Cosmetic surgery experience at GNG Hospital for African rhinoplasty and anti-aging procedures

[mysticalwoman]

Hi All

I decided to start a new thread for those that aren’t interested in the research part and just wanna jump right into the details. In my previous thread https://beautyhacker.com/forums/topic/1011618-cosmetic-surgery-researching-in-seoul-for-african-rhinoplasty-and-anti-aging-procedures/page-2#post-33167018 while I was researching I mentioned I choose to go with GNG Hospital for my procedures. I had 2 English translators assigned to me by the hospital and swapping when one isn’t available and when there were both available they both came together to a seamless handover so there was never a time I was relaying messages between them.

The surgery was scheduled for Saturday at GNG Hospital and I arrived and met with my English translator assigned by the hospital and shocking I later discovered she was there the entire time from 08:20am until my surgery was done which was around 18:00. She waited for me while I was in surgery and when I woke up she came in and together with the nurses we went into my room and she left when I was nicely tucked into bed which was around 20:00. A full the entire day she was only focusing on me. Oh wow I was really thankful.

I was kept at the hospital for 2 night and I have a story to tell about rhinoplasty. Let me not get carried away so let me be logical.

I arrived at 08:20am, checked in, got my weight taken, shown my recovery room and I was asked to wash my face and change into hospital wear. We then moved into meeting with both Dr Seong (rhinoplasty) and Dr Park (stem call fat graft and endotine brow/forehead lift) for final consultations and face drawings / marking.

I was told the order of the surgery will be 1) harvest fat first and it will go for preparation, 2) rhinoplasty, 3) endotine brow/forehead lift and 4) face fat graft. I had the fat taken from the back of my thigh under sedation. Guess what? ZERO bruising and minor pain on the thigh the fat was harvested from. WOW!! That’s the part I recall until I woke up at 18:00. For the rhinoplasty and endotine and fat graft was all under general anaesthesia.


Day 0 - Saturday immediately post-surgery:

I have had general anaesthesia 3 times before in my country and I experience zero side effects and I was pretty confident that I will be ok. Boy I was so wrong. I woke up I had blurry vision, I was dizzy and vomited pretty much all Saturday night and my head was throbbing from the pain from the surgeries. The night nurse came to check on me several times and she kept on giving me water and helping me with anything I needed. Man this is a night I honestly don’t wanna go back to. The night nurse really felt pity for me and I could see in her eyes that she was almost crying on my behalf. She was telling she had done the rhino herself and she understands what I am feeling right now. She sat with me for a few minutes in the room while I was feeling sorry for myself and she taught me some technique how to breathe through the mouth. I didn’t eat anything the whole day by the way and I wasn’t hungry. I was just in pain and unfortunately I had to let the anaesthesia wear off. The night came and light came and I didn’t even sleep.

Day 1: Sunday post op

This was the height of everything, pain, swelling, discomfort, sleep deprivation, you name it. The cotton nose stuffing was really getting to me mentally. There was a point I was going psycho on myself and asking myself why on earth I did this to myself. I couldn’t see how I was going to survive until 09am Monday to have the nose cotton stuffing taken out and I hadn’t slept for more than 24hrs. But I must admit the nurse really consoled me she told me she went on for 2 days straight without sleep and she knows how bad this is it. I’m lucky she could relate with me and gave me care. I didn’t want anything to eat I was asked to force feed myself so that I can get strength back. I choose to have pumpkin soup. I was not hungry at all and it was over 48hrs without food just water. My swelling was sooooo bad that my eye were pretty much shut and I had to walk with assistance. I was told to not look down and always keep my head up at most times as this will help a lot with the dizziness and pain. I did a few corridor walks to nothing helped I was just at the messy of Mother Nature, painkillers and antibiotics. The nurse promised me I will be the first person as soon as the treatment facilities open to be called to take the cotton nose stuffing out.


