Just venting my frustration!
I jsut have to rant a bit, just because my sleep is worse since my third surgery. Not to mention the extreme dryness in my mouth has cause a lot of social inhibition. what bugs me is this lack of carelessness that has brought me to this day. I'm starting to realize, aside from the last two needless surgery, is this lack of knowledge the ENTs have. I believe I have some sort of chronic rhinitis on my right nasal over a decade ago, and the docs didn't even suggest nasal irrigation or were very aware of other products to help out with my problem. Even after when I went back complaining after the surgery the problem still persist, he finally suggested using a syringe for nasal irrigation. A syringe barely has any pressure. NeilMed products have been around since 2000, but these doctors aren't kept up to the la-*test*-('") products, nor surgical damage reported by patients. I thought they have conferences every year, what do they do, drink pina colada by the pool. The Neilmed Sinus Rinse has been a great tremendous temporary relief since I discovered them half a year ago, since I now have Rhinitis Sicca as a result of my last surgery. It's cheaper that Dr.Grossan machine and it's far better than a syringe. I honestly believe that Neilmed Nasal Rinse could have ease a lot of my suffering if I knew about this product earlier on. I doubt that the product alone could have cured my problem, but would likely save me from going ahead with possibly 2nd surgery and mostly likely 3rd surgery.

Yes, I agree. Although I have woken up to this reality many years ago already, I still have a tough time accepting that although one would expect that doctors, like perhaps people of clergy, would be exceptionally caring and empathic human beings, not to mention more intelligent than most, I discover that in many cases doctors do not differ or stand out on any of these criterion, and even do worse than others as far as empathy is concerned, as they seem to think that detaching themselves from normal human emotions of empathy makes them better professionals, which of course is a load of BS, but sadly they only realize that after they grow old and have come to recognise their mistakes as they reflect back, and realize that this detachment is a double edged sword - they think it saves them from caring about too many patients, but they end up not being able to switch it back on in their personal lives and therefore pay a heavy price behaving like that. What goes around comes around, but most people, doctors included, realize that only way too late. I have always thought that professionals who are given a license by society to handle human lives should have a significant period in their training where they are forced to experience first hand what it feels like to be in the shoes of their clients. Clinical psychologists for example, have to go through a long term (usually a few years) of therapy as patients. However - this is not demanded of psychiatrists for some odd reason... I believe that in order to complete medical school it should be mandatory that doctors go through a two week "hell session" in which they are strapped down to a bed as a patient in an intensive care unit, bandaged from foot to head, with a catheter, diapers and Zonda tube through their nose for food, with drips fixed in both arms and hooked up to monitors that blip constantly. Only when they lay there like that, completely helpless and at the mercy of the hospital's staff, will they get a glimpse of what it means to be a patient with a chronic disability. I have to listen to so many of them lean back in their cushy chairs behind their big executive tables and their plasma computer screens and tell me that it's all an issue of mind over matter, that I sometimes have to pinch myself to remind myself that I just visited a clinical doctor and not some fake guru in some pretentious ashram...

Mind over matter really? LOL Uhmm someone might want to tell them the 60's died along time ago. If it really was mind over matter we wouldn't need doctors we'd need metaphycians lol. I still remember asking the doctor about the pulsating irragation and he said stay away from it. I think the problem is two fold, one --doctors become doctors for prestiege not to be healers I think many of them get offened at the idea that medicine is a service industry and 2--there is no financial incentive for better patients, the sicker you are the more money they make, no wonder they screw up so much 8)

The problem is the individual has to care about truth. If an individual takes no pleasure in understanding but loves to gives his opinion, he can cause lots of harm. A doctor might have intelligence but he might not care about truth. The doctor that is not into truth can still make money still have approval, control. It is easy for ENS doctors to know that they shouldnt touch turbinates, only under extreme conditions, and only using the most conservative techniques with the lowest energy and only after alternatives are exhausted and people are told of the risks, but first they have to be into truth. There are still ENT doctors who think turbinectomies are safe, why is that because they dont care about truth, they probably are intelligent since they finished med school but truth is not important for them. My doctor with my destroyed life(well hopefully not its only been one month) will he reevaluate turbinate surgery probably not, why? he isnt into truth, or doesnt care.

too bad that doctors today aren't demanded to take the ancient oaths that with-stood the -*test*-('") of time and served humanity well for thousands of years, like the Maimonides oath, written by Rabbi Moses son of Maimonides, the famous philosopher and physician of the 12th century: THE OATH OF MAIMONIDES "The eternal providence has appointed me to watch over the life and health of Thy creatures. May the love for my art actuate me at all time; may neither avarice nor miserliness, nor thirst for glory or for a great reputation engage my mind; for the enemies of truth and philanthropy could easily deceive me and make me forgetful of my lofty aim of doing good to Thy children. May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain. Grant me the strength, time and opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend its domain; for knowledge is immense and the spirit of man can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements. Today he can discover his errors of yesterday and tomorrow he can obtain a new light on what he thinks himself sure of today. Oh, God, Thou has appointed me to watch over the life and death of Thy creatures; here am I ready for my vocation and now I turn unto my calling."

doctors back then even from ancient times can be subject to death if they misoperate on people. Here in Canada, I find that there is this protectionist metality toward doctors, because there's far less here than in the states. A friend of my brother, his mother was badly operated on and left completely immobile and doesn't have much longer to live. He was going to sue, and the doctor said he has back up from other doctors he didn't do anything wrong. How could an operation instead of improving makes matter worse, just like my case. I would have been content if nothing changed, instead of gettng worse.

I am really moved by that oath. The profession has become perverted by greed and ego considerations and self-interest. Not all doctors are infected by this, certainly not, but I am beginning to see that many of them are.

I just realize what I likely had before my very first surgery, Chronic Sinusitis, because I exhibit all those symptoms, and nasal irrigation is the most prescribed no medical treatment. I'm just getting angrier just knowing all these infos. So I had my first turbinectomy, nothing was resolved, but at least I was producing ample of mucus and had pretty much no halitosis. These so called doctors couldn't suggest nasal irrigation to me? Are they so eager to get their payment each time they perform a surgery. I have literally experience gradual Rhinitis Sicca since my third surgery. Right after the surgery, I could barely breath through the crusting, but once I blew the crusting loose in a week and a half, I breath ok, aside from the chronic infammation on my right side that was never resolved. But, since a year and a half ago, I started noticing the dryness growing. I am now just so dry and congested, and I'm loosing far more sleep. I do nasal irrigation before I sleep. Saline jelly and Nozoil doesn't seem to work when I go to sleep. So, I always use the nasal mist spray the moisten the passage whenever I wake up. Its the only method that can put me back to sleep at ease. I still wake up as a zombie. In the last two years, I realize my job isn't keeping up with the skyrocketing rent. My rent literally increased a hundred fifty this year alone, and I need to find a new job. The chaos these surgery has caused, I'm so tired in the day. I'm not so sure I can hold down two jobs, let alone hold down one job without making mistakes because of my increasing forgetfulness. This madness just never ends.