previous surgery for deviated septum - Allergies Message Board

cristyann · 07-17-2003, 03:20 PM

Hi,

I had another question concerning my breathing difficulties. I am not sure if this is the category for this under allergies but I had a deviated septum in my nose operated on at age 25 and am 47 now. It did not help my breathing at all. The surgery now to me seemed totally useless. I have even though now that my right side of my nose is more collapsed than ever. Ive been told years ago by ent doc that i had like 80 percent colapse on the right side in terms of my breathing. This I do not need on top of my allergies. I did some surfing online about this surgery and am reading now that many people have actually gotten worse after this type of surgery requiring a stint of some kind put inside of their nose to keep it open up.

any comments on this, I hope this is ok to post here. I am a newbie on this forum

cristyann

BathBeachBoy · 07-21-2003, 01:39 PM

I too had the deviated septum, I had the operation twice. I still hav a little trouble breathing, why....because of these allergies. Ugh, scents...perfumes, colognes, just kill me.
But it is still better than the first operation, the second one did help more. I would def do it again. It has also improved especially with the packing it is not as barbarach. I had the first in 1983 then 1999.