| Hi, So to avoid confusion here, my surgery wasn't some alternative to CPAP per se, but fixed my breathing issue. In short, my nose got so restricted I could barely breathe from it at all. My journey began by seeing a doctor for it, who tapped on my forehead and said I don't have a sinus infection, take an allergy pill and go away. Nothing but pseudofed ever helped at all, and that got expensive and restricted. Then I saw an allergy doctor, who said that's a stupid test and did an MRI and found that I have something like a constant sinus infection, and inflammation everywhere. He sent me to an ENT, which honestly is probably where I should have started. As a side note, I did try allergy shots for about a year with no luck. The ENT has these cool but odd feeling cameras they shove deep into your nose to see around. It's a horrible feeling tbh, sometimes you feel it in your eye or even tooth(nerves, I guess). He determined I had polyps really bad and a deviated septum, so in one marathon surgery did both. Afterwards, it was great, and slowly got worse. ENT said polyps were coming back, so put me on a daily sinus rinse with budesonide(sp?). So each night I rinse my nose with that, and have for going on 8 years now I guess. It's kinda gross, you wouldn't believe all the snot that comes out after the steroids open everything up, which usually takes about 20 mins. Feel free to ask any questions. |
I definitely don't have a constant sinus infection, so it sounds like your situation isn't at all like mine. At least probably not. Nonetheless I really appreciate your time writing all of that out, thank you