Update: 4 months 2 weeks.

Well at 4 months and around 2 weeks I can safely say I absolutely hate my nose. I know doctors say wait at least 6 months but I recently took the opinions of rhinoplasty specialists in the UK and they have all agreed that my nose is not going to miraculously change over night and that this is more or less what I am stuck with.

So where do I start. My nose before - ok it was big - but at the same time...so are my lips and eyes so it was in proportion with my face. All I wanted removed was the hump to straighten the profile and maybe the tip brought up just slightly so it wouldn't drop even more after the hump was removed. What I've got now is a flat bridge at the top and a lump at the bottom for a tip with a pig like upturned nose. Also have a solid bump on the bridge and either rock hard callus formation or bone around the bridge so it's all very uneven and just .... don't even have a word to describe it. My nose face on wasn't that bad before but now (as you can see from the pictures) it's the worst part. The profile is also far from straight and I think it will need to be rebuilt in the future.

You are probably wondering whether I have contacted my surgeon, yes I have. Well he contacted me (or perhaps it was his wife as the email was in English) to ask about my progress and to update him with pictures so they can see the improvements(!) I replied a little while after with photo's and an email addressing my concerns. I finally got a very disappointing response after a few days. The email, I presume, was from the Dr himself this time in French and it was explaining one month post operative care. No, I'm not kidding. After going through emotional hell about what had been done to my face, the last thing I expected to hear from the Dr was information I had received 3 months before. I understand people can make mistakes and perhaps I was sent someone else's email but I replied telling the Dr that I was 4 months post-op and not 1 month and I still haven't heard from him again - almost 2 weeks after.

A word of advice to anyone considering rhinoplasty, think about it a million times over. You are ultimately putting your face in someone's hands to do as they please and the results can be worse than before and harm your confidence more than ever. For me, my next move is to have a consultation with a few specialists here in the UK at around 6 months and have my nose assessed to see what can be fixed and when. I was quoted around £7,000 by 3 different specialists after they saw my photo's and as a pretty standard price for revision surgeries so it was not worth going to Morocco to save on a primary rhinoplasty as the revision is costing me  3-4 times more!