I can't find my original post. About a week ago I had asked if anyone had
any experience with sphenoid sinus infections. The subject was HELP!!!
After a final round of antibiotics, which was the fourth, 3
antibiotic injections, 2 steroid injections, 2 rounds of meds for yeast
infections (result of all the antibiotics) my GP sent me to a ENT doctor. His
words were that he would probably "drill out" my sphenoid sinus. I was sick
with panic.
I saw the ENT doctor a couple of days ago. He sprayed this awful medicine
in my nostrils that deadened my entire head and then rammed a 10 foot tube
(well, not quite that long, but it felt like it) with a camera on it up through
the base of my skull around the sphenoid sinus (I started panicking
thinking I couldn't breathe and sweating like a big horse). He said he wasn't
sure that I ever had a sinus infection and that all my sinuses looked good. He
thinks what the radiologist saw on the CT scan was where they had to patch the
area with my own body fat when I had the pituitary surgery. I then
remembered how they thought I had another tumor when I had my first MRI at home
because of it.
I still have my original problem which is severe headaches. I had
not had them since my pituitary surgery. When I awoke in the recovery room it
was such a relief for them to be gone.
I am so tired of seeing doctors. I see 4 regularly plus a physical
therapist twice a week.
I just needed to scream once and get this off my chest. Thanks to all for
listening!
Cindie | 