I am dealing with sinus passages that get filled with mucus and then
completely close.  This gives me various other physical problems.  I
was constantly dealing with chronic drowsiness, fatigue, sinus
infections, and lack of cognitive acuity.  I have been punished in
school, cracked up a car, and have been fired from jobs.  When a sinus
passages closes either just before I go to sleep or while I am
sleeping, I have apnea conditions.  This means that I do not get a
good nights sleep.  If I do not sleep, my body does not produce
adequate amounts of cortisone which means that my body cannot fight
infections.  I was waking with one nasal passage completely closed and
I always woke up feeling terrible.  The other body stress is that I
have diabetes.  I think the onset came from eating high amounts of
sugar when I used sugar as a"jump start" type of  drug which would
cause the adrenaline to kick in and give me energy.  I also used
caffine products to achieve this affect.
As of around the beginning of the year, I treated my nasal passages
more aggressively.  I use both Afrin and Ipratropium Bromide to open
my nasal passage.  The Ipratropium Bromide is a drug for COPD and
Asthma but is a drying agent that works in drying out my sinus
passages.    I frequently use a lavage to wash out my sinuses.  I also
use a nasal steroid to keep away any inflammation.  The mucus then
drains and clears out so that I can breathe.  I am feeling good for a
change.  No more anxiety attacks in the middle of the day.  I also had
the flu and it did not turn into an upper respiratory infection