BobbyT wrote:
I was wondering if I could hear some of your stories about how your ENS has progressed as you've gotten further away from your surgeries.

In general, has it gotten better or gotten worse with the years?

Was your breathing uncomfortable immediately or did it take a few years to develop symptoms? If so, how many years?

And when it got worse, did it come on all of a sudden or was it more gradual?

Have some symptoms diminished while others have improved? Which ones?

I'm just trying to see if there are any general trends. (I know these are all to some extent dependent on how the turbinate surgery was performed and how much was resected.) Feel free to address questions I didn't explicitly ask too. Thanks!

 

definitely better, oct 2014 my quality of life was really low.

took 1year to get severe.

it was gradual but I didn't even know what was wrong with me. I didn't even realize it when my quality of life dropped.

suffocation diminished. sense of smell improved. no longer feel like a zombie. still issues with not getting into deep sleep. some hypersensitvity to smell. it fluctuates with nasal cycle. sometimes my nasal breathing feels 100% but doesn't last. at times there is little resistence.

I feel like harmful fumes may have damaged some of the new nerves I have grown. need another injection but can't afford.