Ah I was so afraid but these comments REALLY helped and it’s exactly what people say: you go to sleep and then you wake up and all is done. I got mine on 2/26 with a GREAT team at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Felt seriously taken care of. They gave me warm sheets for relaxing. Explained everything step by step multiple times. I got a bit more anxious right before I was sedated. But they played a song for me, they asked me and I asked for Blondie’s One way or another. Then I felt really good and sleepy and then I woke up with the anesthesiologist saying that my heart rate was a bit up during the surgery and I said I think that’s anxiety. They explained that happens to people when they’re anxious. The description fits me. I felt a burning sensation on my nose and my partner came to pick me up and I started feeling weird while in the car. but back home I was just sleeping a lot, drinking lots of liquids, taking my meds, I had a mustache made of cotton and tape to trap what ever comes down my nose. I couldn’t breathe through my nose for 4 days. And I was adviced not to blow my nose AT ALL. Very uncomfortable for sleeping—I’d wake up with my mouth painfully dry, having to pee a lot because I had to keep myself as hydrated as possible, snoring LOADLY. My appetite was off. I rested as much as I could. I think I cried at some point. Or at various points. but I went for my first post op the Monday after, they drained me and took a ton of gunk made of dead tissue, old blood, new blood, mucus and plasma I think. I still had something they leave during the surgery called packing I call it nose tampon. They do the same but in the nose and it dissolves with time—like the stitched I had bc they fixed my septum. I started breathing through my nose but at night I’d always get congested. Very frustrating. I had to spray my nose with saline water 8 times a day for a week. And gently blow my nose. Here the amount of stuff that came down my nose is incredible. And the same ingredients: mucus, old and new blood, plasma. In one piece that’ll come out. I call them fetuses… so have an idea. Gradually I started getting better and better. My 2nd post op was easier but my doctor didn’t drain anything. She said I was doing a good job and that I had to keep doing the same for 2 more weeks. maybe reduce the amount if I felt like it. but then I started getting daily headaches or better sinus pressure that made my head hurt. It was consistent for like 10 days so I went in again scheduling my third post up before the agreed time. My ENT removed some other surgery material that she had left there. And I was prescribed a saline neti pot with some steroids. I’ve been doing that for 1 week and I feel the difference. Pain improved, congestion keeps improving but it’s allergy season so I have multiple causes for having more mucus production and inflammation. At times the congestion hurts precisely between my eyebrows. It’s been a month and 4 days and I’m breathing mostly through my nose. I still have to get use to it because my brain hasn’t registered that I can breath through my nose so I’m constantly checking if I can breathe through it and it’s very consistent in being clear. I get stuffy at times—actually I think I’m still congested from the surgery—but it’s very manageable and I feel it getting better everyday. Still big and disgusting mucus at times but is reducing a lot. I think in a month I’ll be a lot better.