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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Sinusitis / September 2008Getting a cold while healing from FESS: what to do??
Yeesh, definitely getting a cold, greenish stuff, getting congested, irrigation messing my tubes, feeling sick. I need to know, if anyone knows, what to do before I can call my ENT's office tomorrow. Decongestant or no? I know I was told to humidify and moisturize, not dry, but... which is worse, the congestion or the dryness? Just my luck! (and Lenny's...). Susan > x-no-archive: yes > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I need to know, if anyone knows, what to do before I can call my ENT's > office tomorrow. Just accept it as par for the course. As I had told you prior to your surgery, the scraping of your sinus linings by your surgeon damaged the cilia and other natural defenses of your upper respiratory tract, which left you more vulnerable to post-operative infections. That will continue till your nose is completely healed from the surgery, and the cilia regenerate. > Decongestant or no? I know I was told to humidify and > moisturize, not dry, but... which is worse, the congestion or the dryness? I think you should take no other medications before talking with your surgeon. Take only what he tells you. Irrigation or moisturizing is great because you'll be shedding more virus that way. The more you shed, the less remains to spread. :-)  SignatureSteven L. Email: sdlitvin@earthlinkNOSPAM.net Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me. > Just accept it as par for the course. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > post-operative infections. That will continue till your nose is > completely healed from the surgery, and the cilia regenerate. Will my cilia regenerate after decades of BK laced sprays, you think? >> Decongestant or no? I know I was told to humidify and moisturize, not >> dry, but... which is worse, the congestion or the dryness? > > I think you should take no other medications before talking with your > surgeon. Take only what he tells you. Thanks, called the office this a.m. and was told to use mucolytics, irrigate, but no drying sprays or decongestants. > Irrigation or moisturizing is great because you'll be shedding more > virus that way. The more you shed, the less remains to spread. :-) Doing it, thanks. Also got the reassuring information that the giant clots that've been coming out today on my right side (the bad side) are really dissolvable packing he'd put up there during surgery. PHEW, they're hyooge. Susan > x-no-archive: yes > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Will my cilia regenerate after decades of BK laced sprays, you think? I meant regenerate back to whatever their condition was before you had the surgery. Remember, the linings containing the cilia were scraped away. SignatureSteven L. Email: sdlitvin@earthlinkNOSPAM.net Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me. >> Will my cilia regenerate after decades of BK laced sprays, you think? > > I meant regenerate back to whatever their condition was before you had > the surgery. Remember, the linings containing the cilia were scraped away. Yeah. And to my relief, it turns out that the giant clots I thought I was irrigating out of my bad side were self dissolving packing gel, which means there's very little blood or gunk at all, once I account for that. I hope Lenny is having a better time of it today. Susan Thanks for thinking of me, Susan. I do feel a bit better today. I've now replaced 2 rounds of the percocet with the tylenol 3 but there's a difference, that's for sure. At least I can stand it now, so the pain is getting better. I might switch back later before bed but hoping tomorrow can be the beginning of the end of for percocet. I did see the doc and at least he didn't try to revert to the giant booger theory ;-). He agrees that I have an infection and he swapped in Levaquin as my antibiotic. The thinks the other antibiotic just didn't squash it all. As long as I start to get a little better each day. 6 days of no improvement was frustrating. Hope you're on track. That packing seemed to come out earlier for me. Most of it went down my throat and into my mouth (yuck). It was pretty much gone in a couple of days. > Thanks for thinking of me, Susan. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > in Levaquin as my antibiotic. The thinks the other antibiotic just > didn't squash it all. Lenny, Levaquin is the abx my ENT rx'ed, but I chose not to take it due to potential side effects. It's very effective for most folks, but I was doing well with Augmentin XR and chose to stay on it post op. I'm so glad you got it, though. > As long as I start to get a little better each day. 6 days of no > improvement was frustrating. I bet. > Hope you're on track. That packing seemed to come out earlier for > me. Most of it went down my throat and into my mouth (yuck). It was > pretty much gone in a couple of days. I don't seem to be irrigating any more packing after this a.m. Most of it seemed to come out yesterday and and this a.m. I still feel an URI brewing, but am keeping things loose by taking NAC for now, and drinking plent of water. I sure was relieved to hear that was what it was, it was gross. My sense of smell is significantly better today, too, maybe the two things are related? Feel better, Lenny. Susan I still don't have much of a sense of smell. Hopefully soon. My Boston Terrier has horrible gas tonight (so my wife tells me) so it can wait another day or so ;-). On the topic of irrigation, I asked my doc today how many times per day he thinks I should be doing it and he said 2 is fine. I have to say that I have a hard time believing that's enough. This early on, anyway. If you get that bloody gunk on anything you know how incredibly hard it is to remove. Takes some serious scrubbing. I feel my results from irrigation are good right now and when the doc gives you the green light to blow (ever so gently) a lot of stuff comes out of there after irrigation using very, very little force. It basically amounts to blowing out the water that's left in there from the irrigation a bit more forcefully than gravity would do it and, for me, it greatly increased what comes out. > I still don't have much of a sense of smell. Hopefully soon. My > Boston Terrier has horrible gas tonight (so my wife tells me) so it > can wait another day or so ;-). There's a silver lining for you! > On the topic of irrigation, I asked my doc today how many times per > day he thinks I should be doing it and he said 2 is fine. I have to [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > gives you the green light to blow (ever so gently) a lot of stuff > comes out of there after irrigation using very, very little force. My doc says 4X per day, a really good web site from another ENT I was on tonight says every hour! 2X per day isn't much, especially when you have an infection, not to mention surgery with crusts and scabs forming. I got permission on Monday to blow gently, and just in time, I'd been dying to. It > basically amounts to blowing out the water that's left in there from > the irrigation a bit more forcefully than gravity would do it and, for > me, it greatly increased what comes out. I don't have water up there after irrigating, only some up hehind my palate that comes right down when I tip my head back. My last irrigation of the night there was basically nothing, no blood, no gunk. Susan My sinus DR. suggested using a neti pot and Pickling salt in warm water -the pot comes with a spoon for the salt --It's helped me numerous times with the green gunk -cleared it > My sinus DR. suggested using a neti pot and Pickling salt in warm water > -the pot comes with a spoon for the salt --It's helped me numerous times [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~later trish ~ Thanks, Trish. My doctor has me irrigating 4X per day to clear out the surgery crud. The cold never fully developed, but there is some sign of infected colored stuff from my left side, but maybe that's old gunk. Susan |
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