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Mr Peter Hodgkinson 2023-05-23 Person 5 5 0

I had closed rhinoplasty in march 2023 after never having any surgery before and I’m really happy with my results even though I’m only 10 weeks post op. I felt like I wasn’t pressured into the surgery at all it was more the other way around, which I liked as I didn’t want a surgeon trying to convince me or push me into booking the surgery. Peter was really chilled about the whole thing, he hand drew my nose told me how it would look and I was happy with that. I wanted it to be as natural as possible and wanted it to look like the nose I could of been born with, and what I ended up having done was very small alterations to give me a perfect nose for my face. I was absolutely terrified going into the surgery almost shaking with nerves but all the staff were exceptionally lovely and reassuring I can’t rate them enough. When I woke up I felt terrible, but Peter came through straightaway to tell me he was really happy with how the surgery went and he was confident I would love it. I felt really sick after being transferred into a recliner and I had to have some anti sickness medication so I could dip some digestives in my cup of tea to eat. Reality is you can’t really eat at all with how limited your movement is in your face. I had no pain, just discomfort from the pressure of swelling and the face cast. I was discharged after 4 hours and felt much perkier with my boyfriend laughing at how bad I looked. You definitely need a nurse maid for the first 4-5 days, the pain kicks in day 3/4 for me but trying to sleep was awful. My nose gel stents fell out of day 5 into my Greek yogurt, so the swelling seemed to go down fairly quickly, or so I thought. The face cast was awful and itchy and very uncomfortable but my dog banged my face a few times so I was great full for it being there. It fell off after 2 weeks and 6 days, I wasn’t meant to have it removed until 3 1/2 weeks but I’d had some wine and the already loose tape just came off in my sleep and I didn’t bother putting it back on. I really got a good look at the shape at this point even though there was tape over my nose that I was too scared to remove, I instantly loved it but it was still very swollen. There was random lumps and bumps everywhere when I touched it, and it was really sore but I tried not to panic too much and kept telling myself your not even a month post op yet stop over thinking it. I saw Peter and he took the remaining tape off my nose and said it looked like it was healing well, the inside of my nose was very very sore and full of bogies which was awful, the stitches were also slightly visible on one side but they take a few months to dissolve so I had to just wait for those to go once the inside healed. I’ve been for my final appointment today 10 weeks after surgery and it is still hard and stiff so got some more healing to do, there was a lump like a pea on one side that I was really worried about 4-8 weeks post op but it’s gone down dramatically in the last week and it’s barely visible now so you just need to give it plenty of time to heal. I’m over the moon with the finished look and would definitely recommend Peter.