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From: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
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Subject: Re: deviated septum surgery--will it really relieve sinus headaches??
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 12:34:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 12:34:52 1985
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Reply-To: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
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In article <4417@alice.UUCP> bea@alice.UucP (Bea Chambers) writes:
>My husband has a deviated septum and has had sinus headaches for years. Usually,
>he would get them for a day or two and they would go away. Now, for the
>first time, his headaches are constant. His doctor has strongly suggested
>a septoplasty--an operative procedure to correct the deviated septum and to
>remove a large spur of bone and cartilage which is blocking the area of the left
>maxillary sinus osteum and impacting into the left inferior turbinate.
>( Lest you think I am a doctor with all those long words, I am not. I copied
>this from the doctor's notes). Both of us go into a small panic at
>the thought of any surgery. Has anyone out there had a deviated septum
>corrected by surgery and has the surgery helped? I would hate to see him 
>go through surgery and still have headaches. 

I had a similar operation just to make breathing easier and it helped 
my general sinus condition very markedly.  I did not have such frequent
headaches, but I did have frequent very long colds and infections which
have disappeared completely (if I get a cold now it is a 3-day affair),
and no sinus infections at all.  It has been about l8 months now.  I still
have an occaisional sinus headache when the weather is really conducive to
it for several days.  None of this proves anything of course.  I commented
on the operation in response to another article on this net today but will
respond again if you wish.  It was an easy operation, although I feel as
you do that hospitals are risky places to be!  
Susan