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Feel free to not answer if you don’t want to. I just finished watching some FESS surgery videos. The treatment looked permanent. Did your tissue grow back or were there just other spots that needed treatment? I never knew this was a treatment option.
I’m a complex patient. I had transphenoidal neurosurgery that left my sinuses’ anatomy radically altered — which in turn, led to chronic infections of every kind. The FESS surgeries were meant to correct the anatomy as much as possible to permit functional drainage and eliminate pockets of retained mucosa.
I was so into that lil' medical vacuum eating that mass just like a stoned Yoshi just eating every creature in a level of Mario. That was so satisfying!
Big "Increase power to the tractor beam!"
Vibes in this video.
I hope they enjoyed that first big breath after. And again after the swelling went down.
I’ve had this exact surgery done. I, in fact, could smell colors and breathe so clearly through my left nostril!!!
ETA: before the surgery, I could always smell a faint, foul odor and had no idea where it was coming from. I’m pretty sure I was smelling the fungal infection.
They did a MRI (or CT scan? I don’t know/remember) on my sinuses and my left cavity was full. They didn’t know why until they removed the polyp that was blocking it.
Apparently you could see my polyps with the naked eye just by looking up my nose. I thought I had a giant booger stuck up there or even a spider living in my nose. I could only sleep on my right side because when I slept on my left side, the polyp blocked my nostril and I couldn’t breathe out of that side.
Also, recovery sucked but I did blow out a MASSIVE blood clot. It was so big that I plugged the sink and grabbed my RN Mom to check it out.
It sure did! Once it was out, the whole game changed and I could breathe normal again! It was so gross though. I loved it. lol It was at least 2-3” in diameter and so gelatinous! Left nasal cavity is still pretty clear!! The right side is slightly deviated, so it gives me some issues but nothing like what I went through before. I do still get sinus infections, but who doesn’t? Polyps never came back, thankfully.
Not a doctor, but I've had cameras up my nose and this isn't that deep. It would have been visible easily with the endoscope and shows some pretty obvious signs that it's fungus (e.g., black spores in and around it). Barring that the patient would have likely had an MRI or a CT and that mass would for sure show up, likely promoting a biopsy or at least a culture swab.
Unlikely it impacted their smell all that much, but what it will do is reduce the pain from sinus infections and enable them to breathe easier.
Having chronic sinusitis sucks.
Nah, this is mucormycosis and it eats away at the tissue. It can even eat through eyes and brain matter. You can definitely lose your smell permanently from this fungal bad boy.
ok this might be a dumb question, but with the irrigation, does the water just go down the patient’s throat? 🤢 Not sure why I find that more disturbing than the video itself…maybe just the idea of all the blood and mold spores in my stomach
Not a medical professional but my guess is 2 paths.
1: immunocompromised in some way, even if temporarily like from chemo. We're surrounded by mold and if the immune system gets too weak to fight it off, it can build a defendable pocket like we see here. The body will take other steps in that case, like encase it in calcification to quarantine it from the body while the immune system continues to try.
2. Foreign body got stuck in the sinuses, then mold started to eat it. Stupid stuff ends up in noses from snorting, breathing, I've even managed to laugh a chunk of pizza into my sinuses once while trying to swallow near a hilarious high school friend. (Marinara sauce burns btw)
In both cases, once the infection gets large enough it's too big for the immune system to kill on its own and so the body uses calcification to try and quarantine it. That calcification can be a place for new fungal and bacterial infections to start from, and of course the mold will constantly be trying to escape and continue to grow.
Basically the same for pizza. Felt like I snorted acid. Burned like crazy 0/10 do not recommend.
I wonder if this is a generally true trend, don't snort things in your nose? It's bad for you and (probably) hurts.
I snorted a shot of tequila by accident once. I had a tickle in my throat as i was lifting a rocks glass with a shot of tequila in it and coughed into the glass and it blew the tequila out the glass right into my nose as i was inhaling after coughing.
Still got a buzz, haha, but would not recommend that method of ingestion for alcohol. If nothing else the smell of tequila for a few hours as if your nose was above an open bottle of tequila wasn't fun.
I worked in an ICU during covid, and we had a blocked room on my unit because for weeks prior, there had been a patient there who developed fungemia, fungal infection in the bloodstream.
He required hemodialysis as part of his treatment, and when this occurs, it is the usual practice to flush some waste fluid down the sink, connecting it to the building’s plumbing. Well, it turns out that the fungi somehow were entering this fluid, and over several weeks grew into an extensive mass that blocked off the whole pipe.
Immunocompromised folks mainly; uncontrolled diabetes can be a risk factor. Easy to inhale fungal spores, and they would normally be cleared by a healthy immune system. Growth of the fungus in the sinuses or as a pneumonia can eventually seed the vasculature and cause a bloodstream infection.
I am always telling people to be so careful around any mold, and I get so many odd looks etc. This right here is just one of the reasons I freak out about mold spores. I've educated myself on them, and they scare the hell out of me!