Day 2: Monday post op

The nurse delivered on her promise. By 10:00 I was on level 6 Treatment floor everyone ready to remove the cotton stuffing and at each and every step was explained to me. Yeah this part is the most uncomfortable part. But hey I will take the pain of taking the cotton nose stuffing out than the pain of having then in and not being able to breathe. I also saw the doctors and they did their checks and I discharged with a bunch of medication, goodie bag of pumpkin extracts and I was told to come daily for deswelling treatment and to come and see the doctor on Wed and Friday. Pretty much I will be seeing the doctor every 2nd day until I get to leave Korea.


Day 3: Tuesday post op

I arrived for my post op deswelling treatments and nose cleaning. Both the translators where there waiting for me. Remember I wasn’t supposed to see the doctor. I was sitting by the LED deswelling light and I saw this man in regular clothes walking to me and I realised it’s the doctor. He said its his day off today but he decided to pop by to check how I am doing and he checking the face for a few minutes and once he was done he walked out of the building. I was very impressed that on his day off he popped by to check on his patients. Nice after care indeed.

Let me not forget the care the translators have been giving me. When I got discharged they organised a taxi for me paid for by GNG and also said I must contact them directly should I need any assistance e.g. good ordering, food buying etc. They will do all that while I recover.

I will post again in about a 1 week once the face has settled where I can see my face properly. Right now im way too swollen to say anything about my results. But I can see my nose is definitely smaller than what it was before.

 

[mazikeen]

MysticalWoman said: ↑

Hi All

I decided to start a new thread for those that aren’t interested in the research part and just wanna jump right into the details. In my previous thread https://beautyhacker.com/forums/topic/1011618-cosmetic-surgery-researching-in-seoul-for-african-rhinoplasty-and-anti-aging-procedures/page-2#post-33167018 while I was researching I mentioned I choose to go with GNG Hospital for my procedures. I had 2 English translators assigned to me by the hospital and swapping when one isn’t available and when there were both available they both came together to a seamless handover so there was never a time I was relaying messages between them.

The surgery was scheduled for Saturday at GNG Hospital and I arrived and met with my English translator assigned by the hospital and shocking I later discovered she was there the entire time from 08:20am until my surgery was done which was around 18:00. She waited for me while I was in surgery and when I woke up she came in and together with the nurses we went into my room and she left when I was nicely tucked into bed which was around 20:00. A full the entire day she was only focusing on me. Oh wow I was really thankful.

I was kept at the hospital for 2 night and I have a story to tell about rhinoplasty. Let me not get carried away so let me be logical.

I arrived at 08:20am, checked in, got my weight taken, shown my recovery room and I was asked to wash my face and change into hospital wear. We then moved into meeting with both Dr Seong (rhinoplasty) and Dr Park (stem call fat graft and endotine brow/forehead lift) for final consultations and face drawings / marking.

I was told the order of the surgery will be 1) harvest fat first and it will go for preparation, 2) rhinoplasty, 3) endotine brow/forehead lift and 4) face fat graft. I had the fat taken from the back of my thigh under sedation. Guess what? ZERO bruising and minor pain on the thigh the fat was harvested from. WOW!! That’s the part I recall until I woke up at 18:00. For the rhinoplasty and endotine and fat graft was all under general anaesthesia.


Day 0 - Saturday immediately post-surgery:

I have had general anaesthesia 3 times before in my country and I experience zero side effects and I was pretty confident that I will be ok. Boy I was so wrong. I woke up I had blurry vision, I was dizzy and vomited pretty much all Saturday night and my head was throbbing from the pain from the surgeries. The night nurse came to check on me several times and she kept on giving me water and helping me with anything I needed. Man this is a night I honestly don’t wanna go back to. The night nurse really felt pity for me and I could see in her eyes that she was almost crying on my behalf. She was telling she had done the rhino herself and she understands what I am feeling right now. She sat with me for a few minutes in the room while I was feeling sorry for myself and she taught me some technique how to breathe through the mouth. I didn’t eat anything the whole day by the way and I wasn’t hungry. I was just in pain and unfortunately I had to let the anaesthesia wear off. The night came and light came and I didn’t even sleep.

