Have any of y'all have experience with a deviated septum?

That used to always be what chicks who went in and got nose jobs said they had.

Deviated septum? No. Perforated septum?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.