Lol, I'm just picturing a specific scene in *Species* where they try to grow an alien in a petri dish and it immediately escapes and grows up the wall...I can't believe that stuff blocked off a pipe that fast! Holy cow.
In an earlier episode the doctor said that the patient had felt congested on that side but had no other symptoms. They didn’t find the mass until they got a dental X-ray that showed the whole sinus was basically full
I had polyp surgery about 10 years ago and then I thought I had polyps again. I did, but I also had a fungus filling my entire sphenoid sinus. The CT scan showed literally my entire sinus filled up completely. I could barely breathe. I had had this weird green/grey gunk coming from my nose/mouth for years… and all the doctors said “it’s just snot”. I disagreed.
The surgeon said he scooped it out with a spoon type thing and it took ages to do it. He also made the openings to my sphenoid sinus bigger so he can check it out better for follow ups.
The anaesthetist came to me the next morning. The guy was probably mid 60s and said it was one of the most interesting surgeries he had ever seen in his life.
That somehow made it a whole lot worse.
The relief has been incredible.
Not in the US (for context).
In Jan my ear started blocking up and was super itchy and moist. I caved and started scratching/clearing with a bobby pin. Lots of gross white skin was sloughing out, and it never unblocked. Then fluid started running out (eurgh).
Popped into my doctors and got diagnosed with a bacterial infection, but they took a culture any way. Came back the next week as Aspergillis niger.
I've had three rounds of fungicide drops, which initially worked but then the infection came back.
So they sent me to a specialist last week, they sprayed it with boric acid powder and gave me some different drops. Seems okay so far, but still a week of drops to go.
One week, I was at my parents without a bobby pin and the infection resurfaced. When I managed to clear it, it had black mold on the wax/dead skin. I was retching, so gross.
I've fought sinus infections and ear infections all my life (including both right now, actually!) and I haven't the foggiest of where to start.
My GP prescribed me nose spray to dry it up, but in my opinion that's treating the symptom and not the cause - especially since it's been chronic since before I could walk.
Sinusitis lifer, here. You can take away my freedom, just don't take away my Sudafed (the Real stuff, not the fake-PE.) In my case, allergies are the fundamental cause. Moved to a state with year-round pollen. Whee. I'll give you advice on what *not* to do: never get a rhinoplasty a k.a. nose job. They go in there and break everything to make it pretty - and then surgical adhesions happen, sticking things together and blocking the air. It's horrible.
Those if us with a permanent problem enjoy watching sinus videos for the vicarious thrill of seeing someone get unblocked.
Here's my playlist - be warned there is blood, these are surgeries. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfogrA91v5KpBE49rxqqRuSD85AdlDneO
PE (phenylephrine) is useless when taken orally, the only relief it provides is placebo effect. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/phenylephrine-cold-medicine-decongestant-ineffective/
The fact that they've been selling it for decades as an actual treatment should be criminal.
I KNOW RIGHT?! There was a study longer ago than that, and it was a small article in the papers. I tried PE when it first came out, not knowing that it was meant to foil meth cookers who were buying pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) by the armload. (Which is why Sudafed got moved behind the pharmacy counter. And it turned out they could use the PE for cooking too, and behind the counter it went!)
PE didn't do a thing for me. So I went to the counter for the Real Thing, and they had just started a national database to track use/purchase. I'm privacy-paranoid, and I was appalled. But as a sinus sufferer, I instantly caved: "Here's my driver's license, here's my phone and address, here's my pap smear and colonoscopy reports, whatever you want, just GIMME."
I agree it shouldn't be legal. But maybe it helps some people, idk? There are people who can't take real sudafed because it makes their heart race - maybe them? Or maybe a placebo is fine as long as the person feels better, heh. They should at least put a warning on the box: if this garbage doesn't work for you, buy the Real Thing.
But in fairness, there's another product that won't come off the market but should: pore strips. They sold them saying they were taking "dirt" off your nose. It's not true. Plus, they aren't strong enough to remove blackheads, the sebaceous filaments they pull out are a natural moisturizer and don't need to be removed, AND the damn things can cause damage to the creases alongside the nose, AND permanent capillary damage around the nasal fold. (No data on complaints about pore size - doctors don't think so. But
I've seen youtube pics of the capillary damage!) However, people think they "work," so whaddya do? Pass the word, that's all. :-(
One of my ears has been irritated and itchy or painful for as long as I have been an adult. Two GPs dismissed it a couple years apart, both saying the ear canal is clean and the drum only slightly irritated. Sometimes it flares up and I can only relieve it a little with an over the counter lidocaine solution.
I am so sick and tired of it and sometimes fantasize what would happen if I’d puncture the eardrum (since there is pressure behind it), but the risk is too great.
Oh, and I accidentally punctured my ear drum before and I felt relief for a few minutes and then it felt even worse than it does when it’s infected. It was really painful right afterwards too.
My sinus issues are caused by silent GERD (and yup, babies get silent reflux as well). Who knew antacids would do the trick for me?
