Nasal concha Puns

Hi All,

My ENT has proposed that I get a nasal septoplasty and endoscopic sinus surgery with resection of concha bullosa. Does anyone know if there is any benefit to just getting the septoplasty and opting out of the latter? I have intermittent severe congestion and nasal inflammation, but no sinusitis (no mucus discharge ever). I feel like my ENT is adding in the latter surgery as a "nice to have", however, I id like to ask others if they have opted out and still reaped benefits from the septoplasty.

Thanks!

hey guys, while going through the head bisection in anatomy lab, I noticed with some colleague that the Nasal concha of the cadaver has a black/gray hue although the epithelia around it and cavity is pink in color. Any idea why would that be ? Could that be attributed to being a smoker ?

Today I got turbinate reduction surgery for concha bullosa and whatever else they said lol. Basically for the past 7 months I’ve been pretty unable to to any exercise and I’ve had a lot of sinus headaches but today, I got surgery! I’m thinking about documenting my progress by the day in case anyone else is suffering and is thinking of getting surgery!

Day 0: for being post surgery day, this isn’t terrible. I got it this morning and they put me under. Felt pretty blah all day but Tylenol helped a lot. Just a lot of nose bleeding throughout the day. Gotta sleep sitting up which sucks hoping I’ll get some sleep tonight!

Day 1: not feeling as bad for sure. I got a decent enough sleep believe it or not and my nose isn’t too stuffy today. A warning, I went to start my nasal rinse with the bottle and holy shit did it hurt!! I called the doc who said it’s okay to use the neti pot while it’s still healing. Hit a nerve near my mouth trying it with the bottle!! Felt better than yesterday for sure but still not 100% dry nose and not being able to blow my nose sucks lol. Did accidentally sneeze through my nose tho wow do NOT make that mistake. Always through the mouth. Will see how I feel tomorrow. Still have to sleep elevated tonight smh

Day 2: feeling a little better each day but the congestion sucks. My head hurts off and on and I have been dealing with some nausea that they’re gonna prescribe me something for. I hate sleeping elevated, definitely gonna ask when I can sleep normally again. The pain comes in waves, sometimes I feel okay and fine the next my head is killing and the nausea is unbearable. But overall I know it’s only been two days post surgery. I started using the squeeze bottle to rinse my sinuses.

3-5: congestion been clearing up great! Headaches on and off though, still recovering day to day. Still sleeping elevated and on my back which has been sucking but it’s for the best. Been dealing with nausea so I had my doc prescribe me some anti nausea meds so watch out for that. Staying resting for most of the day. Just feeling tired

6-9: congestion has just about cleared up! But still doing the sinus rinses. My energy is better but it’s definitely still not 100%. Attempted to go to work but my job requires me to stand for long periods of time so I had to leave pretty early. I’m realizing it’s gonna be a while until I have my full stamina back! Each day is better but I’m just gonna have to walk a little each day and keep resting. Even though they sa

Good Morning All,

I just wanted to give a run down of my current situation and see if I'm over thinking things. Which is very possible, because that's the story of my life.

So, I had sinus surgery in May of this year after COVID wreaked havoc on them. The surgery I had was a Ballon Sinuplasty and Inferior Tubinate Reduction. During the surgery, the surgeon removed some tissue and was unable to get into my right frontal sinus. I did post about my experience here. Felt great until....September. So, three months of relief.

In September, I thought I had strep throat and tried antibiotics that were prescribed by a virtual doctor, didn't do anything. So, went to my GP; when she looked in my throat, she said it was the worse Post Nasal Drip she has ever seen. Cool. Tried using additional allergy meds, nasal spray, netti pot, acid reflux meds, etc. for a month. Then I went and saw a new ENT since the previous one left the health care system I use.

He did an in office nasal endoscopy and found two large polyps in both sides (I forgot exactly where) and that I have significant laryngopharyngeal reflux with thick stringy mucous throughout. Also, during our visit he had mentioned that he thought my sinus surgery should have been a FESS and it probably should have taken a minimum of 4 hours. Let me just say, both of the ENTs I saw had GREAT bedside manner and I really liked both of them.

So, I just thought it was a difference of opinion. Until I got my most recent CT scan back...

I was able to see the images side by side of first CT scan from 02/2021 and from 12/2021. Minus my Inferior Tubinates, they looked almost identical. There is a cyst, about 6-8 polyps, infection in some of sinuses, and a large concha bullosa in my middle turbinate. All of this was there during my first surgery, and my first surgery just left it?

I have a follow up with my new ENT on 12/29. But, I'm kind of speechless. His comment about how long my first surgery should have been makes sense now, but having a revision this soon just sucks.

We are not going to do any antibiotics because my first ENT had me on antibiotics for literally 3 months straight. And I'm not doing that again. And my current doctor agreed.

TL;DR First ENT only did the bare minimum for surgery. And now I may need an extension revision after only 8 months.

Again, I haven't talked to my doctor yet, but has this happened to anyone?

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Can someone tell me what it feels like so I can be prepared? Also I need to get stitches out too. Help !! Tell me what I should expect 😩

Do your worst!

I know it is abrupt to ask for help, but I really think I have nothing to do. I am desperate.

I have had sinusitis for several years. I saw primary doctors, acupuncturists, tried Claritin, Flonase, Rhinocort, etc. I exercised and made rice congee myself because the acupuncturist said it is good for me. However, the medicine works less and less, and my nose is still stuck after my exercise.

I feel hard to focus on my study but be addicted to social media because it can let me forgot my agony. I missed many dues and made everyone disappointed with me, although I didn't really want it.

