Problems with Sinus Surgery

Having a chronic sinus infection can impact your quality of life for a very long time if you don't do something about it. With a chronic sinus infection, you have difficulty sleeping, breathing, interacting in public, and the food you eat always seems to taste funny. Now, depending on your sinus infection you might even have chronic nausea from the amount of mucus in your digestive system, no matter how many times you blow your nose.

If you're feeling nauseous, the last thing you want to do is get out of bed, let alone go to work or school, raise kids, pay the bills and anything else you have to do. This is when surgery will be offered as an option. You might not have much of a choice but to go under the knife, but you should still be aware of the problems with sinus surgery.

The Band Aid Effect

One of the biggest problems with sinus surgery is that it's often just an incredibly elaborate band aid (plaster) for your overall sinus infection problem. If it's not known why your sinuses are so infected, then the relief of the surgery will only be temporary.
You need to discover the source of your sinus infection with your doctor and attack that issue first. But if you are having trouble getting a firm diagnosis, then temporary relief may be better than no relief. Just realize that it is usually not a cure-all.

Surgery In General

There are three main kinds of sinus surgery, but each requires your sinuses to be exposed to what is ever in the outer environment. One of the problems with sinus surgery is the problem with any kind of surgery – the risk of a post operative infection, a botched operation or any other problems you might encounter when recuperating from surgery in general. Most of the time, your doctor will not suggest surgery lightly because of the risks involved. Now, if you have a strange growth or malformed sinuses, then surgery will actually be of great benefit to you.

What You Still Need To Do

Another problem with sinus surgery is that you'll still have to do regular nose maintenance. What does that mean? You just can’t ever get the attitude that the sinus infection will never come back because you’ve had surgery. You still need to keep your nose clean, literally and figuratively. Air purification would be recommended, nasal washes and doing your best to stay as healthy as possible.

Also, you'll need to boost your immune system after your surgery to help your body fight and defend against pathogens, poor indoor air quality and the like.

If you smoke, guess what? You better knock it off. Plain and simple. If you're regularly hanging out with your friends who smoke, you need to seriously ask them to not smoke around you. Ironically for some people, this may be one of the biggest problems with sinus surgery.

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