Sphenoid sinusitis for one year now.

I am getting ready to have the latest sinus procedure done.. It's a balloon sinuplasty and they will clean my sinus's and insert steriods.. My sphenoid sinus is all messed up. I have had 3 sinus surgeries, and 3 balloons all in the last 5 years. This next balloon with the steroids ect- will be my 6th procedure. Sphenoid Sinusitus is hard to diagnose. Don't let it go! I can't sleep at all.. For 3 years I dread sleeping. Good Luck to everyone dealing with this dreadful disease.

I've been battling chronic rhinosinusitis for the last 3 + years. All 8 of my sinus' became infected over a 10 year period prior to me seeking medical help. After 4 failed surgeries, and countless antibiotics that did nothing but strengthen the bacterial cell and create a biofilm, I started doing my own research. That's when I found out about the link between sinus disease and vitamin d deficiency. There is a proven link, google it, between why antibiotics fail to kill sinus infections and not having vitamin d stored in your body. I started taking 20,000 iu of vitamin d3 daily, then dropped down to 10,000 iu after a blood test showed my body had plenty of D in it. Low and behold...no more sinus infection, crs, pnd, headaches, nausea, weakness...

Probiotics are a must take after a course of antibiotics. The drugs kill off all the essential good bacteria leaving the tissue ripe for reinfection by the bad bacteria. The probiotics colonize the tissue and make it so the bad bacteria cannot come back. Lactobacillus Sakei is supposed to be the best probiotic to take, but I had trouble finding it. Finally found it, made by Innovix Labs, on Amazon called Multi Strain Probiotic Broad Spectrum w 26 types of bacteria. Swallowing probiotics does nothing for sinonasal disease, you have to pour the capsule into your sinus so the bacteria go directly into the paranasal sinus'.

The combination of vitamin d, best form of D is D3, and probiotics worked wonders but didn't go all the way in fighting the bacteria. I needed something else...Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo. 1/2 teaspoon per 8 oz of saline solution. be careful with the baby shampoo, it can affect your sense of smell- most common is a temporary loss of smell, rarely permanent. your olfactory nerve is right inside of your ethmoid sinus, which is under your frontal sinus. The next line of antibiotics being engineered are surfactants which is what baby shampoo is. fungus, virus', and bacteria cannot develop resistance to the surfactant because what it does it break the adhesion between your tissue and the bad cells making them easier to flush out. the difference between a sinus rinse with saline solution, and one with baby shampoo is night and day. It comes at a risk however. Clinical trials on surfactant medications will conclude within the next few years, at which point they will begin flooding the market with multiple drugs in this class. the choice is clear, wait a few years and suffer, or gamble and use the shampoo and feel better. google sinusurf by neilmed lost sense of smell, and you can read all about it. don't quote me on the #'s, but I believe it to be 30% of the people who use baby shampoo will lose smell temporarily. of that 30%, something like 15-20% never get it back. Do you like to gamble??

other options without any risk would be natural organic honey, xylitol, apple cider vinegar, or fermented vegetable juice such as what Bad Ass Organics produce in their Gardenniera blend. Manuca honey is the best honey as it has proven antibiotic capabilities, but local organic honey is a viable option as well because local bees produce antigens to local diseases. 1 teaspoon honey per 8 oz works. Same measurements for the xylitol crystals too. All of these products should be available at your local health food store.

Another option would be low pitched humming. This produces a natural nitric oxide molecule capable of busting through multiple cellular membranes to kill of the infection. I've used this method, it works, 15-18 times a minute low pitched hum for 3-5 seconds for 20 minutes once or twice a day breaks up all of the crusting and pnd coating your pharnyx and goes to war with the disease cells inside your sinus. I do this in the shower, its the perfect time to do it so it won't bother anyone else.

Bactiban, a prescription ointment, is a god send for fighting sinus disease. It's a skin cream antibiotic that poses no threat to your health. 1/2 inch to 1 inch inside of a 8 oz sinus rinse to coat all the paranasal sinus will do.

Sphenoid disease runs the risk of spreading into your brain because the top of the sphenoid borders the brain. a thin bone is all that separates the two called to cribrivore plate, its about as thick as a fingernail. Meningitis is
not something you want to develop, I never have so I can't speak on the voracity of such a disease, but I'll take my doctors word for it.

The sphenoid sinus is the easiest sinus to rinse, standing up with your head tilted back is sufficient to irrigate it. If the disease is in the roof of the sphenoid, vertex- head to floor, is the best way to get that area. I do vertex rinses planked off the side of my bed, tilted slightly toward the ground, and with a straw inside the rinse bottle apply gently pressure by squeezing the bottle to fill the sinus in its entirety. Vortex, leaning backwards works too, but to get the roof from vortex, you have to break a 90 degree angle with your head pointed at the floor, which to that extent it becomes easier to master the vertex method. Vertex is best for frontal, ethmoid, and upper sphenoid sinus, vortex is best for lower sphenoid and lower maxillary sinus. to get upper maxillary sinus and inner ear, try touching an ear to your shoulder blade, and rinse in the bottom nostril. Gargling with saline solution, alcolol solution (not alcohol, it's available at a pharmacy), honey, xylitol may also be necessary to clean up the debri trail from the pnd. Tilting your head backward gets your lower throat, middle throat is self explanatory, but the upper throat just below the pharanyx is the tricky part. tilt your head back, lift your tongue upward toward the roof of your mouth submerging the uvula in the fluid and breath through your nose. It's tricky but practice makes perfect, you'll master it in no time.

