San Francisco
Hi All I have noticed many people posting on this forum that are from the USA are from dry and cold (winter) and hot (summer) climate areas. I am in San Francisco at the moment and the air is cool but very moist from the pacific ocean breezes and I am finding that it seems to have positive affects on my nasal insides. The climate here is also very moderate - it stays the same most of the year around. The other day, there was even little droplets of moisture floating in the air like a fine mist. Chris' book (pg 33, paragraph 2, last sentance) also hypothesises that this could be ideal conditions for sufferers. In support of this I dont recall seeing or hearing of anyone from San Fran on this forum. Can anyone add any thoughts to this? is anyone here from SF or had the same experience or thoughts either here or elsewhere?

I'm in NY, and from VA, and both are humid in the summer (although pretty hot, or at least they used to be before the weather got freaky from GW?). After implants, I am having less dryness than winter, but strangely, in humidity the inside of my nose just swells shut. Or it feels that way - I am sure any ENT would inspect and say it is "wide open." This is weird, but now after implants, instead of total raw dryness and dried out, near-solid mucus, I have semi-viscous wet mucus that still gets stuck in the back...but it takes up more room since it contains moisture. Add the implants, and some tissue swelling from humidity, and I feel quite congested. Moisture is always better than raw dryness and frequent nosebleeds, which I had pre-implants. Anyway, it is just weird how every stage of ENS is different but somehow equally full of challenges and different physical problems. And now that I can parse out the various paradoxical problems form having been through many stages of ENS (very mild, mild, medium)...it is just mind boggling that it took this much experimentation with suffering to understand. THe implants have "rewound" me to the last annoying but different stage, where I was bothered by the humidity. RRRR. It makes me so mad. It's like being in my own ongoing freaking rehab for relearning how to breathe. It pisses me off that the statute of limitations is so short for something that takes years to figure out has even happened, because you have to put yourself through your own nasal medical school/anatomy lab before you even understand. I guess I am glad for the humidity and of course the implants, but I see how inevitable it was that I screwed up my nose further and further, because each stage of ENS was different and problematic. So of course I and many of us were talked into procedure after procedure on the turbinates, because it was not an obvious progression of problems. It is just odd that my nose felt more spacious for air when it was unhealthier and dryer, before implants. I know they are not all healed yet, and that in winter I will be glad i have them, because that was my worst time. But now in heat and high humidity, I really feel congested and the wetter thick mucus takes up more room in the swollen nasal tissue. This whole thing is one paradox after the next of ill-paired symptoms. I just don't get why doctors did not predict this or understand it after many complaints. I am thinking that med school must hinge on route memorization instead of analysis.