Post Nasal Surgery: Questions and Concerns

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joelsemail@optonline.net - 10 Feb 2007 15:05 GMT

Hoping someone can offer some insight: I had my deviated Septum fixed
6 weeks ago (right nostril). I also had my left Maxillary Polyp
removed. 3-4 weeks after I still couldn't breathe (right nostril) and
was still having sinus attacks. It is now 6 weeks out. I have had 3
sin-episodes, each lasting about a week.

My doctor did a minor proceedure in the office when I told him of the
problems (3rd week). It seemed to help for about a week.

He says it takes time for nose to heal and the tubes to clear?

A) i very rarely can breath through this nostril without it gurgling.
B) My Etubes are always crackling. And the ear pressure is noticable
thx god, if they stop it means I can't hear anything. I would like to
have the crackling go away and be able to hear: That's not asking much
is it!!!
C) When I irrigate I can't get a stream of water to come out that
nostril, plus irrigation slighly affects my etubes

Can someone with insight offer some advice, comfort, and or helpfull
words? My depression is getting worse from this whole ordeal. Granted
the problem existed for years prior, but the expectation of a possible
resolution...all the time and energy..argh!

Is it normal to not have a decent air flow after a deviated septum
surgery? Everyone I spoke to told me they it was night and day after
the surgery.
Does it really take time for it heal properly?

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Steven L. - 10 Feb 2007 15:16 GMT

> Hoping someone can offer some insight: I had my deviated Septum fixed
> 6 weeks ago (right nostril). I also had my left Maxillary Polyp
> removed. 3-4 weeks after I still couldn't breathe (right nostril) and
> was still having sinus attacks. It is now 6 weeks out. I have had 3
> sin-episodes, each lasting about a week.

Healing times vary tremendously, depending on what was wrong in the
first place. In my case, I developed a post-operative sinus infection
that didn't heal for months. It was a full year before I experienced
the full beneficial effect of the surgery.

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Nadine - 10 Feb 2007 22:50 GMT

> Is it normal to not have a decent air flow after a deviated septum
> surgery? Everyone I spoke to told me they it was night and day after
> the surgery.
> Does it really take time for it heal properly?

I had surgery in 1999. My doctor had me start allergy shots 1 month
post-op and I had to stay on Nasonex for 6 months. He also would not
let me irrigate for some time after but I can't remember for how long.
Maybe 2 months.

I do rememeber it took a while for my sense of smell to return to
normal and in all probably about 6 months until I really felt great
with no more symptoms or pain sensations in my face at all.

Nadine

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truehawk - 13 Feb 2007 01:29 GMT

I found it helpful to hold a half dozen 75 mg ranitidine tabs (generic
ZANTAC) in the back of my throat like throat lozenges.
This makes gobs of mucus fall out, and easy to sniff out.
It takes a bit of practice to spit out the mucus with out spitting out
the pills, but it can be done.

Before using ZANTAC I felt like a practice dummy for someone using a
burning sword on my back, stomach and esophogas when I swallowed the
mucus. I finally figured out that the mucus is digestive and it was
the in bacteria in my head that were organizing to digest parts of my
sinuses. Anyway with the ranitidine interfers with that and I can get
rid of enough of the mucus in back to allow me to sniff out the
blockage and blow out a breathing path.

A spray made of two grams of MSM, one gram of food grade EDTA, two
tablespoons of Xyitol and a tablespoon of cigerette ashes mixed with
50 ml of water and strained through a coffee filter, then microwaved
for a minute also helps. Actinomycetes don't like the MSM and
most strains of pseudomonas can't handle the nitrate salts left behind
in the cigerette ash. After a while sticky black plaque can be blown
out. The charcoal from the cigerette ash seems to stick preferentally
to the yellowgreen stuff.

Hope this helps.

Elizabeth

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