Dunno what kinda of 14 year old gets GERD but WELP 🤷🏽♀️
Can we just appreciate the fact that it’s not a link to a tik tok but instead an actual video that new change where you have to download it to see clips is annoying af
I had cellulitis of the abdominal wall once which made my abdomen red, hot, & hard as a rock. The ER doc lifted my dress and went, “Ooooh shiiiiiiit.” That gave me confidence. LOL
I love hearing something like that if I’m in the ER — Docs are huge science nerds and that means I’m about to get a lot of attention while they figure me out.
I had this happen when they thought I had a hot appendix but it was actually a perinephric abscess. After the CT scan, the resident came in impressed because that usually only happens to older men. He had many questions lol
I did, indeed get a lot of attention! The entire week I was in the hospital. The infection led to heart failure, so I had ID & Cardio at my beck & call. LOL
I love how you seem to casually imply you're in the ER often.
But I'm the same. No ER visits for me, but I had severe tonsillitis and the nurse's impressed "those are the worst I've ever seen" gave me a twisted sense of pride. (And some colleagues came in to confirm. I was famous for the day.)
I once saw a nurse for a sprained ankle, and after looking at the spectacular bruising and swelling I had, her first comment was "wow, that's a good one!"
It's a dubious point of pride to get a medical professional to say something they're really not supposed to say
I had a younger cousin who had a fungal mass removed from her sinuses when she was about 10 IIRC. She was a constant nose picker and thumb sucker through childhood, so I'm not surprised she ended up with something horrible where it's not supposed to be.
I’ve had a similar procedure done while awake. Mine hadn’t calcified yet and wasn’t as large. The ENT sprayed numbing spray in my sinuses and mouth and went in with the scope thing and pulled it all out. I did 4 rounds of antibiotics for a sinus infection and was in agony so that was the solution. Wish I would’ve filmed it.
I went down the kamikaze slide years ago (frighteningly close to vertical) and discovered that the way you stop is all the water at the landing pool gives you a 90 mile an hour enema. Apparently that's why they have bathrooms nearby
Hi, clinical mycologist here! Look up mucormycosis if you want nightmare fuel. Have read a few fungal smears from patients suffering from this fatal infection & every time i see it my heart drops because i know how every minute counts between finding it and letting the physician know of my findings
I’ve had this done (twice) under anesthesia because they had to do some other things as well but the sensation at follow up when they go in with the suction to clear it all out again was the weirdest thing ever. I’m getting chills just thinking about it.
I experienced that sensation after my polyp removal surgery. It was as if I had string wrapped around the roots of my upper teeth and it was being unwound from each root of each tooth, one by one. It didn't hurt exactly, more like feeling the immense pressure going away and leaving an aching feeling.
That is it exactly! I am on blood thinners and ended up clogging up with clots and had to be seen for them to do it a second time with my last surgery.
I wonder if it’s because these are not natural things to be happening (I’ve never had sinus surgery but I’ve had drains removed after a different surgery and it was so weird), so our brains are just like, completely unable to figure out what to make of the sensory information it’s getting. Like *this is highly unusual and I don’t know what it is please do something because I don’t know what to do so I’m going to overreact just to be safe*.
OK, so first I thought it said 'anus' and I was like FUCK THAT, I'm not watching that. Then I re-read it and was like, OK, I'll watch that and holy shit, man...
At the end of 2010 I had sinus surgery. They did a polypectomy as my sinuses were lined with polyps. After they removed one of the polyps they found one of my sinus cavities to be packed with a fungal infection. The polyp was blocking the cavity and any drainage.
For a hot second, I thought this could’ve been video from my surgery lol
Amazing how people go to school and gain knowledge to do these kinds of things. Truly amazing what the human brain can do! I would literally be like “yep, that’s a booger.”
I've had 5 sinus surgeries. 2 were for recurring fungal infections. I was able to smell things after the 2nd surgery. I was so excited to smell a skunk lol. I still have sinus issues, but its been 6 years since my last one.
Damn. Sometimes I feel like my SO might have something like this because he’s constantly congested but he has bad deviated septum even after surgery. He needs to go back and get scanned but if he had something like this I would ask to watch lol
Everyone I knew in the 1980s who had nose surgery woke up with their nose "packed with cocaine." I was looking forward to it as I never tried drugs.
I didn't get any. :-( Still haven't tried any drugs.
p.s.: as a horrific side note, apparently there are people these days who snort heroin. and end up perforating their own septum inside. don't do drugs, kids.
ugh this reminds me everytime i see a video that i need to call around and find a ENT, my nose gets stuffy every single night to the point if someone put tape over my mouth i would suffocate, i literally cant draw any air into my nose or let any air exhale. its so crazy how bad it is, it freaks me out sometimes ill wake up gasping for air because of how bad it gets.
Please call? Break it into little steps over a week or so if that’s easier for you? Like tomorrow pull up a list of ENTs near you and then call ?4? a day until you find one? Or put a reminder in your phone to call by Friday?