Day 1: Sunday post op

This was the height of everything, pain, swelling, discomfort, sleep deprivation, you name it. The cotton nose stuffing was really getting to me mentally. There was a point I was going psycho on myself and asking myself why on earth I did this to myself. I couldn’t see how I was going to survive until 09am Monday to have the nose cotton stuffing taken out and I hadn’t slept for more than 24hrs. But I must admit the nurse really consoled me she told me she went on for 2 days straight without sleep and she knows how bad this is it. I’m lucky she could relate with me and gave me care. I didn’t want anything to eat I was asked to force feed myself so that I can get strength back. I choose to have pumpkin soup. I was not hungry at all and it was over 48hrs without food just water. My swelling was sooooo bad that my eye were pretty much shut and I had to walk with assistance. I was told to not look down and always keep my head up at most times as this will help a lot with the dizziness and pain. I did a few corridor walks to nothing helped I was just at the messy of Mother Nature, painkillers and antibiotics. The nurse promised me I will be the first person as soon as the treatment facilities open to be called to take the cotton nose stuffing out.


Day 2: Monday post op

The nurse delivered on her promise. By 10:00 I was on level 6 Treatment floor everyone ready to remove the cotton stuffing and at each and every step was explained to me. Yeah this part is the most uncomfortable part. But hey I will take the pain of taking the cotton nose stuffing out than the pain of having then in and not being able to breathe. I also saw the doctors and they did their checks and I discharged with a bunch of medication, goodie bag of pumpkin extracts and I was told to come daily for deswelling treatment and to come and see the doctor on Wed and Friday. Pretty much I will be seeing the doctor every 2nd day until I get to leave Korea.


Day 3: Tuesday post op

I arrived for my post op deswelling treatments and nose cleaning. Both the translators where there waiting for me. Remember I wasn’t supposed to see the doctor. I was sitting by the LED deswelling light and I saw this man in regular clothes walking to me and I realised it’s the doctor. He said its his day off today but he decided to pop by to check how I am doing and he checking the face for a few minutes and once he was done he walked out of the building. I was very impressed that on his day off he popped by to check on his patients. Nice after care indeed.

Let me not forget the care the translators have been giving me. When I got discharged they organised a taxi for me paid for by GNG and also said I must contact them directly should I need any assistance e.g. good ordering, food buying etc. They will do all that while I recover.

I will post again in about a 1 week once the face has settled where I can see my face properly. Right now im way too swollen to say anything about my results. But I can see my nose is definitely smaller than what it was before.

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Sending you +++ve vibes. I think the GA they used was different to what you are used to, hence the nausea. Keep putting ice packs on your nose as often as possible, really helps with the swelling. Pumpkin juice also helps with the swelling.

 

[mysticalwoman]

Mazikeen said: ↑

Sending you +++ve vibes. I think the GA they used was different to what you are used to, hence the nausea. Keep putting ice packs on your nose as often as possible, really helps with the swelling. Pumpkin juice also helps with the swelling.

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Thanks hey

 

[surgerygalore]

Wishing you a speedy recovery. GNG looks good too

 

[ginochon]

Great to hear that you had a good experience at GNG! Should check them out

 

[mysticalwoman]

MysticalWoman said: ↑

Hi All

I decided to start a new thread for those that aren’t interested in the research part and just wanna jump right into the details. In my previous thread https://beautyhacker.com/forums/topic/1011618-cosmetic-surgery-researching-in-seoul-for-african-rhinoplasty-and-anti-aging-procedures/page-2#post-33167018 while I was researching I mentioned I choose to go with GNG Hospital for my procedures. I had 2 English translators assigned to me by the hospital and swapping when one isn’t available and when there were both available they both came together to a seamless handover so there was never a time I was relaying messages between them.

The surgery was scheduled for Saturday at GNG Hospital and I arrived and met with my English translator assigned by the hospital and shocking I later discovered she was there the entire time from 08:20am until my surgery was done which was around 18:00. She waited for me while I was in surgery and when I woke up she came in and together with the nurses we went into my room and she left when I was nicely tucked into bed which was around 20:00. A full the entire day she was only focusing on me. Oh wow I was really thankful.

