Went to See A Doctor Yesterday

[Paul2]

I told him my left nose have trouble breathing and its in pain.  I told him my left temple is in pain, the top of my eyebrown is in pain.  he said the sinusitis problem doesn\'t cause my head and eyebrow to swell.  He say he can cure the nostril breathing problem with a surgery, but he say he don\'t know if that is going to help the headache away or the frowning of the left eyebrown.  He said he don\'t think the swelling of the nose causes the head or the eyebrow to sore, so he said he wanted me to go to a different doctor and get a second opinion before deciding to have the surgery or not.  He said i have to breathe with my mouth open for three days from the surgery.

So, i know doctors study really hard and are pretty smart people and all.  They make a lot of money but this guy is very pushy and not understandable about my situation.

There is a saying, "if it ain\'t broke, don\'t fix it."  I think that\'s true to me when i was little because my mom gave me a nose surgery when i around 10, 11 years old.  That time, i was breathing normally, she made a wrong assumption that i have trouble breathing.  She didn\'t ask me if i am breathing okay because i was, and she made the wrong decision for giving me a surgery on my nose.  I have no clue i am getting a surgery that time until she took me to a doctor and i was shocked when he took out a needle and shoved it into my nose.  Because of this wrong uneccessary surgery, i have trouble breathing and chronic headache, like a trauma.

Because of the headache, i can\'t function normally, and i am kinda scare of getting a surgery, this time is more serious because i think he\'s going to gas me and open up my nose or something and move my nose both to the correct position so i can breathe.

But i am worry if the surgery would help me breathe better and if it going to get rid of my headache or not.

So, i don\'t know if i should take the chance and get the surgery or should i rather suffer from chronic headache?...

[videoholic]

How bad and often are the headaches?

Headaches suck.  If you know this will cure them, then it would be hard to not do it. Surgeries suck though.  THey are all risky.

Isn\'t it called a deviated septum? I\'ve got that too, not much you can do about it except  the surgery, and it is quite painful too I might add. I have sinus problems too, but for the most part if you drink lots of water it will help clear your sinus problems when you have them, that and sinus meds.

my mom got into a cat fight and got a deviated septum

[Paul2]

glad to hear i am not alone...

mjps, did you had a nose surgery?

i think my breathing problem would have been normal, its because my mom gave me a wrong surgery on my nose when she thought i had trouble breathing when it turns out i didn\'t.  Now i have to suffer from pain.  Its suck.

no, I didn\'t have the surgery it wasn\'t necessary. Only problem it probably caused me was getting my tonsils taken out, cuz I\'d always have my sinus drainage down the bakc of my throat.

My mom has to have surgery because of it Paul.

I should have gotten my tonsils taken out long ago, I prolly could now but I\'m too much of a slacker/p*ssy to do it.  You see.. they\'re HUGE, like gargantuan.  Every doctor I see notices them.  I just want them out for better breathing during sleep and better breath.  Wish we could FF 200 years where surgeries would be cheap and take 15 minutes. :o

oh sorry for the brain fart, hope you make the right choice.  I think you should seek out help from others in your situation and get their advice.  There are much more medical advancements since you first got your surgery, I\'m betting the surgeon knows what he\'s talking about.

[Paul2]

excuse my stupidity, what the heck is tonsil?  Why do you guy need to take it out?  Sound painful...

I don\'t know if i have deviated septum, but my nose bone it crooked to the right side, i can breathe throught the right, but my left nose bone kinda squish inward, and that where it causes this weird pain.  The unnecessary surgery i had back then causes my nose bone to squish inward, he shove the needle and push it inward, it is causing me pain.

I am still piss at my mom, like i said, if it ain\'t broke don\'t fix it...but damn, i don\'t know what was my mom thinking...she should at least ask me if i have trouble breathing instead of guessing and giving me the damn surgery without telling me...my nose bone is normal, and the unnecessary "fix" had cause me some chronic pain.

Vivi, did you mom feel better after the surgery or the same or worst?

My mom, she said she had trouble breathing, and she snore in her sleep.  She decided to have a surgery on her nose where she shove the needles in the bones....don\'t know if she breathe better, but she still snore when she sleep.  And she thought i have the same symptoms, in truth, i don\'t snore when i sleep and most importantly, i am breathing normally.  Because of the damn surgery....
Sometimes i wonder, what had been done, can be undone....and i wonder if the surgery can undone it....

She hasn\'t had it yet, but its always a pain to her. She has the same symptoms you have.

A tonsil is something in your mouth next to your uvala(the hanging tear drop looking thing) and I think its for controlling food to swallow.