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03-30-2014 11:19 PM
Anyone have surgery for nasal polyps? My son probably will have to have this surgery and needs to know as much info as possible. TIA!!
03-30-2014 11:41 PM
03-30-2014 11:44 PM
On 3/30/2014 gillsburg said: My husband had this qbout 3 years ago. He was down qbout a week or more. Lots of pain . Has had to have it done again a year ago. Still gets sinus infections around 3-4 times a year and has to get shot and steroids. Said he would never have it done again
I don't think my son has a choice. The polyps are quite large. Any advice about choosing a doctor or managing the recovery?
03-31-2014 08:58 AM
Fortune,
My only advice is that your son find a good ENT he is comfortable with, to do this surgery. My daughter is consulting her ENT next week about possible surgery to widen her nasal passages. She has many issues with allergies and sinusitis, and I think she needs to have something done to help resolve some of her issues and relieve her suffering. She has been seeing her physician for many years; he removed her tonsils 5 years ago when she was 30, so she is comfortable with him. Sending best wishes to your son!
03-31-2014 09:45 AM
I have had that surgery twice. In the early 80's when I had it first done, it was pure torture. At that time they did a packing which when taken out was like a magic trick of pulling out the scarfs tied together, pulling and never ending. It was so painful.
When I had it again 10 years later, with medical advances it was a piece of cake in comparison. No packing, just round little gauze things stuck up your nostrils (like what the dentist puts in your mouth).
The only thing I can say that was uncomfortable the last time was I swallowed a LOT of blood but once I was able to vomit the blood, I felt fine.
I can honestly say I have not had one sinus infection since my last surgery which was in the early to mid 90's and I am sure since then, techniques have gotten better than.
03-31-2014 09:47 AM
03-31-2014 10:12 AM
03-31-2014 06:26 PM
Thank you all so much for your input! I feel so bad for him, because he can hardly breathe, has a headache most of the time, and is tired all the time. The only thing I can do to help him is to get as much info as possible. I just hope Kaiser will let him choose his own surgeon!
03-31-2014 07:22 PM
Why? every surgery I have had at Kaiser went GREAT!
03-31-2014 07:26 PM
On 3/31/2014 Fortune said:Thank you all so much for your input! I feel so bad for him, because he can hardly breathe, has a headache most of the time, and is tired all the time. The only thing I can do to help him is to get as much info as possible. I just hope Kaiser will let him choose his own surgeon!
I had polyps at one time that lasted for about 2 yrs.
When I finally found a competent dr (NOT an ENT) he did an old fashioned q tip swab of my sinuses. I'd been on round after round of various antibiotics. All the antibiotics were doing was making my liver very unhappy. Not one dr, including 2 ENT's had swabbed my sinuses. It's call a culture and sensitivity.
Well, the results came back that I had a fungal infection, not a bacterial infection. My dr recommended a compound pharmacist who worked up a nasal spray (avoiding my liver) to treat the infection. OMG, within weeks I was amazingly better! $24 for a nasal spray. After nearly 18 months of antibiotics.
Sinuses are very hard to treat. Get a 2nd opinion, even a third before you put him thru this.
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