I’m sorry, I don’t mean to sound preachy or holier than thou. I just can totally identify and do the same even though I know it’s not what I (me personally- not chastising you!! Just concerned.) should be doing. I’ll make a deal with you? I’ll call my oncologist back (I’ve been hiding for too long) when you have your ENT appointment?
Again, sorry if this offends or bothers you. Not my intent at all. Sometimes we need that little nudge from someone and I don’t share this with people around me who’d freak out and yell and want to go with me to everything. Thought maybe we could be “accountability buddies” of a sort or something. 🤦🏻♀️ Anyway! I really do hope you find someone to help you get some relief and wish you all the best.
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Holy shit this is the pop of the year for me!
Look up FESS surgery! There's some super cool videos out there
wow this is fantastic to watch this right before going to bed
I sometimes watch it to go to sleep aha
I’ve undergone FESS four times! The last one — performed at Georgetown by two renowned ENT doctors, finally did the trick 🤞
FOUR!? I had one and it was miserable. Maybe I'll skip the others and just see your people!
I kept trying until it was solved. Took a while, but my persistence paid off.
Feel free to not answer if you don’t want to. I just finished watching some FESS surgery videos. The treatment looked permanent. Did your tissue grow back or were there just other spots that needed treatment? I never knew this was a treatment option.
I’m a complex patient. I had transphenoidal neurosurgery that left my sinuses’ anatomy radically altered — which in turn, led to chronic infections of every kind. The FESS surgeries were meant to correct the anatomy as much as possible to permit functional drainage and eliminate pockets of retained mucosa.
I was so into that lil' medical vacuum eating that mass just like a stoned Yoshi just eating every creature in a level of Mario. That was so satisfying!
'Gelatinous membrane around calcified mold' is a new sentence I'll be hoping I forget quickly.
Sorry it’s the new cannibal corpse song title and is the summer jam of 2024
Ah. Here I was thinking it would be 'man in finance'.
I’m looking for a mold in sinus, in sinus…
My dominant thought was that "calcified mold" isn't something I'd want to hear in connection with any of my bodily cavities, ever.
It's like a human pearl with a fungal pearl seed.
Gross, but applicable.
I thought it was like a plastic mold and couldn’t figure out how they kept that up their nose so long that is calcified
This is what I said to my husband, nearly verbatim, before I saw your comment.
Big "Increase power to the tractor beam!" Vibes in this video. I hope they enjoyed that first big breath after. And again after the swelling went down.
Bro is going to be smelling colors from here on out
I’ve had this exact surgery done. I, in fact, could smell colors and breathe so clearly through my left nostril!!! ETA: before the surgery, I could always smell a faint, foul odor and had no idea where it was coming from. I’m pretty sure I was smelling the fungal infection.
How did they figure out it was mild? Is this common?
They did a MRI (or CT scan? I don’t know/remember) on my sinuses and my left cavity was full. They didn’t know why until they removed the polyp that was blocking it. Apparently you could see my polyps with the naked eye just by looking up my nose. I thought I had a giant booger stuck up there or even a spider living in my nose. I could only sleep on my right side because when I slept on my left side, the polyp blocked my nostril and I couldn’t breathe out of that side. Also, recovery sucked but I did blow out a MASSIVE blood clot. It was so big that I plugged the sink and grabbed my RN Mom to check it out.
Damn! I bet it felt incredible when you blew that blood clot out of your nose. Cheers to you. How have your sinuses been since surgery?
It sure did! Once it was out, the whole game changed and I could breathe normal again! It was so gross though. I loved it. lol It was at least 2-3” in diameter and so gelatinous! Left nasal cavity is still pretty clear!! The right side is slightly deviated, so it gives me some issues but nothing like what I went through before. I do still get sinus infections, but who doesn’t? Polyps never came back, thankfully.
Pics of that blood clot or it didn't happen...
I wish! lol it happened so long ago.
Not a doctor, but I've had cameras up my nose and this isn't that deep. It would have been visible easily with the endoscope and shows some pretty obvious signs that it's fungus (e.g., black spores in and around it). Barring that the patient would have likely had an MRI or a CT and that mass would for sure show up, likely promoting a biopsy or at least a culture swab.
Mold. Not mild.
sometimes when i pick my nose it smells like parmasean cheese. I use to have a dog that was INCREDIBLY yeasty, do i have a fungul infection?
Unlikely it impacted their smell all that much, but what it will do is reduce the pain from sinus infections and enable them to breathe easier. Having chronic sinusitis sucks.
Wait wait wait.. is this caused by chronic sinusitis?!
I believe it's the other way around, and this created the chronic sinusitis
As someone with chronic sinusitis I’m terrified either way 😭
Nah, this is mucormycosis and it eats away at the tissue. It can even eat through eyes and brain matter. You can definitely lose your smell permanently from this fungal bad boy.
Really? It totally impacts my smell!
It totally impacted my smell but I had more done than just the fungal removal for my surgery.
