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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Sinusitis / June 2005Repeated Sinus Infections - Please Help
I've had a history of sinus infections every 1 - 2 months since December 2000. Coughing from the infection caused me to crack 4 ribs. Infections reoccurred in March and August of 2001 when I put in the hospital because of the infection. In 2001 I had a septoplasty, polyps removed and various other sinus related procedures done. In 2002 I also started allegy shots, but they did not seem to do very much. In 2003, I had a Caldwell-Luc done and multiple polyps removed. After this surgery, I had the CT scans looked at by a second ENT and they felt that everything has been done that they can do to open things up in my sinuses. A recent CT scan showed that surprise....I have a sinus infection! As far as medicines go, I have been on Zyrtec, Zyrtec-D, Allegra, Allegra-D, Claritin D, Flonase, Nasacort and others. The latest allergist I've seen feels that most of my problems are from non-allergic rhinitis with some allergic rhinitis issues and gave me a prescription for Aerohist, Astelin, Advair and Nasacort. I've done Gentimycin washes, saline washes, etc. Just recently, I purchased a Grossan Hydropulse unit. Unfortunately, I had another infection when I received it in the mail so I don't know if it will help yet or not. This is beginning to get very frustrating and it is difficult to keep functioning at 100% with an infection every month or two. I also worry about what the repeated use of antibiotics will do to my body. Does anyone have any advice on how to keep the infections away? After I suffered with multiple sinus infections, year after year, for decades, I experimented with flooding my nasal passages with an anti-infective mixture that could kill germs and infection, without killing me. I found a safe way, for me, to keep my forehead pointed down, for a few minutes, with my nasal passages flooded with a mixture of diluted 3% hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and kosher salt. Sinus flooding not only killed my sinus infection, but also has kept myself infection free, without having to use antibiotics. . I have now been sinus infection free for over 3 years. I think that my chronic infection problems were associated with my turbinates, so the anti-infective mixture worked very well, for me, since the infected areas were fairly easy to reach. . Here is the link to the detailed documentation of the "Upside Down Sinus Flooding: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-upsidedown . . "If you save one life, it is as though you save the entire world" > I've had a history of sinus infections every 1 - 2 months since > December 2000. Coughing from the infection caused me to crack 4 ribs. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Does anyone have any advice on how to keep the infections away? > I've had a history of sinus infections every 1 - 2 months since > December 2000. Coughing from the infection caused me to crack 4 ribs. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Does anyone have any advice on how to keep the infections away? First of all, I admire you to keep going as you have with this misery. I have the coughing form of sinusitis too and it's been a long time since I've been at peak efficiency. I always wonder how sinusitis starts in the first place. Did you have sinusitis all your life, or did it start after some change to your lifestyle? Like did you start smoking or move to a new area or take a new job? Sometimes, lifestyle changes are the key to relieving the inflammation in your sinuses. Also, you need to get cultures of the secretions out of your sinuses to find out what bugs are infecting you. And this should include fungal as well as bacterial, because (as you may have noticed from other posts) Allergic Fungal Sinusitis is more common than previously believed.  SignatureSteven D. Litvintchouk Email: sdlitvin@earthlinkNOSPAM.net Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me. I might add that since you've had sinus surgery you might want to get a culture done by an ENT directly from your sinuses. It has been my experience that cultures of the mucus and direct sinus cultures haven't correlated, except for coagulase negative staph, and there is considerable debate about its role in chronic sinusitis since it is a part of the normal flora. You need to get sensitivities done also. Kathyw Kathyw, When you say I need to get sensitivities done do you mean allergy testing? > I always wonder how sinusitis starts in the first place. Did you have > sinusitis all your life, or did it start after some change to your > lifestyle? Like did you start smoking or move to a new area or take a > new job? Sometimes, lifestyle changes are the key to relieving the > inflammation in your sinuses. I've had minor sinus problems all my life, but nothing that couldn't be controlled. In 1996 I moved to the Houston, TX area and didn't have any problems with infections until December 2000. Nothing really changed other than the area and a little more stress of having a family. I have never smoked although I have packed on a few pounds. Until recently, I did not do any regular excercise. Since January I have been doing Tae Kwon Do for stress relief and excercise. In 2001, we moved to Michigan but the infections started before the move so I don't think that was the trigger. In 2004, we moved back to the Houston area and nothing has really changed. I'm at a bit of a loss as to why things got I did have a culture done of my sinuses a few years back; however, I don't remember the results. By sensitivities I meant that if they culture something, they can see which antibitoic it is sensitive to if its bacterial so youn wont's keep using antibiotics that aren't effective. I remember this being done once; however, it is not a routine event. Should I get a culture taken every time I have an infection? Does anyone else have any advice? |
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