Has anyone here experienced, or know of anyone who has experienced, unilateral empty nose? That is, one side is pretty much OK, but the other is full-blown.
My left side has recovered to a tolerable point, but my right is way more open overall and a lot more bothersome. For example, I often wake up feeling my left side totally shut from the nasal cycle, but very rarely do I get the same feeling on the right side. Much more often I wake up with the right side all open and dried out.
My concern is: will this asymmetry get better or worse over time? I see a lot of cases of unilateral empty nose in the scientific literature. For example:

from: http://synapse.koreamed.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3342/kjorl-hns.2014.57.4.262&vmode=PUBREADER#!po=50.0000
and also check out the CT on page 5 of:
http://medicine.missouri.edu/ent/uploads/Empty-Nose-Syndrome.pdf
Unless the doctor was blind as a bat, I sorta doubt these people were left like that. Maybe after the operation the difference was tiny, but that small difference was the straw that broke the camel's back and the slightly more open side slowly but surely succumbed to atrophy, becoming more open, and eventually totally ruined after a number of years.
Is that how it happens? Or could happen?
My left side has recovered to a tolerable point, but my right is way more open overall and a lot more bothersome. For example, I often wake up feeling my left side totally shut from the nasal cycle, but very rarely do I get the same feeling on the right side. Much more often I wake up with the right side all open and dried out.
My concern is: will this asymmetry get better or worse over time? I see a lot of cases of unilateral empty nose in the scientific literature. For example:

from: http://synapse.koreamed.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3342/kjorl-hns.2014.57.4.262&vmode=PUBREADER#!po=50.0000
and also check out the CT on page 5 of:
http://medicine.missouri.edu/ent/uploads/Empty-Nose-Syndrome.pdf
Unless the doctor was blind as a bat, I sorta doubt these people were left like that. Maybe after the operation the difference was tiny, but that small difference was the straw that broke the camel's back and the slightly more open side slowly but surely succumbed to atrophy, becoming more open, and eventually totally ruined after a number of years.
Is that how it happens? Or could happen?
