How long are you supposed to do the sinus rinse after this surgery?
I have a bad feeling it's daily for life, but I hate doing PM work on myself.
There ya go Roscoe
How long are you supposed to do the sinus rinse after this surgery?
I have a bad feeling it's daily for life, but I hate doing PM work on myself.
"If you call that hard work, a koalas life would look heroic."
Right now I am on a strict regimine of water, kosher salt, baking soda 2x a day and it is used with one of those baby syringes. The idea is that the syringe bulb will create unough pressure to break up any blood clots and crap that is left from the surgery. This goes on for a month, after that I will have to use those saline solutions 2x a day that are like a mist...........so its not too bad.
Well guys just an update now that we are at week 3 post-op.
I can not and have not been able to for the past 6 days smell or taste. The doc says my swelling is worse than expected and is pressing on the olfactory nerve and the nerve is not firing, thus no smell or taste. I am now on MORE steroids and it sucks. Not tasting or smelling is very depressing but hopefully this will only be temporary!!!
Not too sure this surgery was such a good idea now.
One week before I was to have surgery on my nose, my wife had an accident and she had her knee scoped. I opted to postpone my surgery until after she recovered fully. She has recovered and now I am rethinking, based on your experiences. please keep posting you "progress", as I will be .
Well, I have been using these new liquid steroids that you have to shoot up your nose for about a week and my taste and smell have returned so that is a good thing.
I wouldn't say the surgery was bad, they say you have to wait 8 weeks for full results and full healing and it has been almost 4 weeks now so hopefully this is just the halfway healing point and in another 4 weeks everything will be better than ever ..I hope.
I see a Neti Pot in your future. My wife swears by this, she had the same surgery as you did. I have tried it also for nasal congestion and it works like a charm
You should be able to get it in any drugstore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsZeILCedRw