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Nose got bigger overnight

Hello

Yesterday at work I was daydreaming while working and someone walked behind me, for some reason I felt a lot of anger and hatred towards this person and also a sense of superiority in my mind for reasons I'm not going to go into, when this happened my facial muscles tensed up and as I was bending down to pick a box up off the floor my nose suddenly felt really blocked and weird.

Today I woke up and looked in the mirror and my nose is bigger and wider on one side and also a little painful, my face now looks assymetrical more than it did before, can negative emotions in your mind cause your nose to change shape sort of like how stress does, is it possible that a bone in my nose has some out place due to this stress?
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Hi can someone help?
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Hello and hope you are doing well.

It’s unlikely that any stress or negative emotions can causes changes to the size of the nose. It's most probably a pimple. You could apply warm compress and for pain relief you can use OTC Tylenol (acetaminophen). The other causes could be due to fungal or other bacterial infections. You may need to consult your primary care physician who will examine you and initiate appropriate therapy.

Hope this helped and do keep us posted.
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