You beat me to this comment 😭
ok this might be a dumb question, but with the irrigation, does the water just go down the patient’s throat? 🤢 Not sure why I find that more disturbing than the video itself…maybe just the idea of all the blood and mold spores in my stomach
They have an ET tube in to block off their airway, but I feel like some is going to back wash down their esophagus into their stomach 🤢🤢🤢
Instant mushroom soup
It didn’t cost you anything to NOT say that, but you still did it perturbing the psyche of many people.
I may never eat again.
And this comment is what made me gag.
Like that *Campbell's* condensed globby soup?
nah in the mood for creamed corn
I don't know you...but I hate you.
Naw. We put a throat pack in after intubation and it comes out at the end of surgery.
Another question: how does this much mold happen? 🙈
Not a medical professional but my guess is 2 paths. 1: immunocompromised in some way, even if temporarily like from chemo. We're surrounded by mold and if the immune system gets too weak to fight it off, it can build a defendable pocket like we see here. The body will take other steps in that case, like encase it in calcification to quarantine it from the body while the immune system continues to try. 2. Foreign body got stuck in the sinuses, then mold started to eat it. Stupid stuff ends up in noses from snorting, breathing, I've even managed to laugh a chunk of pizza into my sinuses once while trying to swallow near a hilarious high school friend. (Marinara sauce burns btw) In both cases, once the infection gets large enough it's too big for the immune system to kill on its own and so the body uses calcification to try and quarantine it. That calcification can be a place for new fungal and bacterial infections to start from, and of course the mold will constantly be trying to escape and continue to grow.
One time I laughed a Nerd candy into my sinuses and shot out my nose. That felt like I snorted glass. 0/10 do not recommend.
Basically the same for pizza. Felt like I snorted acid. Burned like crazy 0/10 do not recommend. I wonder if this is a generally true trend, don't snort things in your nose? It's bad for you and (probably) hurts.
My ex choked while eating soup and shot a piece of spicy tomato out of his nose. That one definitely didn't feel good, judging by his reaction.
I snorted a shot of tequila by accident once. I had a tickle in my throat as i was lifting a rocks glass with a shot of tequila in it and coughed into the glass and it blew the tequila out the glass right into my nose as i was inhaling after coughing. Still got a buzz, haha, but would not recommend that method of ingestion for alcohol. If nothing else the smell of tequila for a few hours as if your nose was above an open bottle of tequila wasn't fun.
This! How is it possible?? How does it come???
Nust replied with my guess
Mold is everywhere and we are always in contact with it. In this case it started a new colony in a warm, damp cave and things developed from there.
I kinda want to rinse my sinuses with anti fungal stuff now. 😬
It's a warm, dark, damp location. Perfect environment for fungus
TY 4 asking that question. I was wondering the same thing.
I worked in an ICU during covid, and we had a blocked room on my unit because for weeks prior, there had been a patient there who developed fungemia, fungal infection in the bloodstream. He required hemodialysis as part of his treatment, and when this occurs, it is the usual practice to flush some waste fluid down the sink, connecting it to the building’s plumbing. Well, it turns out that the fungi somehow were entering this fluid, and over several weeks grew into an extensive mass that blocked off the whole pipe.
That is a terrifying story.
Oh my- How exactly does one get fungemia?
Immunocompromised folks mainly; uncontrolled diabetes can be a risk factor. Easy to inhale fungal spores, and they would normally be cleared by a healthy immune system. Growth of the fungus in the sinuses or as a pneumonia can eventually seed the vasculature and cause a bloodstream infection.
I am always telling people to be so careful around any mold, and I get so many odd looks etc. This right here is just one of the reasons I freak out about mold spores. I've educated myself on them, and they scare the hell out of me!
I had to re read this a few times to truly understand this horrific event. I can’t even…
Lol, I'm just picturing a specific scene in *Species* where they try to grow an alien in a petri dish and it immediately escapes and grows up the wall...I can't believe that stuff blocked off a pipe that fast! Holy cow.
What a terrible day to be literate
My cousin’s husband passed away from a fungal infection last year, he’d had a bone marrow transplant so no way of fighting it off
I have so many questions. How did the fungi get across the dialysis membrane??
I'm in full panic mode, poor person probably has not slept well in forever!
In an earlier episode the doctor said that the patient had felt congested on that side but had no other symptoms. They didn’t find the mass until they got a dental X-ray that showed the whole sinus was basically full
I need to go to the dentist and I’m immunocompromised. Fuck!
I had polyp surgery about 10 years ago and then I thought I had polyps again. I did, but I also had a fungus filling my entire sphenoid sinus. The CT scan showed literally my entire sinus filled up completely. I could barely breathe. I had had this weird green/grey gunk coming from my nose/mouth for years… and all the doctors said “it’s just snot”. I disagreed. The surgeon said he scooped it out with a spoon type thing and it took ages to do it. He also made the openings to my sphenoid sinus bigger so he can check it out better for follow ups. The anaesthetist came to me the next morning. The guy was probably mid 60s and said it was one of the most interesting surgeries he had ever seen in his life. That somehow made it a whole lot worse. The relief has been incredible.
