About a week and a half ago I did a face plant on a marble table. Lots of bleeding and gave my self two black eyes to boot.
The black eyes are gone now. My nose doesn’t look with shapen. And no bleeding.
Basically I have none of the symptoms Google tells me I should look for.
But still there’s this bump on my nose now. Can’t really see it but I can feel it. It’s slightly tender. Basically a mild annoyance when I put my glasses on.
I imagine that tenderness will eventually go away. But I’m just wondering did I break my nose?
When people talked colloquially about a ‘broken nose’ what they really meant is separation of the septal cartilage from the nasal (or lattice) bone. No osseous tissue is actually fractured, and in a healthy person the cartilage will reattach in a few days but unless it has been set and braced properly it will likely be misaligned and likely prone to separating again. The description you give certainly sounds like a ‘broken’ nose, and the bump may reduce further as swelling goes down but is likely to persist unless you get surgery to separate and reset the nose properly.
