> This is the third time I have tried this post.
> A lot of the time i the letters for validation are so smushed together
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> I have been trying to decide how to respond to your post before it
> goes poof.
Thanks.
> First I would see about getting vaccinated against HPV and HI. Both
> vaccinations are available now and both are known to play a role in
> sinusitis.
Really? Interesting, I had a small oral papilloma when I saw the last
ENT while infected. What's HI?
> It really helps if the ENTs know what the problem is. There is a
> paradigm that the sinuses swell due to allergic inflammation and
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> that I know who have had surgery have lived life in varying degrees of
> relapse.
Yes, I agree. I guess my priority for surgery is cleaning out what's
there and then maintaining the cleaning. Today, I'm reminded of just
how effective the enzyme path is. Cleaned the hot tub that we'd purged
last year with enzymatic cleaner, filling it with greasy sewage like goo
from the lines. This year, today, barely anything with scrupulous
maintenance all these months. I no longer have inflamed passages, not
remarkably since allergic desensitization, which continues progressively.
> The exception are a couple of people that I know that had heavy
> antibiotics before and after surgery. One I know had Sproanox for 6
> weeks before and after surgery. This guy had radio ablation and was
> symptom free the last time I saw him, which was 3 years after the
> surgery.
Well, anti fungals are off my menu, way too adrenal suppressive for me.
> I am not saying that you would not benefit from surgery, especially if
> you turn out to have some form of nasal squamous papilloma due to
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> These can turn into some of the most invasive tumors known to man, and
> probably need to be cut out pronto.
I don't think I have any tumors or blockages, I think I have goo up there.
> HPV has a stigma as a social disease, but it is found in the sinuses
> of dolphins and whales too, so I hypothesize that it is actually
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> keep the bugs at bay long enough for the area to heal after the
> surgery.
It's my intention to ask. I'm not signing up for a procedure without a
plan to do major cleanup and maintenance.
> Oh and you might drink plenty of Welches Concord Grape Juice. The blue
> pigment attaches to the bugs.
First of all, I'm diabetic, I don't drink any juice, ever. I only
rarely eat fruit. Second, that much sugar is enough to suppress the
immunity of anyone, diabetic or not. Irrigate with it, maybe, but drink
it? Nah. :-)
Otherwise the film will just be mostly
> clear when the doc looks at it, and he won't see much.
> but you could make him mad, as I did with my infectious disease
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> Evidently when he looked at my adenoids he saw multicolored patches
> and he did not react well.
I could just stop the Augmentin and bring him my brown, red, green,
yellow morning tissues. :-) Within one day, it's back.
My passages look great because I irrigate and stuff, but I now have two
C-T scans, one with frontal mucosal thickening, one with maxillary
thickening. That article I paid for and sent you seems to say that
mucosal thickening correlates best with symptom severity. I can't
afford any infection; when my maxillary was sore a few weeks ago, I got
severe back spasms due to the adrenal suppression. My new PCP gets
this, and she seems to think this guy will be proactive. I'm hopeful,
but keeping expectations minimal.
Susan
truehawk - 27 May 2008 03:53 GMT
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> Susan
Can you handle beta carotene?
Susan - 27 May 2008 13:52 GMT
> Can you handle beta carotene?
Sure, though not without turning orange, like most folks.
Because I don't eat starch, my diet is LOADED with colorful, leafy stuff
and some berries daily. Heaps of it by volume, but not as % of calories.
Susan
truehawk - 27 May 2008 04:05 GMT
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> Susan
HI is Haemophilus influenzae, and is the most common cause of ear
infections in children, hence the vaccine (and evidently is still
present in adults.) Any bug you can knock off the list is one less to
deal with.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18439472?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEn
trez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpo
s=4&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed
Susan - 27 May 2008 13:52 GMT
> HI is Haemophilus influenzae, and is the most common cause of ear
> infections in children, hence the vaccine (and evidently is still
> present in adults.) Any bug you can knock off the list is one less to
> deal with.
>
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18439472?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEn
trez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpo
s=4&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed
Of course, thanks!
Susan
Duke - 18 Jun 2008 22:28 GMT
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Just FYI to any and all, I showed blood test results a couple years
back indicating I had very little protection to Hi. However, a
physician friend and a pharmacist were unable to get any vaccine for
me. It is not available for adults, nor is there ( tomy knowledge) any
that is not in a cocktail mix dose for kids. Later, I was told I did
not really need any antigen to Hi as adult.