A nasty fall left me with a terrible snoring problem

The mother-of-one was walking up steps over a railway line in Edinburgh in March when her accident happened.

“I literally landed flat on my face and everyone could hear the crunch in my nose,” she said.

She had “zero chance” to get her hands out of her pockets in time to break her fall.

“Blood was gushing out of my nose, not my nostrils but from the bridge of my nose,” she said.

The next day Debbie, the director of a PR company, woke with a very swollen face.

When the bruising got worse she was advised to go to hospital where medics told her she had damaged the cartilage in her nose and fractured her cheek bone.

“I explored private options knowing how busy the NHS is but the price quoted was beyond my financial capabilities,” she said.

Now she is waiting for a NHS referral to have a septoplasty – a procedure to reshape the septum by adding or removing bone and cartilage.

“My nose feels blocked all the time now and it’s hard to blow my nose,” Debbie said.

“It needs a procedure called septoplasty because it just doesn’t feel right and that’s why I’m snoring.

“My snoring has also been getting worse as the weeks go on since my accident.”