Chronic Sinusitis, Nor Relief From Surgery Posted: 05-29-05 17:34pm
Ok, I am 21 years old, about 3 years ago I
started to feel sort of sick all the time
and fatigued. My concentration seemed
like that of a 5 year old and I had
pressure and headaches in my forehead
area, and a chronic cough in which I would
regularly cough up phlegm (sp?). I
ignored it for a long time thinking it
would just go away, it didnt of course,
went to the doctor and he misdiagnosed it
several times and just put me on a z-pack
antibiotics which of course did nothing.
So in short ive had this infection for 3
years, and the doctors are so incompetent
where I live (that or my doc is an fool)
that it was only until recently when I
travelled all the way from midland, texas
to scottsdale, arizona to go to the mayo
clinic to find out what the hell was
wrong.
So a few days of testing and cat scans and
such they figured it was a massive
infection of the frontal sinuses. This
was in january of this year. So they put
me on singulair and an antibiotic and told
me to irrigate my sinuses and it should go
away. It didnt. So I saw the ent doc
here in town, he put me on prednisone (10
mg, 4 for 3 days, 3 for 3 days, so on.
Didnt work. So I had sinus surgery in
which he enlarged the passage and allowed
the infection to drain out, also fixed my
deviated septum.
Its been almost 2 months since the
surgery, and my symptoms have not been
alleviated at all. He has since put me
back on prednisone and cefroxidime with a
tapered dosage on the steroid. That didnt
work, then he put me on a low sustained
dosage of the steroid again, which didnt
work (30 days). I am now using tobradex
drops and im at the end of my rope here.
Im seriously losing it, feeling like crap
every day for 3 years has taken a huge
toll on me, and the thought of living with
this for the rest of my life is very, very
depressing. Please, if anyone out there
has any suggestions, any at all I would
appreciate it. I have to get rid of this
infection, or I think im gonna have a
nervous breakdown or something. So any
help would be appreciated...
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Egtuscani03
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Midland
Add. Posted: 05-29-05 17:43pm
Oh, something I forgot, the reason that I
am even posting here is because my ear
nose throat doc doesnt know why im not
feeling better. He had to ask some of his
colleagues what I should do and is why im
using the tobradex drops now. Since
nothing else has worked, I dont think this
will either. Ive read that chronic
sinusitis like this is hard to get rid of,
but ive tried virtually everything that is
suggested, im even using echinacea and
goldenseal, irrigating my sinuses, and
soaking my head in really hot and cold
water. Dont know what do do about it
anymore
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aussben
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Austalia
Add Posted: 11-13-05 03:28am
I read you post and was wondering if you
had any success.
I understand how you feel. I first
started to get sinus problems when I was
16 now 29. I had 3 operations second op a
septoplasty and after the septoplasty I
did not want to have another operation
because it was very painful and I had no
relief. So I have just been living with
it, I have been to doctors and most of
them just give or give me a lame reason.
I have tried all the sprays antibotics
etc.
My symptoms are very simular to yours.
The worst part is the concertration and
fatigue. It's hard for me to even read a
book. I suffer from dry eyes as well I
don't know if it's linked to the sinus. I
discovered endoscopic surgery about 12mths
ago and 3 weeks ago I had the surgery. I
had to have another septoplasty cause of
the crapy ent that did it the first time
did not straighten the septom. I can now
breath excellent and sleep really good. I
only got about 4hrs sleep before
constantly waking up.
But I still feel fatigued, facial
pressure/pain and concertration is poor.
I would like to hear from you to see if
you have had any success.
