QUESITON 1
I complained in September to my ENT surgeon that I was breathing too much air. He told me not to focus on it. Well, I got the records and the notes from that day were
"patient complains of episodes where sometimes she can get too much air through her nose..."
In his October notes, when I think I had an infection he wrote"
"The right side was widely patent. On the left side there was an adhesion between the middle turbinate and lateral wall".
Incidentally, the rt side is where I have the severe nasal valve collapse and the septum returned to bad place. My left feels widely open!
QUESTION- is the description "widely patent" ever used to describe the nose aside from situations of atrophic rhinitis?
( I googled the term and only found it I conjunction with atrophy or hypotrophy of the mucosa)
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QUESTION 2
My new ENT clinical notes from a few weeks ago say:
Rightward septal deviation. Midline to rightward anterior nasal septum. Obstruction on the right with widely opened sphenoid sinus osteum.
He also comments on impression "possibly atrophic rhinitis".
QUESTION - is the widely opened sphnoid sinus osteum from the surgery or is it an ENS development?
I am trying to find out what is going on with my situation.
thanks
I complained in September to my ENT surgeon that I was breathing too much air. He told me not to focus on it. Well, I got the records and the notes from that day were
"patient complains of episodes where sometimes she can get too much air through her nose..."
In his October notes, when I think I had an infection he wrote"
"The right side was widely patent. On the left side there was an adhesion between the middle turbinate and lateral wall".
Incidentally, the rt side is where I have the severe nasal valve collapse and the septum returned to bad place. My left feels widely open!
QUESTION- is the description "widely patent" ever used to describe the nose aside from situations of atrophic rhinitis?
( I googled the term and only found it I conjunction with atrophy or hypotrophy of the mucosa)
- - - - - - - - - -
QUESTION 2
My new ENT clinical notes from a few weeks ago say:
Rightward septal deviation. Midline to rightward anterior nasal septum. Obstruction on the right with widely opened sphenoid sinus osteum.
He also comments on impression "possibly atrophic rhinitis".
QUESTION - is the widely opened sphnoid sinus osteum from the surgery or is it an ENS development?
I am trying to find out what is going on with my situation.
thanks
