As some of you know me and some of you don’t, I’ll kind of explain. I have pretty terrible allergies, and while they do bother me, they didn’t have a huge effect until now.
While rollerblading in Troy (brilliant idea, I know) I hit a crack in the road that sent me on my face. After this, I had trouble breathing through one nostril. I figured I broke my nose, so I set up an appointment with my ENT to see what was going on.
He said I did break it slightly, too slightly to do much about. While he said my septum (which was deviated from the fall, and may/may not correct itself) may cause some issues breathing, the 15+ polyps in my nose are a greater cause for concern. He said they will need to be removed if simple saline does not shrink or eliminate them.
Anyone ever had this done? Experiences with it/around it? I know this isn’t a medical board but I was looking for more of a personal experience kind of account of things if anyone has any. Thanks all.
It sounds like the thing my buddy did. This kid snoored like a mother fucker, allways sniffed and sounded congested 24/7, and couldnt breath through his nose. He got it done and is 100% now.
One of my friends had it done, so I’m not speaking from experience. Apparently they are relatively serious, as they’re essentially a foreign body (in your body). They can grow, shrink, rupture, stifle your breathing and such. Yeah, I’d get it done. The most I have had done is getting my nose cauterized due to nosebleeds (I think Elliot was at Best Buy when these were going on). That hurt like a bitch, I’m assuming polyp surgery will be a anesthetic treatment
Yea, when the doctor saw the polyps he instantly became more concerned about those than my septum…he wants me in for allergy testing asap to see why they’re getting there. I guess those take momentary priority over a potentially deviated septum, since they present more of an airway blockage.
I would think so, the apnea surgery involves cutting away more septum tissue in a lot of cases to widen the airways in your nostrils, where the polyp surgery doesn’t require cutting into the septum. But if my septum doesn’t heal itself then I have to have a surgery similar to that of a sleep apnea patient.
My dad had it done twice. Theres no guaruntee it wont come back, but very rarely are the polyps cancerous (biggest concern with irregular growths). The had to break my dads nose the second time around and had to completely reshape it. Hopefully your operation wont be as extreme. You can wait 7 years and ill do it for you for a hell of a price lol.
EDIT : You can PM me if you have any questions. I just covered respiratory ailments and diseases for the mcats.
Nope, sleep apnea originates at the soft palate. People with blocked nasal passages usually breathe loudly all the time. Sleep apnea is only in certain positions while sleeping (easily fixable).
Not true. I know you are smart/taking mcats etc etc, so don’t take offense. SOME sleeping positions contribute to sleep apnea in individuals
who have respiratory ailments.
However, many people have hereditary issues (cerebrovascular diseases)
which keeps the brain from signaling the ‘breathing muscles’. A lot of times, even
minor things like higher altitude, or some medications will intensify sleep apnea as
some meds. cause irregular heartrates etc.
Some people with heart or lung disease, for example, have a hard time getting the
oxygen into their blood. Over time, the brain in these circumstances will stop monitoring
O2 input and instead use blood carbon dioxide levels to determine when to take the next breath.
Shit gets crazy. My father was tested for this and its actually quite complicated.
The tests and monitoring procedures were very detailed- it was pretty interesting.
That would make sense that apnea would be a bit more complicated than polyps and needs a lot more testing.
With the polyps, the way it was explained to me is that polyps are foreign and doctors don’t want them in your nose.
1 being that they COULD be cancerous, since they’re a foreign growth of cell/tissue.
2 being that infection can “hide/live” in them as you get sick and come back stronger and medication resistant. That is what happened to me when I had my tonsils taken out. The doctors tested them after and I had a few medication resistant forms of strep living in the tissue!!!
The broken nose/deviated septum is one thing, that’s more cosmetic, and is going to be taken care of Friday when they reset my nose (x-rays showed it moved a bit). But from a health perspective I am looking into getting the polyps removed. Just need to do it during a time when school isn’t in full swing.
No dont feel your going to offend me. Your absolutely correct. I should have said the majority of sleep apnea conditions derive from the soft palate. Respiratory ailments without a doubt could cause snoring. The two types of damaging cerebrovascular incidents your really talking about are ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke right (im assuming you have a family history)? I didnt know that the thrombosis causing these was hereditary until a few days ago, i always thought it was diet related.
No family history of any sort of stroke.
And, I don’t think those strokes are as related to apnea as you’d think.
The relation of o2/co2 : blood , is more relative to apnea, than bleeding (hem)
and clotting (isc) type strokes would be. Id assume because those types of
embolisms/ruptures are caused more commonly by other things unrelated to
respiratory functions*.
*smoking, diabetes, diet, high bp, or anything else that damages arterys etc.
I was more so referring to the neuromuscular damage that comes from a stroke (still cerebrovascular). Definitely a link to apnea when diaphragm and intercostal damaging is involved. I don’t really get what your saying now about pc02 and p02 levels. Normally the body uses blood pH(through sodium bicarbonate which is the transporting form of c02) and pc02 levels in the alveolar capillaries. If you have high levels of blood O2 the body wont ever know if your blood ph is around 7.4 and your pc02 levels are around 40 or so. Sounds like what your saying could be very problematic considering average pO2 levels are about 2.5 times those of pcO2 levels in blood. (100 and 40 respectively). Not saying your wrong as with many medical reportings theres multiple answers. I’m definitely gonna do some research. This could very well be the most intelligent conversation shift has ever had btw
Interesting stuff!!!
This is DEFINITELY the most intelligent thread I’ve seen on shift in my stay here. Now if only there was a way to incorporate Aeronautical or Mechanical Engineering into this discussion so I can contribute more lol
really !