maxillary sinus surgery

[ukjohn]

my new ent has reccomended a 2nd sinus surgery. ive been getting pain in my  maxillary sinuses, he said he will make new drainage holes by removing bone from inside my nose. is this normal and safe??? i dont like the idea of new holes being made!!!!

also he is redoing my septoplasty, he said that he wont need to use packng, is this nomal???

thanks

[National Jewish Health]

Those may be perfectly reasonable recommendations but I cannot comment without medical records and radiographic studies.  About 10% of patients will benefit from "re-do" surgery in select cases.

[beta1]

I have had 4 sinus surgeries in the last four years....the ent opened up the windows  and guess what, nothing seemed to help, within a month I was right back to infections with pseudonomas, strep and staph!!!!!!   I have used every antibiotic in the book plus.

Here was the solution:  I demanded a culture be sent to Mayo Clinic who have a new staining tool for diagnosis of culture......guess what,   for over four years I was being treated for the wrong thing...it was an Alternaria fungal infection....all the drugs, lavages, cleaning out did absolutely nothing but make the problem worse.  I went to an infectious disease specialist and now take a low dose of prednisone, nasal steroid, and the new drug voriconazole, and anti fungal systemic....I will follow this up with amphotericin B for at least 3 months.  

It really seems to be working.      See an infectious disease specialist after you get the culture taken.
Good luck