Major nose surgery, slow healing, and peptide curiosity

2026-10-06 14:47

I’m 11 days out from a bigger septorhinoplasty than I expected, and my face is still swollen enough that I’m living in ice packs. My surgeon likes how things look structurally, but I’m a notoriously slow healer — bruises linger, incisions get grumpy.

I’m still on my GLP-1 and appetite is quiet, so protein and fluids have been my main job. Small win: I hit 85g protein two days in a row without forcing shakes.

The peptide chatter keeps popping into my feed and I get why, but I don’t want to mess with recovery while my nose is literally rebuilding. Has anyone asked their surgical team about peptides for healing, or did you stick with sleep, protein, and gentle movement?

I’m not looking for dosing — just want to know how you kept patience when your body took the scenic route.

2026-10-09 21:49

day 11 is peak “why do I look like a potato” time, honestly. I had a different surgery and was also a slow healer — bruises stuck around for weeks.

What saved me was making protein and fluids stupidly easy: premade shakes in the fridge, a giant water bottle with time markings, and cottage cheese cups I could eat without thinking. Are you logging anything, or just doing the “sip and pray” method?

Also, the quiet appetite from my meds made solids rough post-op, so I leaned hard on cold liquids. The fact your surgeon likes the structure is huge. Hang in there.

2026-10-11 22:54

I’m a numbers person too — after my last procedure I made a dorky spreadsheet: protein grams, fluid oz, hours slept, and a 1–10 puffiness score each morning. It didn’t speed anything up, but it stopped me from panic-ordering stuff at 2am.

I also went down a peptide rabbit hole and spent a week comparing stock/shipping/cost, then closed the tabs.

The volatility alone was a red flag for me. Are you getting protein mostly via shakes or actual food? Savory warm stuff went down way easier than cold shakes for me.

And are you sleeping propped up? That seemed to matter more than anything I almost bought.

2026-10-16 14:08

i’m a slow healer too, and the thing that surprised me post-op was how much my morning puffiness tracked with sleep angle and sodium, not just protein. I kept a dumb note: wedge pillow + low-salt dinner = way less potato-face at 7 a.m.; flat-ish sleep + takeout = rough.

In the trials I’ve read, protein gets the spotlight, but sleep and hydration consistency seem underrated for general recovery. Are you still sleeping elevated, or have you been able to side-sleep yet?

That was the one variable I could actually control when everything else felt random.

2026-10-19 09:31

Okay but the dorm protein struggle is real. When I couldn’t chew after a mouth thing, I lived on dining-hall Greek yogurt + a scoop of peanut butter powder swiped from the cereal bar, thinned with milk ino drinkable sludge.

Also: ask the dining hall for plain scrambled eggs and mash them into broth — looks like regret, tastes fine.

Random q: are you sleeping with your head elevated? My swelling finally started moving when I stacked two pillows and did short laps instead of just icing. And if your incisions are grumpy, is your dorm air aggressively dry?

A cheap humidifier helped my nose stop feeling like a desert. Hang in there, thumb-face era ends.