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hollysmom

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1. I had a running sinus that just would not go away.
Sat Feb 22, 2014, 02:49 PM
Feb 2014

My coughing was so annoying, they came to me at work and said I could not work there anymore because no one else in the office could work. I was an independent contractor so they could have fired me, but instead they let me work nights and weekends.

The problem: I had been going to the same doctor for a year and he kept giving me antibiotics that did nothing. Ten one day the doctor was sick and I got another doctor - she gave me a prescription for an antibiotic that cost 1000 a month and it really calmed it down. But it did not go away, I could just work during the day again. She sent me to an out of network specialist that she said was the best in the country, after she asked if i could afford it. I had already had my head screwed to a board for 1 hour of MRI and that did nothing , so to go to the best was acceptable. When I went to this doctor, he threw a camera up my nose and saw what the problem was immediately - having a sinus infection for a year sealed most of my sinuses shut with scar tissue so it was a river of infection coming back whenever I stopped antibiotic. I went into surgery and had the holes drilled open and have never been sick like that again, although I tend to sneeze more, maybe because the holes are open and I can take in more dust,

My suggestion, if possible, change doctors.

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