The Health center in my university never seems to get through. I went to see an acupuncturist several times, and he gave me a bottle of oriental medicine. I am taking this one. But I still can not breathe.

I feel that I am dying, but no one cares about it. I am badly ill but never get cured. No one can help me out of this dilemma and make my life, neither can I. If there is someone, I would appreciate it.

The clues are:

• I might have an allergy, but I don't know what caused it. Is it an egg? Cold air? Pollen?

• Seems that it happens when the weather turns drastically;

• My nose gets stuck a lot, but seldom becomes runny;

• I watch inside my nose before, and it seems my inferior nasal concha is getting the way;

• In the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, as my acupuncturist told me, it is a spleen-qi deficiency, accompanied by lung and liver problems;

• Warmth makes things better;

• Humidity can help;

• An air purifier can help but I don't know why I still feel so bad with it on. I have Renpho, but the filter button turns red at the time I installed it.

Does anyone have experience or knowledge of solving this problem? Thank you!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

I went to the nose doctor, i had a camera up my nose that revealed i had "non obstructive inferior nasal concha hypertrophy" and was told that "breathing through one nostril at a time is normal".

However, i ask my parents and some friends and they claim they can inhale and exchale fine through either of their nostrils at any given time.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

They’re on standbi

So I just got my tonsils, that were slightly chronically infected, and uvula removed and my nasal conchae/turbinates adjusted for better airflow up the schnoze so I'm wondering how these will affect my screaming in the future. I'll first let everything heal properly (6 months or so should be ok?) and then feel it out, but I'd appreciate it a ton if someone could tell me their own experiences after going through similar procedures. I know there's a similar thread from a few months ago and I got some answers from that, but I have a few more questions:

Before the surgeries I couldn't let air through my nose when screaming, will I be able to now and is it even essential or needed in the first place?

My screams were always really breathy even when I tried to compress my diaphragm and/or abs to the max. Will this new configuration of the pharynx(?) help it or make it harder to make the scream compressed and less loaded on the throat?

When screaming, I feel like I'm doing everything right (aside from maaaybe slipping into some wrong kind of vocal fold usage when out of breath or when my diaphragm is getting tired for like halves of seconds at a time) but still getting a sore throat afterwards. I don't know what counts as hurting because to me it never felt like screaming was hurting, just making me cough and making my throat sore, as I said, even when presumably doing everything right and feeling the right vibrations in the right places. This is the same with my fry (I'm reeeally new to fry) but most noticeable with false cord mids, normal false lows or kargyraa. Gutturals rarely cause irritation, soreness or coughing unless I go on for a really long time without breaks or water, which I have accidentally done a couple of times. For some reason gutturals feel the easiest and come to me the most naturally (and I can't even do any highs if anybody was wondering about my highs). Now that I explained all that, my question is that should the soreness be gone when I start screaming again? As I mentioned in the beginning, my tonsils were slightly infected and irritated, like, all of the time so maybe that's what caused all the coughing and irritation even when my technique was correct?

I know these may be really hard to answer and maybe we don't have enough knowledge on this subject overall, but any and all input is appreciated. Thanks to everyone in advance!

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

BamBOO!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

¿Cómo se sentirían si supieran quienes fueron antes?

Hace unos años, mi curiosidad me llevó a indagar en estos temas y a través de maravillosas personas llegué a contactarme con una persona, un psicólogo que realiza la terapia de regresión y créanme, no es nada parecido a como vemos en las series y películas acerca de un estado hipnótico donde no recuerdas nada de lo que sucedió, al contrario, lo recuerdas con mucha claridad, es tangible a través de todos tus sentidos, tanto, que puedes llegar a sentirte tan inmerso en el recuerdo que no vuelvas a ser el mismo y he allí el peligro de realizar estas prácticas sin la supervisión de un experto. Lo sucedido fue lo siguiente: me dieron la instrucción de recostarme y colocaron sobre mi pecho una pirámide de cuarzo rosado, justo por encima de mi corazón, al centro. Y el proceso inició, al principio la relación primaria y poco a poco una relación mucho más profunda, estaba tan relajado por la voz de mi guía que solo experimentaba dos cosas: un temblor incontrolable en mi cuerpo, casi como si vibrara a punto de transformarse en una violenta convulsión y un estado de calma y claridad absoluto, ambas a la vez. Luego comprobé, al preguntar al asistente de mi guía en el proceso, que no realicé ni el menor gesto de espasmo muscular...

Yendo en retrospectiva a través de mi infancia hasta el vientre de mi madre y luego más allá, penetré en un estado suspendido de todo lo racionalmente conocido, no puedo describirlo con una palabra más claro, pero lamentablemente ambigua sino: Paz. Y de inmediato, se suscitó una imagen, acompañada de todo un texto absolutamente claro. Podía ver, oler, sentir, saber y degustar a donde mi atención se dirigiera en la escena. Era un niño en una casa muy rural, en algún lugar de una Europa campesina y muy pobre. Solo éramos mamá, papá y mi hermano gemelo. Estábamos sentados alrededor de una tabla gruesa cortada bruscamente a modo de mesa y degustábamos un rico pan seco y de concha dura que me hacía doler las encías, pero adoraba como la migaja se pegaba a mi paladar producto de la levadura. Sin mentir, es el pan más delicioso que probé en mi vida (claro, me refiero a esa vida) y a pesar de la extrema pobreza y casi total penumbra, se filtraban rayos de luz hacía lo que asumí era el espacio de comedor, habitación y cocina. El hollín era la pintura con la que estaban teñidas las paredes y sentía un poco de escozor en la vista producto del humo del fogón que crepitaba. Era agosto, lo sabía porqu

I won't be doing that today!

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Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

It was about a weak back.