Question: As I indicated before in the previous posts , I was operated on of my Rhinoplasty surgery October the 24th . The operation came out nicely, with local anesthesia with local sedation. It lasted 3 hours 20 minutes. 70 stitches where placed in my nose, which the Dr said some would came out, others would be absorbed by the body, as they are made of intestinal parts of I don’t know which animal.

Before the operation they gave an injection of methyl prednisolone 40 mg.



After my operation I am takinkg Cefuroxime axetil 1 tablet every 12 hours.

Claritin every 12 hours.

Loxomac 1 pill every 12 hours.

and several nose sprays :oxymetazoline 1 spray every 4 hours.

saline solutinon every 4 hours

Rhinocort Aqua spray every 12 hours (budesonide



Right now the nose looks fine, just one side a bit inflamed, in its left side. The Dr just wanted to get rid of a hump I had and reduced the tip of the nose which looked falling down, for which he altered the nose, reduced , he did mention he used some kind of transplant to make the foundation of the new nose, probably at the bottom of the tip.



The problems are as followed

!) The left side is inflamed, I don’t know if it is really inflamed or he only fixed the hump, and did nothing with the base, if it’s inflamed, it’s because he did work with it.

2) At the very entrance of my noise where the transplant was made the septum is very much gone to left side , the entrance of that side of the nose is partially closed and it feels like a gate left open to that said ( nasal septum )

The purpose of the operation was to fix a deviated septum and bulky nose, and fallen, swollen turbinates.

Also the give it a more aesthetical finished.

Well the deviated septum is deviated to the entrance, to the left, not like before in the middle.

The Dr told me that it was maybe cause by inflammation and prescribed Dazen ( Danzen ) Serratiopeptidase 10 mg every 12 hours.

I am also using now, Afrin nasal pure sea spray to clean and avoid dryness of the nasal passage.

I am not using the Rhinocort Aqua spray.

I have had several Drs Visits where he has clean the operation out of wounds, falling stitches.

I did blow my nose lightly at the beginning with no bleeding, I did only had some bleeding the first 2 days, then gone. No pain, just a dripping nose, and a cold like feeling.

After the Dr told me to return to him after 14 days, for check up, I came back, 3 days after the 14day appointment that’s when he prescribed Danzen . Thant’s when the problem started, then came back on the 20th day because the problem worsen, and he prescribed Calcort 2 30 mg pills 4 days in a row, and came back on the 5th day. I only tool one pill of 30 mg, and I got swollen, and look kind of pale. Please look at my case history, and medicine taken and my VIH condition. I decided to stop the Calcort, which did gave me diminished inflation of the overall nose , a tiny improvement of the deviated septum. At the time I took Calcort (DFZ in India) , I was still on Danzen (Serratiopeptidase), drug interaction ?

I am applying now topical Rhinocort aqua exactly and the beginning of my nasal passage, right where the deviated septum is.

The Dr told me that the most difficult plastic surgery is the Rhinoplasty with great recurrence of second touch ups. He also mentioned that any repair could only be done after 3 months of healing .

My main concern is the use of Calcort ( deflazacort )DFZ in India, to avoid inflamation, because of my swolleen face, and my vih condition is it damagin my inmune system in that dosage and period of time taken it .

I did stop taking it, since the swollen reduced by 50 % in one day, maybe a dosage of 15 mg could be the dosage? I did not have any truble withmethyl prednisolone 40 mg., Havent had any infections.



.If it wasnt because the deviated septum at the begining of the right nose, partially blocking the opening of my right noserill it everything would be fine.The deviated septum was not iniatially there it was at te midle of the nose.This new deviation comes at the begininig of the nose where he reconstructed the tip on the nose, and did some grafting ( trnasplants of my own tissue) on the root of the tip of my noice.

Please advice on the that as my inmune system should stay healty to fight the VIH infecttion.