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Any of you baws had sinus surgery?
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:05 am
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:05 am
Wondering what the recovery is going to be like.
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Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:09 am to PatrickBeetmen
One of my junior Marines had a sinus surgery. Doctor went too far, and that guy was messed up bad.
Good news for you, you're probably not being operated on by the Navy. Props to all Corpsmen, but Naval Medicine can be bad.
Good news for you, you're probably not being operated on by the Navy. Props to all Corpsmen, but Naval Medicine can be bad.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:12 am to PatrickBeetmen
my dad has... my friend has...and coworker has. Every single one said surgery SUCKED, recovery SUCKED. And said that the results wasnt worth it. I have literally not met anyone personally that actually said it was worth it
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:14 am to oleyeller
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I have literally not met anyone personally that actually said it was worth it
Is taking it up the arse from your boyfriend worth it?
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:15 am to PatrickBeetmen
I had surgery when my nose was punched 50 degrees to the left.
It sucked. 3 days with the splints. Couldnt sleep much becasue the gauze got full of blood every two hours.
Took a bunch of Vicodins.
The worst part was when the doctor pulled the splints out of my nose.
ETA: I think this surgery was the reason why I have had a stuffed up left nostril for 20 years. I need to go see another doc if i want to improve my quality of life.
It sucked. 3 days with the splints. Couldnt sleep much becasue the gauze got full of blood every two hours.
Took a bunch of Vicodins.
The worst part was when the doctor pulled the splints out of my nose.
ETA: I think this surgery was the reason why I have had a stuffed up left nostril for 20 years. I need to go see another doc if i want to improve my quality of life.
This post was edited on 12/15/17 at 12:18 am
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:15 am to oleyeller
I just had a huge nasal polyp removed from my nose last month. I have a deviated septum too but they said it wasn’t worth fixing. It wasn’t fun, but it was worth it. I couldn’t breathe out of one side of my nose for months and it sucked. I couldn’t sleep or taste most of my food.
This post was edited on 12/15/17 at 12:16 am
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:17 am to PatrickBeetmen
It helps a lot.
The gauze the doctor packed my sinuses with was supposed to dissolve, but it did the opposite, it seemed to swell instead, becoming a mass of half clotted blood and tissue.
I remember her pulling out what looked like a bloody golf ball from my nostril a week after the surgery.
It also felt like someone was pulling a golf ball out of my nostril.
That was the only real grief though. They tell you to count down from ten, but you’re gone by the time you hit eight.
And then you wake up, with no sense that time has passed
The gauze the doctor packed my sinuses with was supposed to dissolve, but it did the opposite, it seemed to swell instead, becoming a mass of half clotted blood and tissue.
I remember her pulling out what looked like a bloody golf ball from my nostril a week after the surgery.
It also felt like someone was pulling a golf ball out of my nostril.
That was the only real grief though. They tell you to count down from ten, but you’re gone by the time you hit eight.
And then you wake up, with no sense that time has passed
This post was edited on 12/15/17 at 12:25 am
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:18 am to supadave3
You couldn't sleep or taste your food before the surgery? Now are you back to normal?
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:20 am to PatrickBeetmen
Recovery isn't fun, but I'd say it's worth it. I had a deviated septum and several polyps. The surgery did help, but I had done an allergy test and the doc that did the surgery never followed up with the results. I was 19 and just assumed I didn't have any allergies. Went to a different doc who put me on flonase and everything has been better ever since. Went from having upwards of 10 sinus infections a year (honestly it felt like they never went away) to 1 maybe 2 a year.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:25 am to PatrickBeetmen
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u couldn't sleep or taste your food before the surgery? Now are you back to normal
Pretty much. I would fall asleep but wake up every hour or so because I couldn’t breathe out my nose. I’m told I sounded ‘ like I was dying’ when sleeping. I never slept soundly at all.
As far as the taste, I could taste things but nothing really stuck out. Things were all bland, nothing really tasted good except sweets. Those were still delicious.
Now everything is fine. I’m 100% tip top!!
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:26 am to PatrickBeetmen
Yes. Recovery took days. Easy. Much easier than shoulder surgery. Have less than one-fourth of the sinus infections now. Do it.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:27 am to PatrickBeetmen
My sense of smell is still torched. And everything tastes the way it did.
I breathe and sleep so much easier though.
I breathe and sleep so much easier though.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:44 am to PatrickBeetmen
Twice. If your sinuses are full of polyps and infection you will feel like a million bucks before too long.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 12:46 am to oleyeller
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Every single one said surgery SUCKED, recovery SUCKED. And said that the results wasnt worth it. I have literally not met anyone personally that actually said it was worth it
all of this is true. do not do it OP. my breathing is still fricked up and i put up with 2.5 weeks of agony afterwards. dont waste your time
Posted on 12/15/17 at 1:40 am to PatrickBeetmen
Had deviated septum repaired and sinus cavities opened up and I don’t feel any difference than before. Absolutely wasn’t worth the money or shite I had to deal with in recovery
Posted on 12/15/17 at 1:53 am to KajunKouyon
Quite a conflicting batch of outcomes in here. If you weren’t undecided before, I’m sure you are now.
This post was edited on 12/15/17 at 1:54 am
Posted on 12/15/17 at 6:22 am to PatrickBeetmen
This is an unbelievable ratio of successes and fails. Good luck OP 
Posted on 12/15/17 at 6:45 am to PatrickBeetmen
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sinus surgery?
Is kind of broad. Probably why you are getting such varied responses. My 81 year old mother just had sinus surgery on one side becaus one sinus was almost totally block. She didn’t complain about much at all, outpatient surgery. The main reason her doctor wanted to do it was to decrease the number of sinus infections she was getting. Constant antibiotics are not good for anyone and particularly not for a person in their 80s.
Good luck
Posted on 12/15/17 at 7:09 am to mdomingue
I actually had the surgery yesterday. Doc removed some polyps that went deep in the sinuses. Also widened the passages between sinuses. Surgery took about an hour under general anesthesia. So far recovery hasn't been bad. Lotta blood, little pain, nothing some pain killer can't handle. We'll see if it improves breathing.
Thanks for all the stories, it does seem hit or miss.
Thanks for all the stories, it does seem hit or miss.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 7:13 am to PatrickBeetmen
I have had polyps removed 3 times now. The recovery is not that bad at all. The worse is the stent removal. May be the worse pain I have ever felt.
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