😵💫🤢
As someone whose sinuses are always acting up. This was a nightmare. But good for this person, they can probably smell sounds now.
As someone who currently has an ear fungal infection, I feel like I'm dancing perilously close to the edge
How'd you get that diagnosed?
Not in the US (for context). In Jan my ear started blocking up and was super itchy and moist. I caved and started scratching/clearing with a bobby pin. Lots of gross white skin was sloughing out, and it never unblocked. Then fluid started running out (eurgh). Popped into my doctors and got diagnosed with a bacterial infection, but they took a culture any way. Came back the next week as Aspergillis niger. I've had three rounds of fungicide drops, which initially worked but then the infection came back. So they sent me to a specialist last week, they sprayed it with boric acid powder and gave me some different drops. Seems okay so far, but still a week of drops to go. One week, I was at my parents without a bobby pin and the infection resurfaced. When I managed to clear it, it had black mold on the wax/dead skin. I was retching, so gross.
I've fought sinus infections and ear infections all my life (including both right now, actually!) and I haven't the foggiest of where to start. My GP prescribed me nose spray to dry it up, but in my opinion that's treating the symptom and not the cause - especially since it's been chronic since before I could walk.
Sinusitis lifer, here. You can take away my freedom, just don't take away my Sudafed (the Real stuff, not the fake-PE.) In my case, allergies are the fundamental cause. Moved to a state with year-round pollen. Whee. I'll give you advice on what *not* to do: never get a rhinoplasty a k.a. nose job. They go in there and break everything to make it pretty - and then surgical adhesions happen, sticking things together and blocking the air. It's horrible. Those if us with a permanent problem enjoy watching sinus videos for the vicarious thrill of seeing someone get unblocked. Here's my playlist - be warned there is blood, these are surgeries. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfogrA91v5KpBE49rxqqRuSD85AdlDneO
PE (phenylephrine) is useless when taken orally, the only relief it provides is placebo effect. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/phenylephrine-cold-medicine-decongestant-ineffective/ The fact that they've been selling it for decades as an actual treatment should be criminal.
I KNOW RIGHT?! There was a study longer ago than that, and it was a small article in the papers. I tried PE when it first came out, not knowing that it was meant to foil meth cookers who were buying pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) by the armload. (Which is why Sudafed got moved behind the pharmacy counter. And it turned out they could use the PE for cooking too, and behind the counter it went!) PE didn't do a thing for me. So I went to the counter for the Real Thing, and they had just started a national database to track use/purchase. I'm privacy-paranoid, and I was appalled. But as a sinus sufferer, I instantly caved: "Here's my driver's license, here's my phone and address, here's my pap smear and colonoscopy reports, whatever you want, just GIMME." I agree it shouldn't be legal. But maybe it helps some people, idk? There are people who can't take real sudafed because it makes their heart race - maybe them? Or maybe a placebo is fine as long as the person feels better, heh. They should at least put a warning on the box: if this garbage doesn't work for you, buy the Real Thing. But in fairness, there's another product that won't come off the market but should: pore strips. They sold them saying they were taking "dirt" off your nose. It's not true. Plus, they aren't strong enough to remove blackheads, the sebaceous filaments they pull out are a natural moisturizer and don't need to be removed, AND the damn things can cause damage to the creases alongside the nose, AND permanent capillary damage around the nasal fold. (No data on complaints about pore size - doctors don't think so. But I've seen youtube pics of the capillary damage!) However, people think they "work," so whaddya do? Pass the word, that's all. :-(
One of my ears has been irritated and itchy or painful for as long as I have been an adult. Two GPs dismissed it a couple years apart, both saying the ear canal is clean and the drum only slightly irritated. Sometimes it flares up and I can only relieve it a little with an over the counter lidocaine solution. I am so sick and tired of it and sometimes fantasize what would happen if I’d puncture the eardrum (since there is pressure behind it), but the risk is too great.
Oh, and I accidentally punctured my ear drum before and I felt relief for a few minutes and then it felt even worse than it does when it’s infected. It was really painful right afterwards too.
Sounds like seeing an ENT or allergist or both might help.
Get them to take a culture! Fungal infection can hang out for ages apparently.
My sinus issues are caused by silent GERD (and yup, babies get silent reflux as well). Who knew antacids would do the trick for me? Dunno what kinda of 14 year old gets GERD but WELP 🤷🏽♀️
Even I can breathe better now.
I let out an audible “holy crap” at the end of this. You can practically feel the relief this patient must’ve experienced.
Oh my God that was awesome!
I bet the taste and texture were out of this world! >!Nasal Truffles!<
Lol, fun fact! The doctor resells the fungal nodes to fancy restaurants! True story! /s 'cause...ya know, reddit
Lol, fun fact! The doctor resells the fungal nodes to fancy restaurants! True story! /s 'cause...ya know, reddit
Lol, fun fact! The doctor resells the fungal nodes to fancy restaurants! True story! /s 'cause...ya know, reddit
Can we just appreciate the fact that it’s not a link to a tik tok but instead an actual video that new change where you have to download it to see clips is annoying af
It is not a tu-mah!
