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MelissaClaire
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Posted: Jan 11 2011 at 9:34am \| IP Logged

Does anyone have a child who has undergone the sinus balloon surgery for bad sinus issues? Our 7 yo son has always been stuffed up and a year and a half ago he was allergy tested (allergic to mold and ragweed primarily) and has been undergoing allergy shots since then. He also takes Allegra and Patanase nasal spray. It improved it for a bit, but lately it just seems worse. When the allergist looked up his nose the first time she said, "If an ENT saw this they'd recommend surgery right away, but let's see what we can do with meds and shots."

Fast forward 18 months--he's up at night congested, dark circles always under his eyes, has difficulty chewing with his mouth shut because he can't breathe through his nose. We take him to our ENT who schedules a head CT to look at his sinuses. On looking at the results even an untrained eye can see the difference between the "normal" picture and his. He's completely blocked.

ENT is now recommending the sinus balloon surgery and adenoids out. He said medicine alone cures cases like my son's 10% of the time. Shots and meds work about 40% of the time, but this surgery helps in about 90% of cases.

Anyone have experience with the surgery? Was it helpful for your child? I'd love to get him off all these meds and spare him a life of constant discomfort, but I'm not a fan of surgery, but I feel like we've been trying everything else already and it's just not helping him.

Thanks!

Melissa

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Posted: Jan 11 2011 at 12:59pm \| IP Logged

I'm not familiar with it at all. But I know what it's like to be stuffed up from allergies.. and to live like that always would be terribly difficult.

It's gotta be a hard decision

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Posted: Jan 13 2011 at 6:41am \| IP Logged

Thank you for your kind words!

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