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Have any of y'all have experience with a deviated septum?
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:39 pm
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:39 pm
I had a bad fall the other day and x-rays showed no broken bones, but dr said I have a deviated septum. Nose is swollen and have 2 black eyes.
This post was edited on 1/25/21 at 3:40 pm
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Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:40 pm to tigerfan1180
Thought I had one in college. Turned out to be the largest gooiest snot rocket the world has ever seen.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:40 pm to tigerfan1180
That used to always be what chicks who went in and got nose jobs said they had.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:42 pm to tigerfan1180
Yes and had surgery to fix and shite still don't work.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:42 pm to tigerfan1180
Deviated septum? No. Perforated septum?
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:44 pm to tigerfan1180
Read deviated scrotum.... WTF?
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:44 pm to tigerfan1180
I had surgery to repair mine. It hurt like a son of a bitch when I woke up.
I blew the biggest, bloodiest boogers one could imagine out of my nose for like a month afterwards. Truly a sight to behold.
I blew the biggest, bloodiest boogers one could imagine out of my nose for like a month afterwards. Truly a sight to behold.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:44 pm to tigerfan1180
knew some girls in college that used it as code word for rhinoplasty over the summer break.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:45 pm to tigerfan1180
Got one with a broken nose as a young teenager.
Got it surgically corrected at around 30 years old.
It was the worst surgery I've had out of 12+
Locked myself in the game room for 2 weeks with my wife being allowed in to bring sustenance and meds only.
It sucked.
Got it surgically corrected at around 30 years old.
It was the worst surgery I've had out of 12+
Locked myself in the game room for 2 weeks with my wife being allowed in to bring sustenance and meds only.
It sucked.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:49 pm to tigerfan1180
Yep. Never got it corrected because a couple of guys I knew said it didn’t help much. Basically have a low sense of smell and feel like my nose is clogged more than usual.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:50 pm to tigerfan1180
Yep. Had surgery at 18. Oxygen intake through my nose was way below average and I would sleep half the day in school.
Surgery wasn’t bad but the recovery was kinda rough. Prolly had 10 feet of bloody gause to unravel out of my nostrils.
Surgery wasn’t bad but the recovery was kinda rough. Prolly had 10 feet of bloody gause to unravel out of my nostrils.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:51 pm to tigerfan1180
I had the sinus surgery (not sure if the same thing?) as a two-fer when I got my tonsils out at 17.
Changed my life. Sleeping with your month closed after years of being unable to is indescribable. Such a deeper sleep.
Changed my life. Sleeping with your month closed after years of being unable to is indescribable. Such a deeper sleep.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:51 pm to tigerfan1180
Had mine fixed about 10 years ago. The pain wasn't a big deal for me but having to sleep with my head raised for 2 weeks was annoying.
I can breath through both nostrils now though
I can breath through both nostrils now though
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:52 pm to tigerfan1180
I had several broken noses in high school that deviated the hell out of my septum. I ended up getting surgery to clear out the pipes but ill be damned, it was actually harder to breathe than before the surgery
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:52 pm to tigerfan1180
Sometimes it’s because you broke your nose.
Sometimes it’s because your jaw and maxilla are under developed. The soft tissue is the right size, but the bones beneath it aren’t.
Palate expanders sometimes fix deviated septums.
Sometimes it’s because your jaw and maxilla are under developed. The soft tissue is the right size, but the bones beneath it aren’t.
Palate expanders sometimes fix deviated septums.
This post was edited on 1/25/21 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 1/25/21 at 3:59 pm to tigerfan1180
I had a broken nose (deviated septum) from high school that also created a mass in my sinus cavity. Had it corrected and mass removed around 40 and the only really bad part was having the packing removed. They used to use gauze as packing and it was the second worst pain I had ever experienced while it was removed. Gauze is no longer used and it is now some sort of fine powder that is packed in and dissolves on its own over a week or two.
It helped me a lot to have the surgery and knowing what I know now I would do it again. I was back to work about 3 days afterwards, with gauze packing and bandages.
It helped me a lot to have the surgery and knowing what I know now I would do it again. I was back to work about 3 days afterwards, with gauze packing and bandages.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:08 pm to tigerfan1180
Had corrective surgery in my mid 30’s. Doc came into the room the next day and took the packing out. Said everything was fine, so wife left to go to work. Started hemorrhaging. Got the nurse and she gave me 1/4 gr morphine. Stopped the bleeding, but I didn’t care.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:09 pm to tigerfan1180
As others have said, the surgery to correct it can be a bad recovery. I think most of them are balloon now, but when I had it in 2000, they basically broke it, packed it full of gauze, and put a cast on the outside. They also lasered some of the sinus cavity to reduce tissue size. I had an ENT do the septum repair, and a plastic surgeon did the rest. I woke up in horrible, excruciating pain. The next thing I felt was a nurse stick a needle in my arm that knocked me back out. Woke up again feeling loopy.