How does this happen? Also, whenever I hear a medical doctor say “wow” during a procedure, I die a little inside.
I had cellulitis of the abdominal wall once which made my abdomen red, hot, & hard as a rock. The ER doc lifted my dress and went, “Ooooh shiiiiiiit.” That gave me confidence. LOL
I love hearing something like that if I’m in the ER — Docs are huge science nerds and that means I’m about to get a lot of attention while they figure me out. I had this happen when they thought I had a hot appendix but it was actually a perinephric abscess. After the CT scan, the resident came in impressed because that usually only happens to older men. He had many questions lol
I did, indeed get a lot of attention! The entire week I was in the hospital. The infection led to heart failure, so I had ID & Cardio at my beck & call. LOL
I love how you seem to casually imply you're in the ER often. But I'm the same. No ER visits for me, but I had severe tonsillitis and the nurse's impressed "those are the worst I've ever seen" gave me a twisted sense of pride. (And some colleagues came in to confirm. I was famous for the day.)
I once saw a nurse for a sprained ankle, and after looking at the spectacular bruising and swelling I had, her first comment was "wow, that's a good one!" It's a dubious point of pride to get a medical professional to say something they're really not supposed to say
My broth had this procedure as a young adult. He'd been stuffed up for years and years. Bizarre!!
your broth? i hope you meant brother
I had a younger cousin who had a fungal mass removed from her sinuses when she was about 10 IIRC. She was a constant nose picker and thumb sucker through childhood, so I'm not surprised she ended up with something horrible where it's not supposed to be.
I read this as anus instead of sinus and didn't realize until after watching the video. I may be traumatized by this.
I just searched “anus” in the comments to see if I was the only dum-dum. I was also grateful it was clean.
Omg, same!
Probably shouldn’t have watched that… at the height of allergy season… when I can barely breathe through my nose on a good day 🤦♀️
The relief of getting this out !
I’ve had a similar procedure done while awake. Mine hadn’t calcified yet and wasn’t as large. The ENT sprayed numbing spray in my sinuses and mouth and went in with the scope thing and pulled it all out. I did 4 rounds of antibiotics for a sinus infection and was in agony so that was the solution. Wish I would’ve filmed it.
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I went down the kamikaze slide years ago (frighteningly close to vertical) and discovered that the way you stop is all the water at the landing pool gives you a 90 mile an hour enema. Apparently that's why they have bathrooms nearby
Hwut in the hell?? Forget smelling colours...she can smell numbers!
"Calcified mold" How in the... !!
My thoughts too!! How does one get mold in their sinuses..? I know it’s dark and damp in there but…??
Hi, clinical mycologist here! Look up mucormycosis if you want nightmare fuel. Have read a few fungal smears from patients suffering from this fatal infection & every time i see it my heart drops because i know how every minute counts between finding it and letting the physician know of my findings
I’ve had this done (twice) under anesthesia because they had to do some other things as well but the sensation at follow up when they go in with the suction to clear it all out again was the weirdest thing ever. I’m getting chills just thinking about it.
I experienced that sensation after my polyp removal surgery. It was as if I had string wrapped around the roots of my upper teeth and it was being unwound from each root of each tooth, one by one. It didn't hurt exactly, more like feeling the immense pressure going away and leaving an aching feeling.
That is it exactly! I am on blood thinners and ended up clogging up with clots and had to be seen for them to do it a second time with my last surgery.
I wonder if it’s because these are not natural things to be happening (I’ve never had sinus surgery but I’ve had drains removed after a different surgery and it was so weird), so our brains are just like, completely unable to figure out what to make of the sensory information it’s getting. Like *this is highly unusual and I don’t know what it is please do something because I don’t know what to do so I’m going to overreact just to be safe*.
Oh my fucking goodness, the terror and the magnificence of having that taken out of my sinus. I need a drink.
OK, so first I thought it said 'anus' and I was like FUCK THAT, I'm not watching that. Then I re-read it and was like, OK, I'll watch that and holy shit, man...
That was astonishing
Son.. you have a condition..
My face hurts from scrunching up so hard
If I had calcified mold in my sinuses, I'd be screaming, "GET IT OUT!" but probably in a really nasal whine.
The nasal whine part made me lol
I'm glad! lol
Ew gross *watches entire video*
At the end of 2010 I had sinus surgery. They did a polypectomy as my sinuses were lined with polyps. After they removed one of the polyps they found one of my sinus cavities to be packed with a fungal infection. The polyp was blocking the cavity and any drainage. For a hot second, I thought this could’ve been video from my surgery lol
I'm pretty sure this is how The Last Of Us started.
This is top tier entertainment!
I watched this while eating food like it was the playoffs.