I was kept at the hospital for 2 night and I have a story to tell about rhinoplasty. Let me not get carried away so let me be logical.

I arrived at 08:20am, checked in, got my weight taken, shown my recovery room and I was asked to wash my face and change into hospital wear. We then moved into meeting with both Dr Seong (rhinoplasty) and Dr Park (stem call fat graft and endotine brow/forehead lift) for final consultations and face drawings / marking.

I was told the order of the surgery will be 1) harvest fat first and it will go for preparation, 2) rhinoplasty, 3) endotine brow/forehead lift and 4) face fat graft. I had the fat taken from the back of my thigh under sedation. Guess what? ZERO bruising and minor pain on the thigh the fat was harvested from. WOW!! That’s the part I recall until I woke up at 18:00. For the rhinoplasty and endotine and fat graft was all under general anaesthesia.


Day 0 - Saturday immediately post-surgery:

I have had general anaesthesia 3 times before in my country and I experience zero side effects and I was pretty confident that I will be ok. Boy I was so wrong. I woke up I had blurry vision, I was dizzy and vomited pretty much all Saturday night and my head was throbbing from the pain from the surgeries. The night nurse came to check on me several times and she kept on giving me water and helping me with anything I needed. Man this is a night I honestly don’t wanna go back to. The night nurse really felt pity for me and I could see in her eyes that she was almost crying on my behalf. She was telling she had done the rhino herself and she understands what I am feeling right now. She sat with me for a few minutes in the room while I was feeling sorry for myself and she taught me some technique how to breathe through the mouth. I didn’t eat anything the whole day by the way and I wasn’t hungry. I was just in pain and unfortunately I had to let the anaesthesia wear off. The night came and light came and I didn’t even sleep.

Day 1: Sunday post op

This was the height of everything, pain, swelling, discomfort, sleep deprivation, you name it. The cotton nose stuffing was really getting to me mentally. There was a point I was going psycho on myself and asking myself why on earth I did this to myself. I couldn’t see how I was going to survive until 09am Monday to have the nose cotton stuffing taken out and I hadn’t slept for more than 24hrs. But I must admit the nurse really consoled me she told me she went on for 2 days straight without sleep and she knows how bad this is it. I’m lucky she could relate with me and gave me care. I didn’t want anything to eat I was asked to force feed myself so that I can get strength back. I choose to have pumpkin soup. I was not hungry at all and it was over 48hrs without food just water. My swelling was sooooo bad that my eye were pretty much shut and I had to walk with assistance. I was told to not look down and always keep my head up at most times as this will help a lot with the dizziness and pain. I did a few corridor walks to nothing helped I was just at the messy of Mother Nature, painkillers and antibiotics. The nurse promised me I will be the first person as soon as the treatment facilities open to be called to take the cotton nose stuffing out.


Day 2: Monday post op

The nurse delivered on her promise. By 10:00 I was on level 6 Treatment floor everyone ready to remove the cotton stuffing and at each and every step was explained to me. Yeah this part is the most uncomfortable part. But hey I will take the pain of taking the cotton nose stuffing out than the pain of having then in and not being able to breathe. I also saw the doctors and they did their checks and I discharged with a bunch of medication, goodie bag of pumpkin extracts and I was told to come daily for deswelling treatment and to come and see the doctor on Wed and Friday. Pretty much I will be seeing the doctor every 2nd day until I get to leave Korea.


Day 3: Tuesday post op

I arrived for my post op deswelling treatments and nose cleaning. Both the translators where there waiting for me. Remember I wasn’t supposed to see the doctor. I was sitting by the LED deswelling light and I saw this man in regular clothes walking to me and I realised it’s the doctor. He said its his day off today but he decided to pop by to check how I am doing and he checking the face for a few minutes and once he was done he walked out of the building. I was very impressed that on his day off he popped by to check on his patients. Nice after care indeed.

Let me not forget the care the translators have been giving me. When I got discharged they organised a taxi for me paid for by GNG and also said I must contact them directly should I need any assistance e.g. good ordering, food buying etc. They will do all that while I recover.

