Rooster's Septoplasty and Turbinate Reduction

[roster]

Let's call a shovel a one-person manual instrument of excavation. The doc wrote down Double Septoplasty and Bilateral Submucosa Resectioning of the Turbinates.

I don't want to bust up SleepyNoMore's thread so I am going to quote from it in this new thread:

[quote="jburnham"]...... Septoplasty alone doesn't have to be so rough. I had splints with breathing tubes instead of packing and was able to breath through my nose. I used my full face mask with heated humidifier starting from the recovery room so my throat never got so dry. ......

[JeffH]

Here's what they look like.

[marymoon]

I had those splints when I had a septoplasty back in July. They only reached the very edge of my nares so you couldn't see them unless my head was tilted back, but my nose was so very sore and tender from the surgery that I couldn't take any direct pressure on the nares at all. I have a Hybrid and it was a week after surgery (and after having the splints removed) before I could use my mask because the upward pressure of the nasal pillows hurt like all get out.

[Guest]

LittleRedROOSTER, My 16 year old grandson had septoplasty & rhinoplasty and had the splints and they didn't really bother him at all except when they came out, it was a little uncomfortable, they told him to use a saline nasal spray as soon as he got out of surgery and got home, he would just lean over the sink and spray it up in the nasals gently and let it run out, he said it kept it more comftorable for him and the blood wasn't drying up in his nose as bad as it would of without using it but, you do only what your DOC tells you k? He went to Hollywood, Ca. to have it done so had a 120 mile drive home right out of surgery, he did well. ROOSTER, you should NOT lay on your side, I am a side sleeper but have been in a sitting up position on my BACK since the surgery on Tuesday, use alot of pillows. IT has been a fight to almost the finish not side sleeping, this is the first time in my LIFE that I haven't side slept, wow! I can't wait to get back on my SIDE, it's hard to tolerate but you can do it. Hang in there sweetie and don't stress, your sweet wife will be there with you all the way, Thank "GOD" they gave my husband a week off to be with me , or??? Anyway just rest & take care of yourself, it really not as bad as I made it out to be, I am just a RARE CASE ! Goodluck

[roster]

.......... your sweet wife will be there with you all the way, ..........

The idea of this surgery is getting worse every day.

[wabmorgan]

I had those splints... and I had very little bleeding!!!!!!!!

I think though you can forget using ANY nasal interface. There is still packing used in front of the splints at the end of your nose near the nostrils and you will still have a "drip pad" as well.

I could still breathe even with packing in.... but it was like having a really stuffed up nose.

I had actually gotten The F&P Orcial oral mask for this..... I used that for one night only..... I awoke with blood(not much) where it had ran out of my nose from the air being blown in through my mouth!!!!!

They also ran a sleep test on me for an overnight stay at the hospital.... doc told me not til packing came out and even then I didn't use cpap for nearly a month.

After packing came out... I could breath better even out of the splints than before without them.


Also, for a couple of months, the Activa was the only mask I could use.... it puts no presure or weight on your nose:)

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[goose]

Rooster my friend, I'm not facing the surgery nor have I had it, but I just want to say good luck to you.
From the sounds of others having the procedure, it will improve your life a bunch!!!!
Take good care, follow what the docs tell you -- and keep us up on how you're doing when you can.....

Take care
cheers
goose

[roster]

Rooster my friend, I'm not facing the surgery nor have I had it, but I just want to say good luck to you.
From the sounds of others having the procedure, it will improve your life a bunch!!!!
Take good care, follow what the docs tell you -- and keep us up on how you're doing when you can.....

Take care
cheers
goose

Thanks for the encouragement.

As far as "improving my your life a bunch", this comment reminded me of something the ENT doc said. We discussed my condition, particularly air flow and sleep apnea.

The doc said I am sure you have experienced a "cognitive decline". A lot of people have called me stupid but this is the first time I felt good about the guy doing it. The doc said things should improve if I start getting a good air flow and sleep.

But before DreamStalker asks, no I probably won't get smart enough that I will become a bleeding heart socialist.

[DreamStalker]

Rooster my friend, I'm not facing the surgery nor have I had it, but I just want to say good luck to you.
From the sounds of others having the procedure, it will improve your life a bunch!!!!
Take good care, follow what the docs tell you -- and keep us up on how you're doing when you can.....

Take care
cheers
goose

Thanks for the encouragement.

As far as "improving my your life a bunch", this comment reminded me of something the ENT doc said. We discussed my condition, particularly air flow and sleep apnea.

The doc said I am sure you have experienced a "cognitive decline". A lot of people have called me stupid but this is the first time I felt good about the guy doing it. The doc said things should improve if I start getting a good air flow and sleep.

But before DreamStalker asks, no I probably won't get smart enough that I will become a bleeding heart socialist.

