A little about me. I'm a East Indian male who has always been self conscious of his nose. I always though it was huge like a birds beak. Not only did have a lot of projection but it was very wide.

Adding insult to my self image I broke my nose running across the ice. Why I was running across the ice? I'm not sure lol. The resulting break added a nice crooked shape to my already over projected wide nose. I have always wanted a slimmer straight profile non droopy tip type of nose. I wanted a more Caucasian type nose I guess.

As you can see on the before image on the left my nose had a lot of projection and was mildly droopy. From a 3/4 angle view my nose actually hides the view of my eye. It's not really a big deal but when you see after images with the after. It's really nice to be able to see both eyes from an angle. I really felt my nose was the central focus point on my face.

When my nose was broken I couldn't really breath great through one nostril with the deviated septum. But this wasn't the only cause for poor breathing through my nose. I have awful allergies and congestion would block up a different nostril from time to time which never is helpful.

Well I contacted that Surgeon and booked an appointment. He is a Rhinoplasty specialist. Basically all he does is Nose Jobs. No breast augmentation or lyposuction just noses. To my surprise and dismay and appointment for a consultation took a month. Which was like forever.

I met with him and we discussed what I wanted. Again a very nice person doctor. One of the things I liked about him was he worked out of a hospital which was very important to me. If anything goes wrong it really is great to be in a hospital setting with all the proper equipment and other doctors just incase of an emergency. Well I went home after the consultation and booked a surgery date. This time I was certain this doctor was the right plastic surgeon for my rhinoplasty. Again to my dismay he was booked for a very long time and the surgery would only take place 3 months later at the earliest. This is kind of hard to hear as these things you just want to get them over with. Waiting for that surgery date is such torture lol. I spent all my time looking at botched rhinoplasty surgery pictures , bad plastic surgey and reading other peoples stories. It really gets you worked up and scared lol.

Well I was in a situation that I had to find someone to come with me to the surgery. So I hired a nurse through craigslist! Cost about $160 and she drove me to the hospital and stayed with me all day then drove me home after surgery.

Surgery was a breeze. The anesthesiologist was funny. My favorite part was when I get the anesthesia lol. Anyway's I got home and no one was home so I hid out in my room for a couple days. Pretended like I was sick and just played on my xbox. I sounded like I had a cold so no one thought twice! You know what was strange is there was no real pain in my nose. I didn't feel any pain. I had to keep the cast on my nose for about a week then I met with the doctor for the follow up. The nurse removed my cast that day and it was really stuck on there! She pulled and yanked on it and I didn't feel any pain but I was sure nervous my nose would get pulled off lol. But it was pretty strong even in just one week. Well after she pulled it off she asked if I wanted to look. She passed me the mirror and well...it was just so big and swollen. She told me she had to tape it to help keep the swelling down. So she taped it up and you can see though images. She wanted to me to keep the tape on for about 3 more days.

So I went home sneaked up to my room and well just hung out for 3 more days. I then removed the tape. When my mom saw me she didn't even say anything. Actually a friend came by and didn't say anything. Even though half my nose was just cut off and it was really swollen. They asked me if I had a cold. Which I of course just said ya it's just a cold lol. I guess the swollen nose looked more like my original big nose lol. During the next month in the nighttime I continued to tape my nose to hopefully help keep the tip up and the swelling down. I don't know if that works. But I read it does lol.