I will post again in about a 1 week once the face has settled where I can see my face properly. Right now im way too swollen to say anything about my results. But I can see my nose is definitely smaller than what it was before.

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15 days post op update with before and after pics

It’s been 15 days since my surgery. It’s been a rough ride when it comes to recovery. Like I said the first 3 days are horrific and the following 4 days leading completing a 7 days period are bearable. At the moment I’m recovering well and just the stiff nose thing I’m experiencing which it will resolve itself with time as its part of nose recovery.

Before the surgery I had small nasal passages but with perfect nasal structures ie no deviated septum, no abnormalities…..HOWEVER I had a big and wide nose outside while inside my nose, my passages where tiny. The doctor said looking at my internal nose 3D scan if he shrunk the nose outside anaesthetically then due to my internal small nasal passages I will be risking having breathing problems post the anaesthetic surgery. Because GNG specialises in both ENT functional and anaesthetic surgeries we (me and Dr Seong) decided it’s best to perform 3 functional surgeries in addition to the anaesthetic surgery. Post performing my functional surgeries when I take a deep breath I can actually feel the air hit the back of my throat and this is something I have never ever felt before ie pre-functional surgeries and imagine I’m only 15 days post op and my nose is still swollen both externally and internally.

I am VERY happy with my results both functional and anaesthetic surgeries. To be honest when the cast was taken off I was like “WHAT” (happy shock). I didn’t expect to see what I saw. I had really wide nasal bones and really thick skin, I mean the way my skin is so thick the doctor thought I had done fillers and I have never did. I provided the doctor with a wish pic and he said he is going to apply the face golden ratio + copy the shape of the wish pic + customise the shape to suit my face + paste. Basically he wasn’t just going to copy and paste. He copied, customised to suit my face and pasted J…Right now when I meet friends and family they say my face looks slim and ask if I have lost weight and ask if I have lost weight lol. Some even said there is something about me that is glowing and I have a “fresh and energised look” – these are the exact words that were said to me by friends and family, so that how fitting my nose it to my face.

I wanted to thank GNG for everything and they made my surgeries worth it despite the pain which they cant do anything about it lol except support me emotionally and give me medication lol:

The staff: they were amazing and took care of me with everything I needed.

Dr Seong: He performed my nose surgeries both functional and anaesthetic surgeries

Dr Park: He performed the under eye and nasolabial folds stem cell fat graft and endotine forehead lift

Jay: The GNG translator, he was so helpful in concierge services like where to eat, how to get around in Kr, ordering food while in hotel recovery etc.

Hailey: GNG English consultant, she was so helpful in being the interlock between me and the hospital with regards to post care services and talking to doctors.

Seul-Ha: GNG Korean consultant – I call her Barbie doll J. She is soooo cute and extremely nice….


Oh I saw the both my doctors every 2-3 days post op until I left Kr and I received de-swelling treatment every day post surgeries and Vitamin IVs to boost recovery.

 

[mazikeen]

MysticalWoman said: ↑

15 days post op update with before and after pics

It’s been 15 days since my surgery. It’s been a rough ride when it comes to recovery. Like I said the first 3 days are horrific and the following 4 days leading completing a 7 days period are bearable. At the moment I’m recovering well and just the stiff nose thing I’m experiencing which it will resolve itself with time as its part of nose recovery.

Before the surgery I had small nasal passages but with perfect nasal structures ie no deviated septum, no abnormalities…..HOWEVER I had a big and wide nose outside while inside my nose, my passages where tiny. The doctor said looking at my internal nose 3D scan if he shrunk the nose outside anaesthetically then due to my internal small nasal passages I will be risking having breathing problems post the anaesthetic surgery. Because GNG specialises in both ENT functional and anaesthetic surgeries we (me and Dr Seong) decided it’s best to perform 3 functional surgeries in addition to the anaesthetic surgery. Post performing my functional surgeries when I take a deep breath I can actually feel the air hit the back of my throat and this is something I have never ever felt before ie pre-functional surgeries and imagine I’m only 15 days post op and my nose is still swollen both externally and internally.

