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Old 09-02-2012, 03:52 PM   #16
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Yeah foot, a bit on the crusty yellow lymph side of things. Now I've become convinced that there's a blood clot lodged on the left (worse) side, since I have the impression that all the ones I've dislodged have come from the right. If I can just loosen it out of there... then I'd have even more disgusting things to describe to you all.
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Old 09-02-2012, 04:00 PM   #17
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...and I keep vomiting all the blood I'm swallowing...
Well, at least you know you're not a vampire.
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Old 09-02-2012, 04:05 PM   #18
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Time to FESS UP

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my nose.

Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery, that is. I've had the same surgery you had Clodfobble, and I'm dying to have it again. It is the *first thing* on my list to treat myself to once I have health insurance again.

In Jun 2009 I was at work and I had a headache that turned into a toothache that turned into an volcano of an abscessed tooth erupting fiery gushers of pain through my skull and jaw. This turned out to be an incorrect self diagnosis, so it should be read for illustrative purposes only. It turns out I had a seriously impacted (dunno if that's the right word) sinus on the left side, the solution for which was the rotorooter procedure you talked about.

I had an MRI done which revealed a sinus cavity completely full, and sealed, a deviated septum, and hypertrophied turbinates. The plan was to give me a general anesthetic, and through my nose clean out the plug and the sinus, and resection my turbinates (resection is surgery speak for cut away some of). As far as I know, this was done. The anesthesiologist had me count back from 100, 99, 98, 97, why am I in the recovery room and what have you done with my limbs?.

I got a ride home because I was in no pain, and similarly in no condition to drive, thanks to the miracle of modern pharmaceuticals. I had instructions about after care which I also disregarded probably for the same reason I couldn't drive. Anyhow. I too had the packing in my nose about halfway to the back of my skull, regular slow steady bleeding dripping, ugh. No vomiting though, thankfully. Your experience sounds truly horrible, so sorry. I eventually took the plugs out, too gross to describe accurately. I was very, very sore for days, though I took my medicine faithfully.

One of the aftercare steps I read about but didn't follow to my detriment was the nasal lavage using a bottle like this: NeilMed Sinus Rinse. I like the squeeze bottle style as opposed to the gravity feed style. I didn't use it regularly like I should have. This, I believe, was a big mistake. Clodfobble, if you have a device like this (and your after care instructions say so!) please don't neglect this part. I do it much more frequently now, and I love it.
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Old 09-02-2012, 06:22 PM   #19
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I've been using it, I think maybe even too much? Everything is very wet in there, I can't get anything to drain. It's like there are giant sponges inside my face, and every time I irrigate I just swell them up further. It has occurred to me that maybe there is, in fact, extra packing in there, lost track of during one of the three procedures. I'm also running a slight temperature at this point, though I am taking my antibiotics faithfully. Long story short, I want to die, basically.
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Old 09-02-2012, 06:38 PM   #20
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Sounds totally awful Clod. I hope you feel much better soon. xx
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Old 09-02-2012, 06:50 PM   #21
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Sinus surgery is the worst ... sorry this is so awful for you, Clod. Hope things improve dramatically in the next few hours ...
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Old 09-02-2012, 08:50 PM   #22
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Sorry Clod! Feel better and make sure they get all the packing out if you suspect there's some in there! You don't want that low temperature turning into a serious infection in your head from forgotten packing goo
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Old 09-02-2012, 11:14 PM   #23
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Yeah, there's already a followup appointment on the schedule for Thursday, so presumably anything they might have left in there will be found then. Dinner did cause some very slight movement of stuff down and out, so I might--MIGHT--be willing to live until tomorrow and see how things pan out. In another week I'll probably be just like BigV and everyone else who told me this was the greatest thing they'd ever done. I hope I hope I hope...
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Old 09-03-2012, 01:11 AM   #24
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If you don't think you can wait until Thursday, I've got a Wet/Dry Shop-Vac raring to go.
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Old 09-03-2012, 01:18 AM   #25
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Oh Clod, that sounds very sucky. If you do get the blood out the eyes things, you will be the coolest kid on the block - very True Blood!!

Fingers crossed you will be in your happy place tomorrow!!
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Old 09-03-2012, 07:07 AM   #26
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Call the doctor. I'm worried about the "face swelling up more" thing.

and the fever.
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Old 09-03-2012, 10:47 AM   #27
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It's okay Bri, there was some more drainage during the night, and the fever is gone this morning. Now mostly I'm just exhausted. We are speculating that this is where I was supposed to be on day one, had I had the normal one operation instead of three back-to-back. If that's the case, I should expect another 2-3 days like today, and then steady improvement from there.

You know, just in time for Friday, and another weekend with my stepkids.
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Old 09-03-2012, 01:07 PM   #28
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Your finger is so not sorry about your nose.

What do you do when your nose goes on strike?

Picket!

Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Try the nose goblins; they're salty and have a slight metallic taste
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Old 09-03-2012, 02:24 PM   #29
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Sorry you are going through all this Clod! I definitely hope you see the improvement you want!
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Old 09-03-2012, 03:37 PM   #30
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Oooow, damn. Wish I was closer, I couldn't make it better but could make you not care.
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