nice to know that Dr. De Silva
like today Saturday on a weekend,
he’s taking his time out to speak to me
and reassure me that things will get better
and I’m due to follow him up in the next 6 weeks.
So maybe he’ll give me some more injections then
or seeing how it goes really.
And yeah that’s about it really
I’ll update you all tomorrow and take it from there.
Thanks guys, bye.