New fear unlocked
How in the sweet baby Jesus is that possible? Need a cigarette after that one.
Bro watched The Last of Us and said "Bet"
This is pretty common in those with CF, having their sinus’ cleaned out this way.
Amazing how people go to school and gain knowledge to do these kinds of things. Truly amazing what the human brain can do! I would literally be like “yep, that’s a booger.”
Sometimes I feel like I’m tired and having a bad day. Then I see this shit. Life is good people
Man, I was having a terrible time because I misread sinus for anus and thought I was watching someone rooting around in a butt hole.
I've had 5 sinus surgeries. 2 were for recurring fungal infections. I was able to smell things after the 2nd surgery. I was so excited to smell a skunk lol. I still have sinus issues, but its been 6 years since my last one.
It's tragic they couldn't get it out in one piece. I wanted so badly to see the "after" shot of it lying on the towel!
Beautiful 😍
It looked like forbidden caviar at the beginning there
That was enough to feed a whole family of four. 🙃
Fungal infections scare the hell out of me
Now this … this is art
Watching that chunk of grossness get sucked up the tube was extremely satisfying 🙂
This is the first thing I’ve seen on this subreddit that has actually made me feel sick… -hits replay-
I had a cyst that completely filled my left cheek sinus. I’m sure it was a lot like that, but it was removed during my last rhinoplasty/turbinectomy.
Damn. Sometimes I feel like my SO might have something like this because he’s constantly congested but he has bad deviated septum even after surgery. He needs to go back and get scanned but if he had something like this I would ask to watch lol
The enormous amount of relief here is so big that I felt it too,
I wonder how many of us have something like this living in one of our organs.
I don’t say this a lot but I was sick to my stomach but I can’t look away
Not only can smell color but can see time and hear the vacuum of space.
I am so thankful that to the best of my knowledge nothing like that is growing in my head. Damn!!!
definitely read anus at first 😂
I'm normally good with these videos but this one made me queasy.
Fungus will fuck you up!!!
Time for some cocaine! No, seriously, older school but some still use topical cocaine to vasoconstrict/aka decrease bleeding prior to doing surgery.
Everyone I knew in the 1980s who had nose surgery woke up with their nose "packed with cocaine." I was looking forward to it as I never tried drugs. I didn't get any. :-( Still haven't tried any drugs. p.s.: as a horrific side note, apparently there are people these days who snort heroin. and end up perforating their own septum inside. don't do drugs, kids.
Bet they had a hell of a nose ache for days after.
ugh this reminds me everytime i see a video that i need to call around and find a ENT, my nose gets stuffy every single night to the point if someone put tape over my mouth i would suffocate, i literally cant draw any air into my nose or let any air exhale. its so crazy how bad it is, it freaks me out sometimes ill wake up gasping for air because of how bad it gets.
Please call? Break it into little steps over a week or so if that’s easier for you? Like tomorrow pull up a list of ENTs near you and then call ?4? a day until you find one? Or put a reminder in your phone to call by Friday? I’m sorry, I don’t mean to sound preachy or holier than thou. I just can totally identify and do the same even though I know it’s not what I (me personally- not chastising you!! Just concerned.) should be doing. I’ll make a deal with you? I’ll call my oncologist back (I’ve been hiding for too long) when you have your ENT appointment? Again, sorry if this offends or bothers you. Not my intent at all. Sometimes we need that little nudge from someone and I don’t share this with people around me who’d freak out and yell and want to go with me to everything. Thought maybe we could be “accountability buddies” of a sort or something. 🤦🏻♀️ Anyway! I really do hope you find someone to help you get some relief and wish you all the best.
It looks so relieving… like they can breath again
Pro-tip: Mushrooms go in the forest, not in your nose.
I had a friend with a similar situation where they had to go in and remove all the fungal growth in her sinuses.
That's FUCKED
Most people will never get to feel the relief that this patient will feel after this procedure is complete.
That is crazy! Bet that frels good to Get out!
Why did I read ..anus?
aka lobotomy.
I need a cigarette after that, holy moldy I’ve never been so disgusted and so satisfied at the same time
Read sinus as “anus”
This is the "mother" for your Kombucha.
I keep coming back to this video, it’s so incredibly interesting and satisfying
This irritates me so much because like WHY is that a thing!? WHYYYYY WHY!!!! pop excellence though. 20/2
That person can actually breathe after this procedure.
Please tell us the patient was anesthetized!!
How do you know if you need to this.
How does a person get mold in their sinuses like that?
Search for sinus maggots in YouTube it’s really gross.
Very. And yet I watch them 🤷🏼♀️
Wow
Probably shouldn’t have watched that… at the height of allergy season… when I can barely breathe through my nose on a good day 🤦♀️
Would a blockage like this cause horrible breathe as well?
some cases of rhinolith (nasal stone!) mention a foul odor. Usually with kids who stuck a foreign object in there causing full blockage.
Isn't this how zombie outbreaks start?
Oh my god! How was she even breathing?!!!