I've been off-line for the last week because I've been sick with an
apparent newly developed allergy to Avelox.  On Friday 11/19 I woke up
with a fever & the beginnings of a rash on my legs--just little red
dots.  At that point I had been taking Avelox for 8 days for a sinus

I have had bad sinus for the last two years, repeated infections, headache,
post nasal drip. I have done about everything possible to over come the
problem. I  found out that where my wife has been working is infested with
this black mold. She has had sinus problem along with me.My ...

I have been having some symptoms and I wanted to discuss them here.
They have been with me for more than a year. I tried discussing them
with a couple of physicians but they always diagnosed me with
allergies. The allergy medicines never worked.

hi -- sure people have come across this before.
Am having tremendous problems with infected sinuses after swimming.
Whats the best cure?
Also, slightly off topic, get very cold in the water after recent heart surgery.

A friend of mine pointed me to the following website.  It gives
recommended antibiotic therapies for a variety of ENT conditions,
including sinusitis.  It's written by a professor of otolaryngology.
http://antimicrobial.entlink.net

Go to this site and learn about what antibiotics are
doing to you and your children, then go to Google and
type in:
Spontaneous Tendon Ruptures Cephalexin

   I heard that Europeans are big on colloidal silver in a nebulizer to help
kill infections in the sinus.
                                               EdPaolo
                                           Scotch PLains, NJ

Hi All, I'm on day 3 of antibiotics: Amoxicillin 875 mg + clavulunate
potassium 125 mg - 2 x's daily. I woke up this morning and for the first
time in two months, I could SMELL. I saline irrigated as soon as I woke
up, headed to the kitchen to make hot tea, and I could smell the ...

I wonder if anyone else gets the following symptoms.  I have recurrent
polyps and sinusitis, and also suffer with TMJ/Bruxism problems.
1) Routinely I have NO sense of smell
2) A couple of days before I get a cold or 'flu my sense of smell

Is there a solution that I can mix with the hot water that I breathe in,
that will further aid my sinuses? I don't think an irrigator is the best
thing for me as I get very little 'running' or discharge, only stuffiness,
blocking and severe pain. The steaming helps, and if there was ...

I've noticed the last few days that I have quite a bit of congestion
in my right sinus cavity and some intermittent throbbing pain in the
lower portion of it.  Noticed yesterday that I have a small lump
(about the size of a pea I think)in a corresponding position on the

Quick question:
I had a visit with a new ENT/Facial reconstructive surgeon at UCSF. He
listened to my sorry story (nasal congestion that also causes the typical
sinus pressure problems not helped by anything inc. turbinate surgery,

Hi All, been lurking in here for the past wk., and learning from the
posts plus
links. I'm on my 2nd round of antibiotics,
amoxicillin 875 mg. + Clavulanate 125 mg

Some of you may remember me.
After two failed courses of antibiotics, about two months ago I
started a one month course of KLARICID XL (Clarithromycin), and
steroids. I had all my sinuses almost completely flooded and my chest

Hi - I am new to this group but have been a sufferer for many a year.
I had a septoplastic 22 years ago and I had a turbinate reduction
procedure (RF heat treatment) about 2 years ago that was only
partially successful - it did relieve the turbinate problem about 70%