Nose Surgery to Pep You Up?
Many plastic surgery patients ask their surgeons for nose surgery (a nose job) because they don’t like the shape, size or look of their nose.
But there can be another culprit inside a nose that otherwise looks just fine on the outside.
Often, because of a sports injury, a quirk of nature, allergy, too much cigarette smoke or mold in the environment a structure inside the nose known as the septum becomes twisted or blocked or – in medical terms – deviated.
The septum is a thin wall inside the nose that separates the two nasal passages in which air flows to your lungs as you breathe.
If the septum causes blocking, the nose doesn’t drain properly and you are likely to complain of sinusitis. And that brings us to our point – that nasal surgery could also give you more energy.
One of the chief signs of sinusitis is fatigue.
According to an article in the professional journal, Laryngoscope, chronic fatigue is a common complaint of 14 percent of Americans who have sinusitis.
Chronic fatigue doesn’t just mean you feel a little tired.
Judy Foreman, a health writer with the Boston Globe newspaper, wrote that her sinusitis meant that a case of fatigue would last for weeks.
Judy is not talking feeling a little run down. She means toe-dragging, take-a-nap-at-one-p.m., exhausted-first-thing-in-the-morning fatigue.
According to WebMD, many nose job patients also complained of sinus problems.
But a 45-minute operation, a surgical repair of a deviated septum — known as a septoplasty — can open the airway, allow the sinus to drain and relieve the fatigue. Moreover, a septoplasty could be part of a rhinoplasty and at least partly covered by insurance.
Patients say having a septoplasty is like getting rid of a ball and chain.
The other problem with that type of fatigue is that many millions of dollars (along with Yen, Pounds and Euros) are spent on over-the-counter remedies to fight what patients think are cases of “sinusitis.”
Actually, it requires an X-ray to diagnose a case of sinusitis. But a plastic surgeon can see with a look up the nose if the septum is deviated.
But if blocked air passages and sinusitis symptoms are your complaint, maybe a nose surgery is in your future. Only a doctor can tell for sure.
View some before and after pictures of nose jobs.
What shape is your nose in?
admin @ March 25, 2009