I have asked no one to become a socialist nor would I ... but maybe you will get to see that not all capitalism is a perfect utopia either. I like the traditional capitalism, but perhaps with your surgery you will be better able to smell that the multinational corporations are indeed the most evil of capitalism?

And your cognative decline is not all that serious yet ... for Mr Bush on the other hand, Septoplasty and Turbinate Reduction may be too little too late and a brain transplant may be in order

I too wish you the best with your surgery and the quickest recovery too.

[JZ]

Rooster,

We are all rooting (or crowing?) for you. Good luck with your surgery. Let us know how you are doing afterwards when you are up to it.

Janna

[Jere]

I had the procedure done TWICE and I live to tell about it. Uncomfortable as all-get-out for a few days but the long-term improvement in breathing (and marked reduction in number of sinus infections) made it all well worth it. My son is having his septum fixed over Winter break (here's hoping he wont need need the rather rare repeat procedure)!

Good luck (but you wont need it).

[SleepyNoMore]

I am sorry Rooster, I just found this but I responded to your last post on my surgery page. I know that you are very nervous like I was this being the night before surgery but honestly the morning I woke up to go I wasn't really that nervous or scared as I thought I would be! I guess I just excepted it and forgot about it You are going to come through this like a trooper! Ya know for some strange reason "GOD" made men alot stronger than us women so I think your gonna heal faster than me and I feel it that your are going to march right in there like I did, and not stress just except the fact that it will be over in 1 hour and then the recovery is on and 7 days later OH MY GOSH!, I CAN BREATHE like I have never breathed before, your gonna just love it.. Post as soon as you can, BEST WISHES FOR A PERFECT SURGERY & A PERFECT RECOVERY, like it or not, I'm gonna pray for yu to Sweet Dreams LittleRedRooster! Take Care, see ya when you are feeling better... SleepyNoMore

[wabmorgan]

Glad you are doing better Stevie

Rooster, I was nervous as crap about having mine done as well... up till that point, I hadn't even been in a hospital since I was born!!!!!!!!!!!

Never been under or anything!!!!!!!!!!

By the time I went in.... and as early as it was... like 5am(I usually don't even get up til 10am), I was so tired that I think I just didn't care.

The headache I had was horrible.... but I think it was well worth it... I would do it again if I had to.

Lastly... I also got a straight nose out of the deal... vanity be what it may.... that was as always something I wanted to have fixed anyway!

[roster]

I am elated!

We arrived at the hospital at 6:45 a.m. today and left at 3:00 p.m.

I had to take the cpap machine in case an overnight stay became necessary. I took my old machine and that blame Respironics Total Face Mask. Before the surgery the nurses took it and passed it around to marvel and laugh at it. One of my nurses is a cpap patient, so she got a particularly good laugh out of it. When the surgeon came in he told me to bring it to first post-op office visit. He wants to show it to the sleep lab director who thought the picture I brought on my last visit was a fraud.

Then I went under and about noon I woke up in the recovery first stage.

Oh, before I forget it, I had 10 female nurses during all that time I was there. They ranged in age from about 25 to 45 and 8 of them were knockouts! How nice; it really kept me distracted from the trauma that was being inflicted upon me. I bet I will have some sweet dreams in the next few days. I love those tight bright-white nurses pants. (But I don't want to dhave another surgery.)

Anyway when I woke up at noon my throat was hurting as badly as anything has every hurt in my life. The nurse gave me some Chloraseptic lozenges and there was no relief. She finally gave me a shot of morphine and it took about an hour for the throat pain to subside. I am at home, it's almost 6:00 p.m. now and the throat pain has not returned so far.

It is funny that I had very little pain in the nasal airways where the cutting was done. But that oxygen tube either rubbed my throat or the oxygen itself irritated it badly. The anestisiologist (sic) said blood is very caustic and the dripping could have caused much irritation.

We arrived home at 4:00 p.m. and I ate a bowl of chicken noodle soup with a pack of crushed saltines in it. I believe it is going to stay down and my daughter is getting me a pint of egg drop soup from the local takeout Chinese in a little while.

I have a mustache bandage that must be changed every few hours due to blood saturation. The strategy tonight is to attempt to use my F&P432 with pressure range of 7 - 10, A-Flex setting 3, and sleep on my sides. The ENT does not want 18 - 20 cm pumped in there yet, so I will have to stay off my back.

The doc says the next three nights might be rough. He will take the splints out Friday and expects that my weekend will be better.

I know my surgeon is very good and so was everyone else at the hospital. There were really a lot of people praying for me and I wonder if this helped? In any case I am glad for the prayers and thanks to you all!!

[sleepycarol]

I am so glad that you are done and doing so nicely!!

Be sure and take it easy -- DO NOT OVERDO IT!! You might get a false sense of well-being and over do it and then really be in a spot.

Take it easy and have your loved ones wait on you.

Oh by the way -- better keep the nurse comments to yourself as you don't want your wife to give you a swat do you?