Depression / tiredness

[arias]

I'd like to know a little more about the symptoms of a deviated septum.  I've been suffering from several symptoms for years, and it seems hard to believe all of them come from a deviated septum.  My symptoms are: swollen nose when sleeping (inside part of nostrils, which tends to desappear once I wake up), strong headaches when I wake up and at other times of the day, bleeding nose, rings under the eyes, "dried" irrited eyes.  

Most of all, I've been suffering from tiredness all these years.  Sometimes I feel my legs as if I had walked a thousand miles, I feel sleepy througout the day, but at night I feel fine.  I also tend to get dizzy, but not much.  I feel my mind gets tired, too.  Finally, I also feel depressed, and maybe this is the saddest part.  This has been affecting my private and social life.  Friends say I'm forgetful, absentminded, and passive, but I feel this is part of my problem.  Sometimes I just feel I wanna cry.  It's been for years.  I went to an otorhino lately and he said I had to undergo surgery.  It's hard to believe my nose is causing all this, but when I think it's a breathing problem, I feel it's possible. I would like to have the opinion of another doctor so I convince myself and go on with the surgery.  I wouldn't like to spend so much money and then realize all this was not caused by a deviated septum.
PLEASE ADVISE ME!!!

[National Jewish]

It is certainly possible that a significantly deviated septum can cause all the items you have listed in your first paragraph. As far as what you describe in the second paragraph, these really depend on lots of factors that may or may not have anything to do with the deviated septum. There is no direct relationship between a deviated septum and these other symptoms. However, how people handle medical problems varies a great deal and therefore, it is not possible from your note alone to answer your question.

[needabreak]

One more thing...I'm having the dry, irritated eye thing going on, also...so much so, that sometimes I can't even watch TV or read a book.  If anyone knows what is up with this, please let us know.  I wear contacts and asked my eye doctor if you can develop an allergy to contacts but he said no.  I've heard elsewhere that you can, so...???