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If this doesn't do the trick, and you're still hesitant to move to surgery, no one would fault you for asking your doc for a leukotriene inhibitor (like Singulair). There's not great evidence in the literature, but anecdotally it does pretty well in helping to control a chronic sinusitis-like picture. It's also readily available, cheap, and relatively benign.

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Good recommendation. Should have mentioned that myself. Personally, I'd strongly recommend the surgery route over that but I certainly understand why some people are hesitant to undergo surgery. The balloon sinuplasty and a turbinate reduction can be done under local anesthesia.

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the green snot is not about allergies.

get antibiotics.

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Allergies can certainly play a significant role in a bacterial or infection. Allergies lead to blocked sinuses which lead to backed up mucus (essentially a breeding ground for bacteria) and then to a sinus infection.

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1) how old are you?
2) is it after drinking beer or eating lots of bread?
3) is it at its worst in the morning?

I was waking up with terrible sinus problems in the mornings mainly and it was due to a wheat/gluten allergy that is recently developed. Beer sets it off terrible. Bread does it too. My GP says it comes with age due to modern diet.

Cutting out beer cures it for me.

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Food allergens certainly may cause sinus problems, but unless it's severe or there are other underlying conditions, I don't think so. Plenty of people have food allergens and no sinus problems resulting from them. Address the other potential causes listed throughout this thread before blaming bread.

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Also Neti pot is the best treatment for sinus infections. 3 days of 3x daily will get rid of it. Natural and works.

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It's effective, but I certainly wouldn't call nasal rinses the best treatment for sinus infections.

Allergy shots (they can take a long time to work, sometimes more than 1.5 years, ask about an accelerated schedule), Zyrtec/Claritin/Allegra, and flonase/nasacort/nasonex/dymista (dymista also contains an antihistamine so if it's cost prohibitive you can get astepro and flonase separately). Throw in some nasal rinses, but don't do it if one side is completely clogged. If it is, go for a run or take afrin (amazing stuff) then do the rinse.

If you feel a sinus infection coming on or currently have one, take afrin twice a day for three days (and no longer, trust me) while doing the rinse. This should take care of things.

Keep in mind that flonase and whatnot can actually take several weeks to completely take effect. Sometimes different nasal steroids work well for some people and not for others (same with antihistamines).

Now, getting a sinus infection every three months is certainly not normal, especially once your allergies have been addressed with the shots. Ask your allergist about doing blood work just to be certain. Also ask about the pneumovax vaccine, it addresses the most common bacterial culprit of sinus infections. There are a few other vaccines to consider but you should have them and your allergist should test you for them just to be certain.

That being said, see a good doctor (PM me if you'd like) and make sure no structural abnormalities are present. If they are severe enough, nothing aside from afrin will give you true relief (maybe not even then and it will still not be ideal for your breathing and sinus health). Procedures to consider: functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), ballon sinuplasty, septoplasty, and turbinate reduction (preferably with a microdebrider and a possible outfracture).

There are other potential causes to consider, but they are rare and should be considered after all of this has been addressed.

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Gun homicides have been going down since the Brady Bill was passed. Go figure.

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You do realize correlation does not equal causation, right?

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Context In February 1994, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act established a nationwide requirement that licensed firearms dealers observe a waiting period and initiate a background check for handgun sales. The effects of this act have not been analyzed.

Objective To determine whether implementation of the Brady Act was associated with reductions in homicide and suicide rates.

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Results Changes in rates of homicide and suicide for treatment and control states were not significantly different, except for firearm suicides among persons aged 55 years or older (-0.92 per 100,000; 95% confidence interval [CI], -1.43 to -0.42). This reduction in suicides for persons aged 55 years or older was much stronger in states that had instituted both waiting periods and background checks (-1.03 per 100,000; 95% CI, -1.58 to -0.47) than in states that only changed background check requirements (-0.17 per 100,000; 95% CI, -1.09 to 0.75).

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The Courts don't usually like to mess with settled case law. And thanks to the McDonald and Heller cases, the individual right to bear arms isn't going anywhere unless the second amendment is altered or something of the sort.

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I love when liberals say "What good is your gun going to do against the US Government when they can kill you with a drone 2,500 miles away?"

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Or just say something to the effect of "those AK-47s sure seem to be working out fairly well for the Taliban." It is our longest lasting war.

Modern defensive ammunition has greatly improved the effectiveness of pistol rounds and has decreased the performance gap between rounds.

Assuming all things are equal, .45 is still going to display better ballistics with the same bullet design. However, the difference is not nearly as significant as it once was and it is almost certainly outweighed by the ability to carry more ammunition and place faster follow-up shots (as well as a few other factors).

Unless you want a 1911, simply prefer the .45, or have other needs (shooting suppressed), I would generally always recommend a 9mm.

It has happened plenty of times and it will happen again.

People get mistaken for people all the time, maybe they thought he was someone stepping on their trade. It happens.

I mean, a dude randomly shot up an elementary school over a year ago.

And yeah, great idea. Put his family in the middle of a gun fight (if he would have had a gun).

Looking for a fight... lol get real dude. Do you really think he was just waiting for the day someone decided to step on his front lawn so he could test out his new hardware? Hell, maybe he was, but that's certainly a stretch. Is it really so hard to believe you can defend your family from a few feet outside your home in your own fenced in yard?

If you go outside like he did, maybe you can catch them by surprise. You do want every possible advantage within the law when defending your family.

You pretty much forfeit your right to live when you put a man's family in danger, whether you like it or not.

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About 15 years ago, a guy shot a car burglar in Carrolton or the Riverbend area. Nobody had driveways in the neighborhood, so everyone parked on the street. The guy lived on a corner and his car was parked on the side street. He got up during the night to piss, looked out the bathroom window and some a-hole was stealing his car stereo. The homeowner got his shotgun and fired a .410 slug through the window screen and into the car burglar's back. He ran down the block and bled out.

Homeowner gets arrested and goes to trial (I think for Manslaughter, but I don't remember for sure). Not guilty! Not a hung jury, but not guilty. He shot a guy in the back, from inside his house and the jury gave him a pass.

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(4)(a) When committed by a person lawfully inside a dwelling, a place of business, or a motor vehicle as defined in R.S. 32:1(40), against a person who is attempting to make an unlawful entry into the dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle, or who has made an unlawful entry into the dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle, and the person committing the homicide reasonably believes that the use of deadly force is necessary to prevent the entry or to compel the intruder to leave the premises or motor vehicle.

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Unless I missed something when glancing over it, it does not say you have to be in the car while it's being burglarized. Just inside a dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle. Might not be the original intent of the statute, but there you have it.

I would think so as well. Meant to put something along those lines in the post above.

He certainly had every right to be there.

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If Coulter had been pulling on the door to the house when Landry shot him, Landry wouldn't be having all these problems. I think the main issue is that the kid WASN'T breaking into the house and Landry's self-defense story isn't airtight.

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And that the kid was 14 and unarmed.

It shouldn't make a difference for the most part in this case, but some people just can't get past that, especially after the Zimmerman case.

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I didnt say he needed to give him a heads up. I said he more than likely didn't.

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hurr... durr...

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I was just making the point that even if what you think happened (he snuck up on the kid and didn't give him a friendly heads up) actually happened, he's still pretty much in the right under the law as I see it.

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That's pretty much the way you have made it out to be throughout this thread.

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do you give lessons on how to be a badass?

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Nah, just how to win arguments on the Internet.