hot, humid weather wreaking havoc on turbinates
I went off all potentially drying medication soon after implant surgery, and that seemed to help, while the weather was still cold and dry into June. I stopped Xyzal, Flonase, and then Rhinocort. I saw an allergist and came up totally negative for any allergy, although I had tested mildly allergic in the past. The allergist just thought I was sensitive - I guess meaning rhinitis? (I guess an allergy test before my turb reductions would not have deterred anyone from reducing them, after all. Another disturbing issue that makes me wonder about vasomotor rhinitis...) For some reason, I have still needed Breathe Right strips to sleep without snoring and/or waking up suddenly, breathless and gasping. I don't understand why I need Breathe Right strips to breathe in my sleep now that my nose is moister and fuller. It's not like there has been major blockage or swelling for a while, as far as I know. I am two months out now. Now my nostril with the septum side implant feels like it did when I agreed to my second turbinate reduction. It is swollen, the airway feels crazily convoluted and blocked, there is tons of mucus all day and night. I went back to using Flonase, which barely helped, so then I added Xyzal back. I was still so swollen and blocked, I added Sudafed, but I think that pushed me over the edge into jittery insomnia and too-dryness tonight. I fell asleep for an hour then awoke suddenly gasping. I realized my nose was swollen shut - from some kind of paradoxical dryness from all these drying meds plus the Breathe Right strips. So I am now doing my usual miserable insomnia bit, trying to come up with the right alchemy to breathe. Maybe with all these drying meds I can ditch the Breathe Right strips tonight? *My question is, finally: should I come back to Ohio and have the septum side implant reduced a bit? The humidity here is so high and will be for months now. WIll my implant shrink enough over the next few months that I should just be patient and wait it out? Also, what is up with needing the Breathe Right strips? Sorry so frustrated still. Falling and staying asleep has been very tricky. The weather change has really thrown me off, as well as my diagnosis as having no allergies. Then what causes all the swelling and reactions to weather change, and lifelong postnasal drip? It is hard for me to believe my own thesis, that people should treat nasal issues before having turbinate reduction, when ostensibly there is nothing to treat but this vague "vasomotor rhinitis" which no one takes seriously?!! Frustrated and sleepless, Erika
I went off all potentially drying medication soon after implant surgery, and that seemed to help, while the weather was still cold and dry into June. I stopped Xyzal, Flonase, and then Rhinocort. I saw an allergist and came up totally negative for any allergy, although I had tested mildly allergic in the past. The allergist just thought I was sensitive - I guess meaning rhinitis? (I guess an allergy test before my turb reductions would not have deterred anyone from reducing them, after all. Another disturbing issue that makes me wonder about vasomotor rhinitis...) For some reason, I have still needed Breathe Right strips to sleep without snoring and/or waking up suddenly, breathless and gasping. I don't understand why I need Breathe Right strips to breathe in my sleep now that my nose is moister and fuller. It's not like there has been major blockage or swelling for a while, as far as I know. I am two months out now. Now my nostril with the septum side implant feels like it did when I agreed to my second turbinate reduction. It is swollen, the airway feels crazily convoluted and blocked, there is tons of mucus all day and night. I went back to using Flonase, which barely helped, so then I added Xyzal back. I was still so swollen and blocked, I added Sudafed, but I think that pushed me over the edge into jittery insomnia and too-dryness tonight. I fell asleep for an hour then awoke suddenly gasping. I realized my nose was swollen shut - from some kind of paradoxical dryness from all these drying meds plus the Breathe Right strips. So I am now doing my usual miserable insomnia bit, trying to come up with the right alchemy to breathe. Maybe with all these drying meds I can ditch the Breathe Right strips tonight? *My question is, finally: should I come back to Ohio and have the septum side implant reduced a bit? The humidity here is so high and will be for months now. WIll my implant shrink enough over the next few months that I should just be patient and wait it out? Also, what is up with needing the Breathe Right strips? Sorry so frustrated still. Falling and staying asleep has been very tricky. The weather change has really thrown me off, as well as my diagnosis as having no allergies. Then what causes all the swelling and reactions to weather change, and lifelong postnasal drip? It is hard for me to believe my own thesis, that people should treat nasal issues before having turbinate reduction, when ostensibly there is nothing to treat but this vague "vasomotor rhinitis" which no one takes seriously?!! Frustrated and sleepless, Erika