A few years ago I was playing rugby and
managed to get hit in the face by another
player shin. My nose was incredibly sore
afterwards but my coach assured me it
wasn't broken. After swelling up a bit, a
few days after I noticed a rather
prominent bump in my nasal bone. Ever
since I've had problems with my breathing
and occasionally I would get a small
whistling sound when I breathed in, which
was rather embarrassing at times.
I've recently started learning to drive
and wear glasses, but since my nose is
sensitive now I can wear them for no
longer than 10 minutes before they become
discomforting. What can the NHS do for me,
if anything, to relieve some of the
discomfort? Is this sort of thing covered
by the NHS? Or will it require plastic
surgery to correct and cost money?
Thanks in advance
-Craig
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Jules
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Posted: 05-22-08 13:50pm
Hello!
I would have thought the NHS would cover
you for any corrective surgery to your
nose because it would not be for purely
cosmetic reasons. Your best bet is to
make an appointment with your GP and
explain your problems.
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Jules
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Posted: 05-22-08 13:56pm
By the way, I'm assuming you are a British
citizen. I'm confused because a previous
post of yours talks about health insurance
and dollars...
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tommr
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Posted: 05-22-08 14:23pm
Thank you for your speedy reply and I'll
be contacting my GP tomorrow to arrange an
appointment =). Hopefully it will all
checkout. What sort of things can they do
to correct the bump? Do they simply
re-break it and set it correctly?
P.S. Yeah sorry about that, I'm actually
using a bugmenot account to post this
thread since I needed a quick answer.
Sorry for the confusion.
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Jules
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Posted: 05-22-08 15:13pm
tommr
wrote:
Thank you for your speedy
reply and I'll be contacting my GP
tomorrow to arrange an appointment =).
Hopefully it will all checkout. What sort
of things can they do to correct the bump?
Do they simply re-break it and set it
correctly?
P.S. Yeah sorry about that, I'm actually
using a bugmenot account to post this
thread since I needed a quick answer.
Sorry for the
confusion.
I just googled bugmenot, very interesting
lol!
As for what they'll do to correct your
nose, I'm not sure to be honest. Your GP
will have the answers.
Great idea thanks. Just ried it out now
but can't seem to find any mention of
broken noses =|. Only thing that mentioned
it was rhinoplasty, which is a bit OTT in
my case to be honest haha. I was hoping
they'd have a section on nose resetting
but oh well, guess I'll just have to wait
until my appointment with the GP.
I've been googling around and al lot of
forums seem to suggest that they were
rarely do anything about it if the nose
has healed for more than 2 weeks, which in
my case of nearly 5 years isn't helpful!
My father seems to think that they simply
put you under local anasetetic and
manually break the bone using a blunt
instructment like a mallet, which doesn't
sound at all comforting... I'd hedge my
bets on whether they actually perform such
procedures though. I think I'd rather be
totally knocked out than faint haha!
