Can someone help provide me from info please?!?

[CanadianGal33]

I've been having some bizarre head syptoms for nine months now. To make a long story short been to an ENT and he did a nasal examination and told me no infection. He also did a CT scan...results were back today which he had a look at and said i indeed to have some mild sinus disease. He didn't seem very worried about this and said he wouldn't recommend surgery or anything drastic and basically told me it would not be causing my syptoms. Anyone have any experience with this? Is this something i should be worried about??  Shouldn't he have given me an antibiodic or something?? My syptoms are on and off numbness in my face..burning and throbbing in left side of face and head (worse in the cold)..no stuffy nose or discharge..i'm just so confused! Nobody can tell me what's wrong and i'm getting REALLY frustrated!

[Samguil]

Allergy is not necessarly stuffy nose. Allergy means having an immune response (defense system) to just about any material. The best example I can give you of  an allergy without stuffy nose is a skin allergy. So some people skin turn red or growth blimps whenever there are expose to a material, like metal,copper or other stuff. As I say , all of this talk does not resolve your own problem unfortunately. But it could perhapds help to get on a potentially good track.

[CanadianGal33]

It could be some sort of allergy i guess...i do have allergies to dogs and dust...my nose isn't running or stuffy though, that's the confusing part. I thought with all sinus issues you'd have a stuffy or runny nose.  I don't live with an air conditioner....it's every air conditioner or even cold air.  It seems after breathing in cold air for a while my head burns and stings. The only think i could think is it would be sinuses because that's where the air would enter my head.  I'm so worried about this speading either to my skull or brain. that's the hardest part. It's been 9 months so it's had to do some serious damage by now you would think.  And from what i read it seems they can tell the difference between fungal and bacterial infections on a CT scan.  He didn't say infection, just mild to moderate sinus disease whatever that means!  I'm just so confused and so very frustated and scared.  And tired of feeling like this...the stinging in my head is the worst...the numbness i could take.  I wish it would go back to numbness even though at the time i hated that also.

[Samguil]

You were right; the ENT test would probably see a fungal infection, I presume.
So if it's not infection, maybe it's a a severe allergy. I don't want to overfocuse on the whole fungal issue; but  the air conditioner caught my attention. I have read reports of people with severe numbness, burning near the eyes after being exposed to Cladosporium. Have a look here: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:91kPCLF1CncJ:www.allergyconsumerreview.com/mold-testing.html+house+basement+Cladosporium+allergy+burning+eyes&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

Cladosporium is known to growth inside air conditioner. A quick way to know whether it would be a fungal allergy related  to the air conditioner would be by being shortly exposed to a brand new air conditioner that has none in it. If the cold air is still there but the sens of numbness is gone, it could mean something.

[Samguil]

I am doing some research. I will come back to you soon CanadianGal33. Let's keep hope.

Samguil

[CanadianGal33]

No i haven't been working near any fruit or any vegetables at all.  If it was fungus wouldn't they be able to tell that from the sinus CT scan i had?  Can fungal infections move to brain like bacterial can? That's my worst fear is they won't diagnose this soon enough and it'll be too late.  I'm not sure where i would have gotten a fungal infection...i'm praying that that isn't it.

[Samguil]

Hi CanadianGal33; I have my own myoclonus post but just read yours and realize your situation is much worst then mine. I would go along with Friggy and  suggest that this could possibly be a fungal infection in the sinus. May I ask you the following question;  You said you have had this for 9 months; have you been working with vegetables or fruits in the soil last summer or last fall?  The reason why I ask this is because there is a notorious class of fungus called rhyzopus which are often found in the soil, or rotten fruit  and can cause serious  head inflammation. Altough I have not learned this in my class, I suspect that dirty  hands in contact with the nose and the lower sinus is a good mean of transmission. I don't know if friggy has something to add to that.