I have had a problem with allergies and a deviated septum for years. I declined having surgery to correct the deviated septum when I was in my 20s (now 47). I went to an ENT doctor the other day and he put me on Nasonex. I had been using Flonase for years but it was causing a lot of bleeding and dryness in my nose. The ENT doctor said that if the Nasonex did not help, I might consider getting nasal coblation. This is an in-office procedure that is done to shrink the tubinates in the nose.

Has anyone out there had any experience with this procedure?

Scruffy

Scruffy,
First, go in the net and type in nasal coblation, you'll find a good description. Flonase causes bleeding sometimes if you use it incorrectly, it cannot be sprayed directly onto nasal tissue and, while using any nasal spray, it's also helpful to use a saline nose spray (from any drugstore); use it to keep nose hydrated. Nasonex...hope you have better luck than I did...didn't work for me. And, nasal turbinates are the bony areas covered in tissue (of course,)they are not the tissue. If your doc decides on a turbinate reduction, know that its removal of the bony areas, not tissue reduction as in the coblation. Hope this helps! Good luck and use the net for more research, you can actually find all details of these ops on there.