Yesterday marked the end of my round of antibiotics, day 10. Today, I
experienced the same color of 'mucus production' in my left sinus,
yellow-opaque in color. Upon reading the posts in here, I'm realizing
that this THING may be indeed chronic w/o any end in sight. However, my
energy level HAD (past tense?) improved, SOME taste came back, if ever
intermittent. Conclusion? Not much hope for any recovery except for the
nasal irrigation. Yesterday found me getting a
brand new box of bicarb soda, salt minus
iodine, and h. peroxide. I made a batch of the dry goods in a hard
plastic container,
washed it well with water and bleach, dried it with a paper towel. I had
been using my 'old' b. soda,'old' in the shelf
god knows how old, peroxide, figuring (?)
if it kills bacteria it may not have a shelf
life. Frustrated and overwhelmed with other problems, took the least
lines of resistance in that area previously. Against the nurs. prac's
advice, I opted to use
perioxide only, minimally about a half
a teaspoon's worth per 4 oz, and gave
myself 2 doses of this amt. in the handy
bottle I figured would work just fine. No regrets on the minimal dose I
self prescribed via h. peroxide. No severe burning, just a whoah, sorta
feeling and
a need to put a cold washcloth on my external nose to have a bit of
cooling effect, but other than about a minute of
that, I was fine. Now, since the infection is on the left maxillary
side, I pose this
question... my stategy is one of, bending over the bathroom sink, face
down, most
always, or to the 'side' never exacting a
method til I read of another's dilemma
over how to drain the left maxillery side,
if at all possible, so that got me thinking
and perhaps DR. Grossan can advise?
I started after the initial flow of the
bottle was done, then turned my head to the RIGHT, thinking it would
then flow
to the LEFT somehow irrigated the maxillary area, I hope to God, and
HELP
this annoying misery in some geographic
way. During this miserable mundane ordeal, I wondered, is there such a
thing
too, as aspiration of infection in a delicate
manner, that would END this, over the invasiveness of surgery, dispite
laproscopic technic? Given the things we have now, visually and so much
that would visualize surgery to a factor of eliminating the INFECTION
and drain it minus cutting and recovery as it all seems so simple in my
theory of thought, over any cuttage of tissue on / in the face.
My dread, is that once the antibiotics now
consumed are worn "off" that this thing will return in the same misery
that it originated with. However, I plan to irrigate
well, about 3 x's daily, and keep on top of it as best I can, and hope
that I do not have to go return for a cat scan of my sinus area.. or
have a test to determine the strain of infection that plagues me. It
does feel 'still there' I can tell. Taste is
still obliterated; smell is nil,or maybe about oh... 15% or so, tops. So
thats telling. I'd give anything, to 'smell the roses' in more than one.
To be denied such a simple joy, we had (yeah had..) taken for granted is
surely something I
won't believe I 'd do again. Dara