I am VERY happy with my results both functional and anaesthetic surgeries. To be honest when the cast was taken off I was like “WHAT” (happy shock). I didn’t expect to see what I saw. I had really wide nasal bones and really thick skin, I mean the way my skin is so thick the doctor thought I had done fillers and I have never did. I provided the doctor with a wish pic and he said he is going to apply the face golden ratio + copy the shape of the wish pic + customise the shape to suit my face + paste. Basically he wasn’t just going to copy and paste. He copied, customised to suit my face and pasted J…Right now when I meet friends and family they say my face looks slim and ask if I have lost weight and ask if I have lost weight lol. Some even said there is something about me that is glowing and I have a “fresh and energised look” – these are the exact words that were said to me by friends and family, so that how fitting my nose it to my face.

I wanted to thank GNG for everything and they made my surgeries worth it despite the pain which they cant do anything about it lol except support me emotionally and give me medication lol:

The staff: they were amazing and took care of me with everything I needed.

Dr Seong: He performed my nose surgeries both functional and anaesthetic surgeries

Dr Park: He performed the under eye and nasolabial folds stem cell fat graft and endotine forehead lift

Jay: The GNG translator, he was so helpful in concierge services like where to eat, how to get around in Kr, ordering food while in hotel recovery etc.

Hailey: GNG English consultant, she was so helpful in being the interlock between me and the hospital with regards to post care services and talking to doctors.

Seul-Ha: GNG Korean consultant – I call her Barbie doll J. She is soooo cute and extremely nice….


Oh I saw the both my doctors every 2-3 days post op until I left Kr and I received de-swelling treatment every day post surgeries and Vitamin IVs to boost recovery.

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Love the results. Very natural. Did the endoscopic lift improve your brow area?

 

[mysticalwoman]

Mazikeen said: ↑

Love the results. Very natural. Did the endoscopic lift improve your brow area?

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Thanks hey. Oh the endotine forehead lift made my eyes so beautifully open and removing that "tired" look and removed the droopiness and i LOVE the results!! Im getting comments like "You look so fresh"....."You look so happy and your face has life"......"What facials are you doing?" hahaha the facials comments made me laugh....

 

[mysticalwoman]

Endotine effect on my eyes

 

[rainbowdash15]

MysticalWoman said: ↑

Thanks hey. Oh the endotine forehead lift made my eyes so beautifully open and removing that "tired" look and removed the droopiness and i LOVE the results!! Im getting comments like "You look so fresh"....."You look so happy and your face has life"......"What facials are you doing?" hahaha the facials comments made me laugh....

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Where are the incision for your endotine forehead lift?

 

[felina_cerine]

Thank you for this review....my nose similar to yours with even wider alar, now I feel there is hope

 

[mysticalwoman]

RainbowDash15 said: ↑

Where are the incision for your endotine forehead lift?

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Behind the hairline where no one sees it. Yesterday I looked to see how the healing is going on the incision. I noticed a very thin line where the incision was made behind the hair line. Note the doctor used staples and not stitches so that I don’t have bad scaring hence it’s a neat very thin line kind of a thing at the moment. Apparently that line will go away with time. Im only day 18 post op at the moment. Healing process is still underway.

 

[mysticalwoman]

Felina_cerine said: ↑

Thank you for this review....my nose similar to yours with even wider alar, now I feel there is hope

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All the best with your surgery. May you find the best doctor to deliver the results you want.

 

[mazikeen]

MysticalWoman said: ↑

Endotine effect on my eyes

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TY so much for the updates. Amazing results and so natural. Will definitely be considering gng in the future. How long do the endotine results last?

 

[mysticalwoman]

Mazikeen said: ↑

TY so much for the updates. Amazing results and so natural. Will definitely be considering gng in the future. How long do the endotine results last?

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7-10years. Range is dependent on lifestyle and genetics of ageing. Lifestyle being bad eater, smoker, drinker, soo much sun bathing, lack of exercises, bad lifestyle habits that speed up ageing process. Genetics = dome people age quicker than others.