Best part of nasal surgery

[azurelunatic]

I can breathe! Without thinking about it!

Sometimes I feel slightly sneezy. I spray saline solution in my nose to loosen things up, and blow my nose.

AMAZING THINGS come out. But they weren't blocking my entire nose, just being a bit irritating.


I turn over in bed. Not because my nose requires it, but because the rest of my body would appreciate a shuffle. I feel a distinct bubbling within my sinuses, as of several air bubbles making their way to the top, but I can breathe through both sides of my nose. Even while lying down. Without thinking about it.

Right now my left nostril feels maybe 25% impeded. Maybe I should blow it again, because clearly there is a major blockage going on.


THIS IS AMAZING

Comments

[redsixwing]

Congratulations :) Breathing easily is so underrated.

[azurelunatic]

I thought the nose spray was living my best life. HOW LITTLE I UNDERSTOOD THEN.

[ghoti]

woohoo! noses! that do the thing!

[azurelunatic]

It's amazing, omg.

[kore]

I faint at the idea of nasal surgery but I'm omg SO JELLY (as a Boston friend of mine used to say) here with my deviated septum and fucked-up sinuses and narrow nasal passages &c &c. They fixed your septum and the hotdogs, is that right? Being able to blow your nose is awesome!

[azurelunatic]

Yes, they straightened my septum and resectioned my turbinates to make enough room and SUDDENLY I CAN BREATHE. It's amazing. I haven't been Actually Sick yet, and it's only a month out, but this is amazing.

They did not give me quite enough pain meds to get through the post-surgery if I'd been taking them precisely as written, but I have a habit of snapping them in half and seeing if I can get away with that level, and by using half-pills there were enough (plus I avoided the worst of the opiate side effects; one evening the tubes were Bad and I was heading into an entire anxiety attack and took a whole pill on the logic that this would make the nose feel very much Less; I wound up needing to lie down very quickly because I was feeling very spinny and slightly sick).

Breathing through the tubes after the surgery was already better than attempting to breathe through my chaotic meatballs. I probably could have used a ride the day I went in to get the tubes out, because that experience would have been much better medicated, but on the whole I have no regrets whatsoever.

[ljgeoff]

Yay! It's so wonderful that you feel better!

[azurelunatic]

I'm so pleased with it. I wish it could have happened earlier in my life.

[trobadora]

Yay for breathing! :D

[azurelunatic]

It's amazing! I get oxygen!!!

[vass]

I'm so glad for you. What a good body mod!

[azurelunatic]

It's beautiful, omg.

[silveradept]

Breathing is an important life choice, and I am glad you get to do it much easier now.

[pauamma]

Seconded. (If allowed to third it as well, I wouldn't object.)

[azurelunatic]

NOSE PARTY

[azurelunatic]

Less miserable sniffling in the middle of the night!

[nineveh_uk]

Discovering that nasal breathing is actually possible is THE BEST!!!! Ten years on and I still think quite often just think while breathing wow, there is actual room in there, the air flows, this is what it should be like.

/drive-by nasal surgery comment

[azurelunatic]

I'm so pleased. (And intermittently cranky that this wasn't discovered and fixed much earlier, but at least now it's fixed.)

[nineveh_uk]

I hope you keep enjoying it! (Better late than never is not entirely consolatory, but yeah - we take what we can get.)

[triadruid]

Woo hoo! (belatedly)