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From: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Nose Jobs -- info wanted
Message-ID: <306@utflis.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 12:26:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 12:26:43 1985
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Reply-To: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
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Summary: 

In article <634@tellab1.UUCP> etan@tellab3.UUCP (Nate Stelton) writes:
>Has anybody had any first or second-hand experience with a nose-reduction
>operation.  My wife is very seriously considering one, and would like to hear
>2.  What are the risks?  Is it possible that it won't come out as expected?
>    Any health risks or long periods of pain or discomfort?
>3.  Might it help clear her nasal passages for easier breathing at night?

I could comment on these two questions only.  Mine was done to correct very
narrowed passages caused by a deviated septum (which also makes for a crooked
appearance).  My provincial health insurance paid since it was a medical 
purpose.  Risks include the ususal ones connected with hospital surgery, i.e.
you are under anasthetic (sp), eating hospital food etc. :-) and could have
a reaction or complications.  I vomited a lot in the recovery room which 
caused exceptional discoloration around the eyes but there was not *real pain*
involved.  It is icky to have your nose packed for a few days but no worse
than a bad cold.  Subsequently swelling goes down more slowly and some
startlingly large clots of blood slip into your throat and have to be
coughed up, but I was back at work within a couple of days, though taking
it easy and difficult to look *at*.
It should certainly improve your breathing even if your nose functioned
normally before since a nice straight nose on the outside should be ditto
on the inside.  I have a very marked improvement; fewer colds and those
I do get are much much shorter in duration.