I can't believe it's been half a year! It went by quickly enough, in the delirium of exhasution while i adjusted to the implants. The implant into the turbinate is wonderful - my nose on that side feels much healthier, fuller, less dry, no nosebleeds. Almost normal. If you have anything left of a turbinate that can be implanted into, do it. It won't reverse symptoms but it will reduce them without any more side effects....
...Like I am still having with the septum implant. This one narrowed my airway, the one that feels constricted even if it is a mile wide open...but the implant does touch the lateral wall, still, even after one reduction. I am going to go back in month to reduce again, I think. We'll see if things change in the colder air, but it is already drier and colder here and I am still whistling through that side all day. I have a major problem with mucus, and in the narrow space, it just gets stuck. Yes, the mucus is less dry, but it is still somewhat solid and likes to sit and blockade my airway until I reverse-vacuum it out the back by sucking hard enough. Really an enjoyable daily ritual...I think I need a bit more room. The other side is open enough that mucus washes itself back but not so open that the nostril is dry, crusty, and painful all day.
Glad I did the implants, for sure. Thank god for Dr Houser. Even my Sleep Doc here does not seem to understand that when your nose dries out, it just shuts off and you start mouth breathing - which is as bad as apnea.
Having more tissue just keeps things happier in my nose - I used to have daily nosebleeds just from irrigating. I need to irrigate because of my mucus problem. Yup, I am the one with NO allergies but random pounds of mucus from Vasomotor Rhinitis, or Medically Nothing in Response to being Oversensitive to Everything.
I am getting, hopefully if insurance ok's, a full face sleepmask CPAP machine. Will report on its helpfulness.
I still wake up once a night dry as the desert and somewhat blocked. Somehow it is better than before implants. I had the same problem then but much worse. And the mucus was so much drier and stuck like crazy glue from being so dry. SO things have improved.
Later! hang in there and get implants!
...Like I am still having with the septum implant. This one narrowed my airway, the one that feels constricted even if it is a mile wide open...but the implant does touch the lateral wall, still, even after one reduction. I am going to go back in month to reduce again, I think. We'll see if things change in the colder air, but it is already drier and colder here and I am still whistling through that side all day. I have a major problem with mucus, and in the narrow space, it just gets stuck. Yes, the mucus is less dry, but it is still somewhat solid and likes to sit and blockade my airway until I reverse-vacuum it out the back by sucking hard enough. Really an enjoyable daily ritual...I think I need a bit more room. The other side is open enough that mucus washes itself back but not so open that the nostril is dry, crusty, and painful all day.
Glad I did the implants, for sure. Thank god for Dr Houser. Even my Sleep Doc here does not seem to understand that when your nose dries out, it just shuts off and you start mouth breathing - which is as bad as apnea.
Having more tissue just keeps things happier in my nose - I used to have daily nosebleeds just from irrigating. I need to irrigate because of my mucus problem. Yup, I am the one with NO allergies but random pounds of mucus from Vasomotor Rhinitis, or Medically Nothing in Response to being Oversensitive to Everything.
I am getting, hopefully if insurance ok's, a full face sleepmask CPAP machine. Will report on its helpfulness.
I still wake up once a night dry as the desert and somewhat blocked. Somehow it is better than before implants. I had the same problem then but much worse. And the mucus was so much drier and stuck like crazy glue from being so dry. SO things have improved.
Later! hang in there and get implants!