In fighting this disease, no single modality of treatment is a cure, but adding all of them together is like adding up inches that become the difference between winning this fight or losing it.. Do not let a doctor sit there and throw antibiotic after antibiotic at you. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing expecting different results...find a rhinologist, sinus specialist, preferably one who studied at a top tier medical school. University of Pennsylvania wrote the book on what is currently known about sinus disease and are widely regarded as the best in the business. c**p doctors are a dime a dozen, don't fall victim to one.

i hope what I have written helps, i sincerely do. there is no worse hell to be stuck in than with an incurable sinonasal disease. I encourage all of you to do your own research into the matter, check your sources. The National Center for Biotechnology Information, American Forum of Allergy and Rhinology, PubMed, International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology are all peer reviewed and 100% accurate. surprisingly enough the Booger Doctor (speaks the truth in very basic terms) is another source of viable information too.

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Acidophilus is the probiotic strand recommended to me by my doctor as well. From my own experience, there is no tangible evidence this does anything,, but it can't hurt. stay away from sudafed, don't get addicted to that stuff, rebound inflammation is terrible. stay away from nasal sprays as well, stuff is like poison. the conspiracy of big pharma is not to cure, but to manage and hook you on the drugs which equal better quarterly statements for their shareholders.

I found this tad by doing a search for my own problem. It started in early October 2016 with a cold that wouldnt go away. Now, 6 months later, I have had cold symptoms for over 6 months, and sinus infection symltoms for 5 of those months.

I am looking for help, but also, I have to think there is something my excellent doctor is missing.

SYMPTOMS:
Cold
Stuffed up head and sinuses
Very thick mucus that wont easkly blow out, nor sniff in
When I can blow it out it is like a brow-green rubber cement
Ocassional dizziness
Fatigue
Eyesight not lerfectly corrected with glasses
Achy joints and bones (muscles?)
No sense of smell... ever
Can only smell an almost plastic-like smell... hard to describe

I dont have any other symptoms described by others.

TREATMENTS:
Zpac antibiotics... not even a blip of help
Cephrine? Antibiotic
Flonase
Sudafed (helps but only temporary)
Mucinex (dont know if that helps)

Mine started with periodic ear ache and feeling like something crawling it. Went to my ENT and he said can't see anything. That was it. This went on a couple of months and started feeling out of balance and dizziness. Got another appt. a month later. Hearing tested, ok. Made me an appt for MRI. He said it was normal, and I thought WHAT??? Please, give me meds. This is ruining my life. Worse that having a baby, all the surgeries I 've had. Finally, he rolled his eyes and put me on antibiotic and pnedisone. Suspicious, I got online on my hospital records and the report said minimal sphenoid sinusitis. I read this is the most dangerous sinuitis which can lead to the brain and eyes. He never mentioned this. WHY??? I am calling him tomorrow. Been on antibiotics and I am feeling much better except still having some dizziness. This is just crazy!!!

I have sphenoid sinusitis and I get amazing neck pain it is at the base of my skull, I don't get the clicking but when I get this pain I know that I am in for a bad time

Over ten years Ive been dealing with pain in my head, neck, and face. Right side only.

I have the same story many of you have below. The only comfort Ive found is cleaning my tonsils with silver solutions. I also use a nasal spray with slippery elm in a pressurized container from Whole foods. And a essential oil inhaler. Ive even dropped the silver solution into my nasal passage with great result. I can feel the liquid going back all the way to my neck area where I usually feel pain.

I just created this support group for us all to communicate on. Lets all get together and help onE another because the Medical Industry will never profit off of people beating this condition. It opens up a plethora of profits for their statements.

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I have the same thing now for months. They gave me allergy meds, nasal sprays, anti-biotics which stopped the severe head pain,but still have dizziness. Hv to go back to doctor. Saw online the same white sticky mucus that somebody on there has. They pack your nose I guess to expand the spenoid, later they take it out and drain the sinus. I think that is what the ENT will success or else surgery. I have to have something done, I am miserable for months now. Somethings got to give here. None of these meds will help you. I have never had any sinus problems before this and I am 74. This is the worse thing I have ever had in my whole life. I know I will have to have some procedure to try to get rid of this.

Hi Mike. Your message may be from a long time ago but I have these same symptoms with sphenoid sinusitis and I was wondering if you ever had surgery or found a solution or how you are today? Thank you.

Hi my name is jennifer. I have some of the very symptoms you are referring to. I get headaches so bad I feel like cracking my skull open pulling out my brain. Not just that around my eyes sinuses 'the back of my neck in my temple area hurts and it always feel like I have buggers way back in my nose that I cant reach far enough to get out. My nose isnt runny or stuffy. I do have a little mucus but my sinuses are clear but around my sinus are irritated very bad. I wonder what the cause of this? I do get blurred vision and dizzy and tired at times. Ive been getting these headachs for a very long time now . they say it migraines and theres nothing I Can do about the very sharp stabbing pains I get in my head from it. I havent been to see a specialist yet. I pip BC powders so much till they dont help at all now. Im taking excederine migrain but it take entirely to long to work and at time it doent help so I kind of take three to four pills at once to get some kind of releaf.it doesnt last long though.

TRY Olive leaf extract. I think thats whats worked best for me. Be aware you may feel sick from the detox

I had a very similar situation with head pressure for 3 months! No antibiotic worked, until I tried Biaxin which made me feel better within 24 hours. 2 Weeks after the first pill, I still feel 70% better than the past three months, in which I never had more than 2 days that I felt 70% good. Ask your doctor to try that in case you have a sinus infection,

I had a very similar situation with head pressure for 3 months! No antibiotic worked, until I tried Biaxin which made me feel better within 24 hours. 2 Weeks after the first pill, I still feel 70% better than the past three months, in which I never had more than 2 days that I felt 70% good. Ask your doctor to try that in case you have a sinus infection,

I hv chronic sphenoidal and ethmoidal sinusitis