Frontal Sinus pain due to mold/infection?

[Shermanoaks]

I am writing for my husband because he is fed up. He has been dealing with major sinus pain for over a year now and it has really effected his life. He is in pain everyday. He has been on many antibiotics (too many), had sinus surgery, has been on steroids and now a trial drug for anti-mold. Does anybody have any experience with a similar condition? Looking for support and options.

[tcraver]

I too have had increasing pain in the upper front roof of my mouth. It was hard to tell actually if it was a tooth or pressure related to sinus problems. The dentist couldn't find anything at all so I went to a specialist...turns out that I have staph infection in my nose and mold growing in there too...I do not know yet what kind of mold but after searching the internet I guess it is not all that uncommon...we will see what the doctor reccommends for the mold...I just finished a 10 day prescription of Augmenten but I can still smell an odor in my nose...It drove me crazy when I first smelled the odor but now I know it must be the mold!

[friggy]

You've pretty much done all the right things, and like your husband, I once had a condition that resisted everything.  Out of frustration, I developed the flip-turn sinus flush.  If your husband has tried a saline irrigation, it's not going to do anything for a frontal infection, because gravity prevents the saline from reaching that high up in the sinuses.  The flip-turn actually uses gravity to get saline there.

The flush works best for bacterial infections, but after I finally got rid of it, I slept in a moldy cabin on a 5th grade camp week, and got a mold infection.  It was actually more difficult to flush out, because the mucus was clear and wasn't giving much feedback the way yellow mucus does.  Of course, there's about 40 different fungi or mold that can grow there, so there's not much of a guarantee I can give you.

http://www.medhelp.org/user_journals/show/2322
The Flip-Turn Sinus Flush is mildly risky, because you have to bend over to do it, preferably in a shower, but you can also do it outside on soft ground. If your husband is over 55 or is worried about falling, there's a reverse flush (chapter 13) that carries less risk.

The flip-turn kind of ties into research done by the Mayo Clinic.  The same team is also connected to the discovery of the widespread presence of fungus or mold in sinus infections, and may possibly be involved in the trial anti-mold drug. Please let us know how well that works.

Good luck