Septoplasty
01 March 2005, 11:09 PM
#1
Septoplasty
Got to have Septoplasty performed as my nose is a bit deformed inside and I am a bit deviated apparently, anyone had this done, basically I think its like having your snotter ported.
It inolves a General anaesthetic, a night in hospital and two weeks at home sat on my **** watching telly, Xbox and doing sod all constructive, thats my plan and I am hoping there wont be too much pain to spoil it.
It inolves a General anaesthetic, a night in hospital and two weeks at home sat on my **** watching telly, Xbox and doing sod all constructive, thats my plan and I am hoping there wont be too much pain to spoil it.
02 March 2005, 01:56 PM
#4
You say you HAVE to have it done?
If you can do without, my advice to you would be NOT to have it.
General anaesthetic...........and a whopping dose, since they can't give you entonox to keep you out during the op., so you'll be ill afterwards and groggy for days!
You wake with a sort of sanitary towel taped under your nose, and no ability to breathe through your nose AT ALL, so swallowing is open mouth or your ears keep popping.
During your next day a nice nurse removes the first dressing, then comes back later and pulls about 5 yards of blood soaked bandage from EACH NOSTRIL
, which is agony, and of course, it bleeds again
Inside your nose are two "soft" polythene "splints", which are removed after 14 days. In the meantime, your nose runs all day and most of the night and the splints rub the inside edges sore as hell!
When the splints are removed, more pain: they are sewed THROUGH the septum, so the stitches have to be clipped then pulled out, then the splints are pulled/twisted out! They are about 3 inches long and your nose bleeds again.
Afterwards, you produce bogies about the size of an OLD ten pence piece, but about 8 mm thick, at least two, and you end up coughing them up, it's disgusting!
My op was UNSUCCESSFUL too, and I've declined another one, thanks very much. If i'd known waht I know now, it wouldn't have been done in the first place.
Alcazar
If you can do without, my advice to you would be NOT to have it.
General anaesthetic...........and a whopping dose, since they can't give you entonox to keep you out during the op., so you'll be ill afterwards and groggy for days!
You wake with a sort of sanitary towel taped under your nose, and no ability to breathe through your nose AT ALL, so swallowing is open mouth or your ears keep popping.
During your next day a nice nurse removes the first dressing, then comes back later and pulls about 5 yards of blood soaked bandage from EACH NOSTRIL
, which is agony, and of course, it bleeds againInside your nose are two "soft" polythene "splints", which are removed after 14 days. In the meantime, your nose runs all day and most of the night and the splints rub the inside edges sore as hell!
When the splints are removed, more pain: they are sewed THROUGH the septum, so the stitches have to be clipped then pulled out, then the splints are pulled/twisted out! They are about 3 inches long and your nose bleeds again.
Afterwards, you produce bogies about the size of an OLD ten pence piece, but about 8 mm thick, at least two, and you end up coughing them up, it's disgusting!
My op was UNSUCCESSFUL too, and I've declined another one, thanks very much. If i'd known waht I know now, it wouldn't have been done in the first place.
Alcazar
02 March 2005, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by alcazar
You say you HAVE to have it done?
If you can do without, my advice to you would be NOT to have it.
General anaesthetic...........and a whopping dose, since they can't give you entonox to keep you out during the op., so you'll be ill afterwards and groggy for days!
You wake with a sort of sanitary towel taped under your nose, and no ability to breathe through your nose AT ALL, so swallowing is open mouth or your ears keep popping.
During your next day a nice nurse removes the first dressing, then comes back later and pulls about 5 yards of blood soaked bandage from EACH NOSTRIL, which is agony, and of course, it bleeds again
Inside your nose are two "soft" polythene "splints", which are removed after 14 days. In the meantime, your nose runs all day and most of the night and the splints rub the inside edges sore as hell!
When the splints are removed, more pain: they are sewed THROUGH the septum, so the stitches have to be clipped then pulled out, then the splints are pulled/twisted out! They are about 3 inches long and your nose bleeds again.
Afterwards, you produce bogies about the size of an OLD ten pence piece, but about 8 mm thick, at least two, and you end up coughing them up, it's disgusting!
My op was UNSUCCESSFUL too, and I've declined another one, thanks very much. If i'd known waht I know now, it wouldn't have been done in the first place.
Alcazar
If you can do without, my advice to you would be NOT to have it.
General anaesthetic...........and a whopping dose, since they can't give you entonox to keep you out during the op., so you'll be ill afterwards and groggy for days!
You wake with a sort of sanitary towel taped under your nose, and no ability to breathe through your nose AT ALL, so swallowing is open mouth or your ears keep popping.
During your next day a nice nurse removes the first dressing, then comes back later and pulls about 5 yards of blood soaked bandage from EACH NOSTRIL
, which is agony, and of course, it bleeds againInside your nose are two "soft" polythene "splints", which are removed after 14 days. In the meantime, your nose runs all day and most of the night and the splints rub the inside edges sore as hell!
When the splints are removed, more pain: they are sewed THROUGH the septum, so the stitches have to be clipped then pulled out, then the splints are pulled/twisted out! They are about 3 inches long and your nose bleeds again.
Afterwards, you produce bogies about the size of an OLD ten pence piece, but about 8 mm thick, at least two, and you end up coughing them up, it's disgusting!
My op was UNSUCCESSFUL too, and I've declined another one, thanks very much. If i'd known waht I know now, it wouldn't have been done in the first place.
Alcazar
A lot depends on the surgeon, ie here in Wales they use packing rather than splints up the nose. which are removed after 18-24 hours. Packing is packed with grease to aid removal though I agree its about 5ft long but was painless when being removed.
I was out day after op and spent a few days home.
Agree about massive bogeys though. Its like pulling a long black slug out of your snout isnt it
My op was a great success as well so would recomend it to anyone.
Chip
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02 March 2005, 08:28 PM
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I've had the op too ...... not much bother, 2 nights as I had complications (I would have wouldn't I!)
3 hours I was in - they were removing masses of Polyps as well as drilling and reaming!
My notes resting on my chest when I was in to the pre-op room had written on them, "Remove Polyps"
When I was 'going under' I am CONVINCED they changed to "Remove Bollox"!!!!!
pete
3 hours I was in - they were removing masses of Polyps as well as drilling and reaming!
My notes resting on my chest when I was in to the pre-op room had written on them, "Remove Polyps"
When I was 'going under' I am CONVINCED they changed to "Remove Bollox"!!!!!
pete
03 March 2005, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Brit_in_Japan
No need to put a gloss on it alcazar, give it to him straight.
Seriously, there are two DIFFERENT ops here.
One is septoplasty, where the septum is realigned, the other is , IIRC, turbinectomy, basically reaming out your hooter.
Neither is nice, but I'd not want mine again. With septoplasty, I'm pretty sure you HAVE to have the nasal splints for 14 days while the septum heals to it's new shape.
Alcazar
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