Nose Job Recovery Time
Rhinoplasty surgery recovery time might take up to one year, though after few weeks reshaped nose usually looks great and the patient can get back to his/her regular activities (except physical work or sports). Rhinoplasty recovery time is dependant. It is noticeable that intensity of post-operative treatment differs a lot at different stages. Feeling is not the same at first day and at the ending of the week. Step by step to full recovery and here you go: a new you.

Rhinoplasty recovery time depends on:

  • Procedure (surgery) complexity;
  • Individual features of the person;
  • Complications during surgery or post-operative time;
  • Smoking factor.

You will learn approximately how much time your nose recovery will take after visiting your surgeon.

Rhinoplasty recovery stages

Post-operative sleep. Pain after the nose plastic surgery might not let you sleep well. You should take painkillers surgeon has advised you. Other thing is the pose you should sleep. First week after nose reshaping, you should sleep on your back with your head raised. It helps to prevent bleeding and saves your nose from accidentally being squeezed. It also helps to minimize post-operative bruises and swelling.

Bruises and swelling around your eyes should fade away approximately at the end of the first recovery week. Bruising and swelling depends on nose surgery type (Open or closed surgery, broken nose bone). It also depends on patient's:

You can always ask your surgeon about how much time it will take to cure, though bruises and swelling after rhinopasty are inevitable.

Reducing bruising and swelling. To reduce both nose packing is being used, though not always. It's again depends on the type of nasal surgery and on doctors attitude to tapes. Taping is also possible at home. Tapes not only reduce bruising and swelling, its main purpose is to keep cartilage and bones tight in their place after surgery.

Another way to deal with it is icing. Use fruit, meat or whatever frozen bag. It makes a great deal, though some surgeons do not advice icing, so it's a good idea to ask first.

Stiff upper-lip - most surgeons say it is pretty common. This problem solves by it self in one or few weeks.

Other Tips and notices about recovery

  • Use painkillers. Use them if you were told to use it. Use it even if not. It is better to suppress pain before it reaches its highest intensity.
  • Don't use aspirin, ibuprofen, heparin, anti-inflammatories or any other medicament your rhinoplasty surgeon restricted. Stop using them two weeks before the plastic surgery and don't use it until you're allowed to.
  • Avoid using whatever containing vitamin E, ginseng - generally anything causing to bleed freely. Ask your doctor for more information about stuff to be avoided.
  • Save your nose from any accident hits. You don't want another surgery, do you?
  • Stop smoking few months before nose plastic surgery, and do not continue to do so during recovery time. It's a good reason to stop smoking. Smoking maximizes bruises and makes recovery time much much longer.
  • You shouldn't use any cosmetics until your doctor allows you to.
  • Do not exposure your nose to the sun after surgery since your skin then is very sensitive. Skin is much more sensitive to sunburns and should be covered with hat or any other thing.

Many things were noticed and I believe many were not. Please ask us a question or share your experiences, we highly appreciate your contribution.

 

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