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Posts Tagged ‘endoscopic sinus surgery’

This is snot about migraine…

February 9th, 2008

Okay, I just had to share this.  I’m up past my bed time, getting punchy.  In the continuing quest for relief from my recurrent sinus infections we are considering whether surgery to remove nasal polyps might be helpful.  Apparently there is a frequent correlation between seasonal allergies or asthma (I’ve got the allergies, not the asthma), aspirin allergy (which I have) and nasal polyps.  My doctor wants me to research this connection, known as Samter’s Triad.

So I’m on pubmed.gov reading these medical studies all written in medical jargon and all very serious… So here’s one about “Medical and surgical considerations in patients with Samter’s triad” and they’re going on about doing “functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS)” and then the patients were CT scanned and they measured the FESS results by a test called (I kid you not) the “Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (SNOT-20).”

So if I go through with this – you can ask me “hey, how’d your SNOT test come out?”  “We were hoping for a better outcome – but all we got was the same old SNOT…”

Who said doctors have no sense of humor?

– Megan

Gotta laugh, otherwise we’d cry.

Tags: endoscopic sinus surgery, nasal polyps, Samter's Triad, sinus infection
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