so ever since i was a sophmore in highschool i have been dealing with severe asthma and nasal problems.While I was a teenager my mom took me to every kind of specialist to see what was the matter with me. When I had a cat scan of my lungs, the doctors saw that they were filling with fluid, which they treated, but my coughing persisted after anyway. I was tested for allergies and although it looked like i was only mildly allergic to dust, i had allergy shots for two years, but it didn't work. I've been to a chiroprator. I've been to a healer. I've been everywhere. I've tried everything. The only thing that works is prednisone, and everyone knows that will do more bad then good if you take it everyday. After I turned 18, my mom stopped paying for my health insurance. I was 18 so I couldn't really pay for it myself. I can't live half a day without my inhaler- if i don't have it with me i'm doomed- and this is mainly a result of the fact that I can't afford advair...oh advair, i wish i could jump through the tv screen when i see it on a commercial and bring it back with me, advair makes my asthma go away like a miracle. sometimes if i have a really bad asthma attack and i think i might not make it through the day i'll go a doctor for a nebulizer treatment and a prescription for prednisone. they always think i'm ridiculous for not having a regular doctor. I get albuteral from my grandma so i never really feel the need to go...but lately its been getting worse and worse. Last time I had a really bad attack the doctor said my lungs were behaving like i was running a marathon while smoking cigarettes. I don't smoke, by the way. Every night I can't sleep without a box of tissues. I don't have a sense of smell anymore, but what really gets to me is that now I get really severe sinus headaches. I can't handle it. So, anyway, my point is that today i was taking a shower, i always take a hot shower before i go to bed because the steam helps so i always blow my nose really hard for a while to clear it out and then i do the same thing in the morning because those are the two times in the day i am most congested. this morning i was holding onto one side of my nose, trying to blow out the other, and it just WOULD NOT budge. I was blowing, and blowing, my ears were popping, i was getting dizzy- it was ridiculous. Fianlly POP! my nose gives birth, into my hand - so gross just thinking about it- what looked like a little organ about the size of a smushed grape. it was hard, pink and veiny and it was covered in a layer of yellowish skinlike tissue that peeled back after i rinsed off all the blood in the shower. I pretty much freaked out and called my mom who looked it up on line and said it could be a polyp- buuttt...i haven't read anything about someone blowing one out of their nose... the thing was, it felt really good once it was gone, that side of my nose was clear all day and i could breathe, but i had a headache all day. Just now, before going to bed, i rinsed my nose out with warm water and salt and now its is really stuffy again. I'm not really sure what to make of my whole situation. i just moved to NYC to pursue my career as a fashion designer, I'm 22, I'm an intern- so I'm pretty much really broke and I have no health insurance. I just think if I'm blowing small tumour-like masses out of my nose I should probably get some real medical advice?? And also, I heard the nettie-pot could be the solution to all my nasal problems- including possible polyps??? Is this true?? because i am going to get one 2morrow...=)