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[yagathai]

At work. Throat still hurts and my sinuses are an everfull pitcher of snot. Send throat spray and a small but powerful vacuum cleaner, stat!

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[devotdsatellite.livejournal.com]

have you been evaluated by an ent? i only ask cos getting my tonsils out was life changing for me.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

I have thought about it. When did you get it done?

[devotdsatellite.livejournal.com]

march 2007. i did it at penn. with my insurance thru penn (i think you work there?) the total cost was about 100 bucks. the recovery is a bitch and half about 2 weeks, but it dramatically changed my quality of life. no more sore throats, no more constant strep, less colds.

[lawbabeak.livejournal.com]

I like Dr. Kearney (http://www.pennmedicine.org/Wagform/MainPage.aspx?config=provider&P=PP&ID=1276). His office is across the street from Pennsylvania Hospital near 8th & Spruce (all of which is in the HUP system). He did both my sinus surgeries (I grow polyps like a champ) and I've been really happy with his approach to treatment. He can be a bit overbooked - sometimes he's right on time for an appointment, sometimes he's two hours late - but I'd say his expertise is worth it. And his staff are really cool.

My first sinus surgery took about two weeks to recover from - I had so much crap in my head, bones in my face were bending. But I probably could have gone back to work a couple days after my second.

He's a nose and throat guy, so he could handle sinus or tonsils.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

So you're saying I should waterboard myself?

[lawbabeak.livejournal.com]

My mom resisted using her Neti pot for years, positive she would think she was drowning herself. She called me last winter, to proudly crow she had flushed her sinuses and not died.

You want to use salt that is not iodized. It is also helpful to add a touch of baking soda - it seems to make the water flow more comfortably, and was in the recipe my nose doc gave me. Water should be warm but not hot. Hot/cold hurts like a bitch - especially since you're top sinus's top is your brain pan's bottom. If you've got radiator heat, mix up water, salt, and baking soda in a plastic bottle and leave it on the radiator, then fill your Neti pot from that. Otherwise, careful nuking will also work.