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Had Turbinoplasty done.

Breathing problems came back after a while.

Turns out it was shit diet and stress causing the inflammation

Thanks for telling me, doc.

Had turbinectomy and septoplasty. It was about ten times worse than when I had my wisdom teeth out. Apparently the pain was from the turbinectomy. I've heard many places that a septoplasty isn't particularly painful, so I assume the pain was from the turbinectomy. I know the bleeding sure was. I slept with gauze under my nose like a maxi pad for weeks. Later I started passing massive blood clots. One day during breakfast my nose felt kinda runny, so I kinda wiped it. I expected some blood or bloody snot. Instead a giant slug like blood clot plopped out onto my finger. I did not finish my meal.

>>140095

I had an impacted wisdom tooth taken out with local.

I'm not having nose bleeds but this is more uncomfortable. Less acute stabby pain but it's been very little sleep for me with my nose being so stuffy/full/compressed. I get splints out soon and I hope that helps.

>>140109

yeah i had septo with turbinate reduction

the idea is you're going to suffer for a few days/weeks for a lifetime of breathing great (at least that's why I did it)

I actually got about 6-8 hours of sleep early this morning (i'm OP) so I'm feeling pretty good, I get the splints taken out tomorrow.

Some moments are worse than others and I can't tell you if it is worth it or not because I don't know the long term outcome but everything seems "right" so far. Doctor had to drill out some bone and said "I made him work for it" like it was hard, took about an hour for him to finish.

>>140118

I hear things get easier after the splints are out. Best of luck anon. Hope we can both breath easier after all this.

>>140119

thanks m8

>>140119

Splints will be taken out in 10 hours, I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight. I'll post an update when it happens!

>>140119

Getting the splints out does help. When I had the turbinectomy/septoplasty combo, the massive amount of gauze I initially had in my nose was much worse. I barely slept that first night. They told me to sleep in a chair. My mom (an ex nurse) got the comfy chair and put it in her room to keep an eye on me. The gave me hydrocodone to take every four hours. I would catch two or three minutes of sleep, and be sure I had slept for several hours. I would wake my mom up, asking her if it was time for my next dose yet. She has the patience of a saint, and never snapped or yelled at me once. Every time she would say, "No Anon, it's only been a little while. I'll wake you up when it's time. Try to go back to sleep."

Not to hijack the thread further, but here's another amusing anecdote involving the surgery:

When I woke up in the recovery room, I was feeling no pain. You see, they had overdosed me on Demerol. I was still obese as hell back then, and they figured since I was such a fat fuck, they should crank up the pain medicine to compensate. They overcompensated, and I wasn't breathing so well. I was nodding off like a junkie, and was breathing very shallowly. I have no idea how long I had been out of surgery, but when I came to, there was a nurse sitting in a chair next to me imploring me to take a few deep breaths for her. "Come on Anon, give me three nice big breaths," she'd say. I'd make the effort to consciously take three deep breaths, then I'd let myself slip back into that chemical bliss, which would make me take shallow involuntary breaths. Then she'd tell me to take a few more breaths. What seemed like a few minutes later, but could have been hours, my parents came in to see me. I remember my mom walking up and after a pause saying to the nurse, "Uuuh, his vitals look kind of low, is everything OK?" The nurse tried to play it off all cool, "Yeah we overcompensated for his weight with the pain medicine a little, but he's fine." Once I got home and the Demerol wore off, the night from hell began.

>>140109

>That sounds fucking awful, fuck. I just want to breath easy and not sound like such a fucking nerd when I talk.

It did neither for me. I'm pretty sure he fucked up my septoplasty, though.

>>140135

Goos luck, we're all counting on you.

>>140144

I actually don't have any gauze/packing. Just the splints. He had to saw some bone (I think my maxilla, not sure, will ask when I'm there today)

I've been sleeping on the couch all week and elevated for most of it except the last 2 nights. I'm just now being able to sleep for more than 2-3 hours at a time which is great. Procedure was 1 week ago.

I barely took any of my hydrocodone, like 2-3 and I took them one half a tab at a time.

ok apt is coming soon :) forgot to hit post!

I just had septorhinoplasty with turbinate reduction last month.

Pain was fine, I didn't take any of the meds for pain at all. It was just uncomfortable being all congested and bloody and swollen. Swelling isn't gone yet, they tell me it could be a couple months.

Breathing has improved substantially, but my nose was all fucked up in lots of ways, inside and out.

I'm glad I had it done, although they reshaped it in a way that I'm not real happy with, and I get short dizzy spells now, maybe related to the anesthesia or something?

>>140156

Were you a mouth-breather before the surgery? I was, and now I've got some work to do in order to break that habit.

Good luck bro, we're gonna make it.