Why I Needed Sinus Surgery

I decided to get Sinus Surgery because I felt that my breathing severely affected my quality of living.  When I go to movie theatres I get fearful if the movie is too long because I'm scared my nose may get stuffy and I wouldn't be able to breath and enjoy the movie.  When I workout I cannot go 100% because I am gasping for air and dread going to bed because I know my entire body would be sore and wake up to the next morning with bags under my eyes due to my 3-4 hour of sleep.  I didn't even feel safe driving because if my nose starts to clog up when I drive my entire body starts to feel numb because I hyperventilate.  I no longer wanted to just relieve my symptoms anymore (see blog post below), I wanted to have a definite cure to my sinus problems.

I went to the ENT today and she referred me to Radiology to get a CT scan done.  1 week later I received the results as seen below:

So reading from the Radiographic impressions I had to do a lot of work on my sinuses to help relieve my pain.  I wrestled for 5 years throughout high school until first year of college, I noticed my breathing problems started first year of college.  I am assuming I may have obtained my deviated septum from wrestling. 

The strange thing is, my other ENT told me that my septum was not deviated and opted to just do turbinate coblation surgery (which was highly unsuccessful on its own).  So what I would do is make sure you pick a very competent ENT doctor, I read up yelp reviews on him recently and he had a series of bad reviews. 

Anyhow getting back on topic, this ENT's plan of action was the following:
1) Septoplasty (to fix my Deviated septum)

2) Turbinoplasty (to reduce my interior turbinate)

3) Balloon Sinuplasty (To open up all my sinuses)

4) Nasal Polyp removal


My next blog post will go into detail on how I prepared for my surgery.

Hope this allowed you to learn a little more of what and why Sinus surgery is sometimes necessary to improve breathing.

-David