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Same old sinus/allergy problems
by LMND, Dec 01, 2006 12:00AM
Seems we got locked out of our last forum - is everybody still the same?
Anyways, I heard about a girl (friend of a friend situation) with severe sinus problems. After going through the same hell we are all experiencing (tests, many doctors, no results, etc.) she found some specialists in Germany. They found out that her sinuses were filling up with liquid and had to manually drain them. She has to do this at least once a year apparently, but she can now function.
I don't know the details of this too much; but the point I am trying to make is that it really is a matter of finding the right doctor. But to get there, I guess we all have to go through the routine checks, experimentation with different medication, etc.
Hang in there.
I think you're right...a matter of finding the right Dr. I'm beginning to think we just have to cure ourselves. Had face pressure again last night and balance wasn't quite right. Early in the day I was normal. I get tired fast. May be my thyroid-which I'm supposed to go back for blood work this week again, but may have to wait until next week with work and all.
How are you doing?
I was on Zithromax starting 11-24 for 5 days, but it lasts in your system for 10 days. After about 7 days I started feeling much better, and here it is at the 11th day or so and I'm still fine. The last round of antibiotics helped me for about a month, but I'm hoping this will last longer of course. I also started garlic pills (odorless) last week, but I have seen such differing research on garlic I don't know if it really helps or not.
Because the antibiotic helped for now I haven't tried an ENT yet, but if symptoms come back I will call them first. Hope your symptoms get better, the dizziness and pain can be completely intolerable.
Something I want to check with everyone: do any of you also have tachycardia? I am starting to think that my dizziness is caused by tachycardia; of course what is causing the tachycardia is another thing. For the past 3 months since I have been suffering from these symptoms, my resting heart rate has been between 90-100bpm. I am really starting to wonder whether there are multiple things going on with my body, tooth or sinus infection, rhinitis (which limits my breathing and therefore increases the heart rate), allergies, etc. rather than one big disease.
I did get a prescription for ativan in case I am making things worse by panicking about the dizziness. Now I feel drunk but am relaxed about it. The only problem: I think people are starting to think I am actually drunk!
Hope everyone is doing better.
First off, being diagnosed with a sinus infection is a 50/50 bet at best. My allergist told me recently that you diagnose a sinus infection by the symptoms, and that there is no real way to tell without getting a sample of the sinus fluid. A team of doctors did research in which they took samples of sinus gunk from a certain # of people, and only about 50% of the people showing symptoms of an infection actually had an infection, and the other 50% that had an infection didn't show any signs at all.
Anyway, I started getting allergy shots after a million different tests/doctors (heart ultrasound, EEG, EKG, etc). This was ultimately the thing that helped the most. I found that my dizziness was directly related to the amount of pressure I felt in my sinuses, and that the further along I got in my shots, the less pressure I felt and the better I felt. I also started using Nasonex, which I believe helped also.
I stopped taking allergy shots 6 months ago, and recently have started feeling the dizziness again. I got a pretty bad cold last weekend, and have been VERY dizzy. I'm scheduled to go back on the shots in an effort to ease the dizziness this coming spring.
If you have allergies, and your dizzy from sinus pressure and congestion, seriously consider getting allergy shots!