My mom drove me home, and I had the passenger seat laid all the way back. She stopped at the pharmacy to get my medicine. We got home, and I made it inside ok, but when I got near the kitchen sink I felt nauseous and threw up blood all in the sink. I still don't know how I lunged and managed to get it all in the sink in my drugged up state, but I guess instincts kicked in. Slept in a recliner for a week with a squeeze bottle of water next to me. You'd wake up with the worst dry mouth and you couldn't sip on anything or use a straw, so I had to just blast the back of my mouth with water so I would quit gasping for air.
I had to do saline rinses several times a day. Alternating the Lortab and Ibuprofen, and the pain was manageable. After about 2-3 days I was just taking Ibuprofen. When they took the packing out a week later, it was both the worst and best feeling at the same time. Felt like a foot long slug was being pulled out of your brain, but right after you could breathe better than ever.
Also, if you end up with the cast like I did, you can't shower while it is on. They actually told me to take a long, like 20-30 minute, hot shower before I came back to the office to get it removed. The steam loosens it up some. I pretty much shaved my head before the surgery since I knew I couldn't shower for a week and didn't want to deal with greasy long hair.
My mom drove me home, and I had the passenger seat laid all the way back. She stopped at the pharmacy to get my medicine. We got home, and I made it inside ok, but when I got near the kitchen sink I felt nauseous and threw up blood all in the sink. I still don't know how I lunged and managed to get it all in the sink in my drugged up state, but I guess instincts kicked in. Slept in a recliner for a week with a squeeze bottle of water next to me. You'd wake up with the worst dry mouth and you couldn't sip on anything or use a straw, so I had to just blast the back of my mouth with water so I would quit gasping for air.
I had to do saline rinses several times a day. Alternating the Lortab and Ibuprofen, and the pain was manageable. After about 2-3 days I was just taking Ibuprofen. When they took the packing out a week later, it was both the worst and best feeling at the same time. Felt like a foot long slug was being pulled out of your brain, but right after you could breathe better than ever.
Also, if you end up with the cast like I did, you can't shower while it is on. They actually told me to take a long, like 20-30 minute, hot shower before I came back to the office to get it removed. The steam loosens it up some. I pretty much shaved my head before the surgery since I knew I couldn't shower for a week and didn't want to deal with greasy long hair.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:15 pm to tigerfan1180
In my early 20's I began having horrific headaches. The pain was so bad that when I got a headache I had to lie down in a blacked-out room with no light or noise. This went on for over a year and it was getting to the point where I would miss far too much work. In any case, I ended up in the ER one evening with such a painful headache that I thought I was about to have a stroke or something. The emergency
The emergency Room doc ordered a CT Scan of my head and an astute Radiation tech noticed something odd in my ethmoid sinus. THe did a round of regular x-rays of my sinuses and one side was totally blocked and full of fluid/snot.
Went to an ENT doc and he scheduled me for surgery. When I woke up I had a plastic splint inside each side of my nose that was wired through the middle. Doc told me I had a benign tumor inside the ethmoid sinus that was the size of a hen's egg and a badly deviated septum. Doc had removed the tumor, fixed the septum, and did a Turbinectomy. I had to lie with my head elevated for two weeks and had to remain in bed the whole time with only trips to the bathroom and an occasional trip to the kitchen for food. The main concern was me moving too much and causing a hemorrhage.
When the doc removed the splint it was painful as hell and when he pulled out the gauze packing, I about passed out from the pain. I don't know how they packed so much gauze into my nose but they did. Once I was fully recovered my headaches were totally gone and I could breathe much better than before. I still have some positional stuffiness but nothing like before. In my case, it was a badly needed surgery and it worked well.
Edited to fix spelling and grammar errors
The emergency Room doc ordered a CT Scan of my head and an astute Radiation tech noticed something odd in my ethmoid sinus. THe did a round of regular x-rays of my sinuses and one side was totally blocked and full of fluid/snot.
Went to an ENT doc and he scheduled me for surgery. When I woke up I had a plastic splint inside each side of my nose that was wired through the middle. Doc told me I had a benign tumor inside the ethmoid sinus that was the size of a hen's egg and a badly deviated septum. Doc had removed the tumor, fixed the septum, and did a Turbinectomy. I had to lie with my head elevated for two weeks and had to remain in bed the whole time with only trips to the bathroom and an occasional trip to the kitchen for food. The main concern was me moving too much and causing a hemorrhage.
When the doc removed the splint it was painful as hell and when he pulled out the gauze packing, I about passed out from the pain. I don't know how they packed so much gauze into my nose but they did. Once I was fully recovered my headaches were totally gone and I could breathe much better than before. I still have some positional stuffiness but nothing like before. In my case, it was a badly needed surgery and it worked well.
Edited to fix spelling and grammar errors
This post was edited on 1/25/21 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:18 pm to tigerfan1180
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Have any of y'all have experience with a deviated septum?
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