Anyone had rhinoplasty (nose job!)?

[Pauper Princess]

Hi all,

I've been considering - seriously considering - plastic surgery on my nose for the past few months - started paying off a few debts and hoping to be debt free soon! So I'm really, really considering either a loan or saving for this op.

I'm 32 and I've been conscious of my nose since I started high school, when people took the mick out of me mercilessly for it (Honker, Concorde etc etc). Obviously as you get older you learn how to mask most of your flaws but it galls me that this is the one thing I can't do anything about!!

OH and I went to wedding a few weeks ago - I spent ages choosing a flattering dress, did my hair nice, put on my most flattering make-up etc. Thought I looked reasonable enough! Just got the pics back today and I'm sideways on to the camera in a lot of them... I look like a witch! Honestly. Like something Asda'd put out on Halloween. This stupid big ugly hook nose is really depressing me!

So, waffle aside. Has anyone ever had this done? How much should I be looking at paying (I'm thinking around £4,000 ish??)? Would I need to go through my GP or can I just go straight to the clinic?

Many thanks if anyone can help. I'm a reasonably confident person and my self esteem isn't too bad... I just don't want to spend the rest of my life being upset at photos!!!

[Garnet_Gem]

I had my nose done. I felt exactly the same as you and decided to have the operation. It made such a difference to how I felt. I don't even think about my nose now but when I had my old one it was always on my mind. Go for it.

[Pauper Princess]

Thanks Garnet_Gem!!! You've made my night :D

Have to wait until we've paid off the loan - am aiming to achieve this by Sep/Oct hopefully! - and then have to decide if I'm disciplined enough to save for it!!

But I definitely feel like the time's right now :)

Thanks :)

[longbaygirl]

Yes, I had a nose job done too - best thing I ever did. Always hated my nose, but was worried everyone would notice. I went abroad (South Africa) for tx, lost weight and had a new hair-do and got my teech whitened. Wanted to go away - no chance of bumping into anyone with a bandage on my face.

When I came back everyone just thought I looked different because I had lost weight/got a tan and had a new hair style!

Cost me about £3k all in - inc flights and accomodation, but that was a few years ago.

[Pauper Princess]

longbaygirl - thanks for your reply. I never even considered going abroad - wonder if they still do them? I'd be so scared in case something went wrong though :o

Mentioned it briefly to OH today and he was less than enthusiastic... as usual :rolleyes2

Think I'm going to send off for some info from a couple of clinics and see what kind of price I'd be looking at... I think the chances of him letting me go abroad are very very remote!!

[Den]

My advice is to check as many sites, and view Befor and After photos Rhinoplasty. Some sites: http://www.drkirwan.co.uk/photogallery.php?phalb_id=1&id_proc=1
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=rhinoplasty+&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB

[inkie]

I have assisted in many of these operations (working in operating theatres), and really made me cringe - eek! However, if you have the money and want it done, then why not?

[poppy_f1]

my best friend had a nose job done approx 2.5 years ago, she went straight to a few clinics then choose the one she felt most comfortable with, think she paid about 3.5K

[Den]

The odds are that no adult notices or even cares what your nose looks like, don't dwell on what happened in the playground, kids are cruel, but grow out of it.


But by they grow out your confidence is 'flashed away'. It can have a huge impact in child's future. Even if we don't notice it, it's in the head all the time.

I would do it if money are not the problem. Make sure you get right surgeon.

[sophlowe45]

That is my point really, it's in the head that everyone is staring at her nose, when they are not (and even if they are, so what, you are what you are, a product of generations of genes).

Photoshop is cheaper, and less painful, that's what the "beautiful people" use.

thats not true - rhinoplasty can make the biggest difference to how you look...

i paid £6,000 for mine but i needed open nose surgery and my nose had to be completely rebuilt...if its a complicated nose job it is imperitive that you go with a surgoen experienced in dealing with difficult noses, it may well be that a cheaper option may be a surgeon used to doing standard nose jobs where its a simple hump removal etc.