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Please tell me if your nose gets smaller after weight loss surgery?

I know after the years of gaining wait I noticed my nose got bigger. Lol. Seriously, I do hope it shrinks a bit along with weight loss.

Anybody?

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@@James Marusek LOL! Good for you!

Yes your face will get smaller. See how big these glasses are on me now???LOL

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@bellabill I'm so glad you asked this question as my glasses are getting tighter on my face especially around my temples. I sure hope my nose and face get smaller!

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences. There's hope! Yeah!

There is definitely hope that our face will shrink and the better finer facial features will appear!

My head got smaller lol! My hats got big. Everything got smaller

I'm now that hateful size 9 1/2 size show. You know, the size no one carrys

When I lost my weight I noticed my eyes looked way bigger ( which is because my chubby cheeks were no longer squishing them) I also got a smaller pair of glasses and lost a full shoe size.It is also nice to have lost fat around my neck so I can wear cute necklaces again.

I haven't noticed a change in my nose specifically, but my face in general looks slimmer. Everything slims. I've had to take out links in my watch three times. I've gone from a 8.5/9 Wide shoe to 7.5 regular. Just Saturday I dropped off my wedding rings to get re-sized. I went from a 8.5 to a very comfortable 6! The jeweler said he'd even feel comfortable cutting them down to a 5.5, but they'd get a bit snug during crawfish season. :P

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I haven't noticed a change in my nose specifically, but my face in general looks slimmer. Everything slims. I've had to take out links in my watch three times. I've gone from a 8.5/9 Wide shoe to 7.5 regular. Just Saturday I dropped off my wedding rings to get re-sized. I went from a 8.5 to a very comfortable 6! The jeweler said he'd even feel comfortable cutting them down to a 5.5, but they'd get a bit snug during crawfish season. :P

That's awesome and this is what I am hoping for!!
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When I lost my weight I noticed my eyes looked way bigger ( which is because my chubby cheeks were no longer squishing them) I also got a smaller pair of glasses and lost a full shoe size.It is also nice to have lost fat around my neck so I can wear cute necklaces again.

That's great... Hopefully I will be right behind you!

I think with age your nose is more inclined to get bigger. My nose looks more defined with the weight loss but the size seems to have gotten longer/bigger? However, I am in that aging range.

Can't say I have noticed my nose looking any smaller.

hmmm... i still think my nose looks big. Look on my before and afters in my profile photo. I lost over 160#. My feet, wrists, ring size etc definately got smaller

What an interesting post! I never thought of toes and noses shrinking.

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2 things I know for sure:

- Our noses grow as we age

- Feet get wider the more we wall barefoot

That said, my own personal nose can't afford to get any bigger! It's always been big & bulbous. Now, it takes up 1/3 of my face (as I see it-though we don't always see ourselves the way others do). To me, it looks bigger because I'm far less 'cheeky' than I used to be so the overall face-width doesn't offset the wide bulbous nose. I wish there was a nose-band to get rid of it like the Realize band got rid of the other wide-spots around my bod.

My feet stayed the same size but the Mary Jane & stripy shoes no longer have foot-goo pushing up over the edges resulting in less indented red marks on my feet at the end of the day. Thankfully, I didn't have to buy wide but I was more comfy in wider shoes/boots like Uggs.

Another NSV was when I could see the defined tendons on the tops of my feet, and my ankle bones are well defined- & not just a skin-bump there anymore

Fingers & toes are slimmer & appear longer. I can see the tendons are defined and also there's a bone at the base of my hands, at the bottoms of my thumbs, that sticks out & my wrist bone pops way out too.

I've been shifting rings to bigger fingers - and they still spin around. When they start falling of my thumbs, I'll resize them. ha

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