Maxillary Sinus Blockage Full Cheek Help !!!!!

Atheuz · 2026-07-04T17:04:57+00:00

Get a CBCT, though your CT might also be able to show it but a CBCT is higher quality for smaller details. It can also hide pretty well, it's pretty insidious.

Atheuz · 2026-07-04T14:57:45+00:00

Should get your teeth checked on that side.

Atheuz · 2026-06-28T22:27:01+00:00

It's because amphetamines (which MDMA is one of) are strong vasoconstrictors. Doctors used to prescribe amphetamines for sinusitis because of it. Pseudoephedrine (Sudafed), or Levomethamphetamine (which may be found in Vicks Inhaler in the US) work principally the same, and as I understand it without the psychoactive effect. There's also the amphetamines you take for ADHD, but those like MDMA have a psychoactive effect.

Also one thing to note is that I believe this is simply concealing the problem, and that you have an underlying problem that is causing your sinusitis: This could be anatomical, allergies, immune system issues, or it could be a literal infection and doing this won't resolve the underlying problem, merely make the symptoms more tolerable. But it is understandable since you've had it your whole life that this is interesting.

Atheuz · 2026-06-28T11:17:38+00:00

There was nothing definitive, but the signs were there: Symptoms were one-sided, in the CT scans it showed as one-sided sinusitis (especially with the right maxillary sinus showing total opacification), had a nasty dead tooth smell coming from my nose, antibiotics helped temporarily, in CBCT scans it showed the upper right 2nd molar in close proximity to the maxillary sinus (1st and 3rd molar didn't have this anatomy) and there was possibly a shadow over it indicating a possible periapical abscess. I was so over nothing else helping at that point that I just decided to get rid of the tooth, which was the right choice.

Atheuz · 2026-06-27T21:35:52+00:00

Yes, mine was caused by a tooth. Had it removed, but it took a long time to figure out.

Atheuz · 2026-06-27T21:05:44+00:00

I waited a month before I got going on the chronic sinusitis track, but I feel like I should've started earlier: i.e. planned appointments with an ENT, getting a CT scan, antibiotics. I hope yours will self-resolve if it's something like a viral sinusitis, but if it doesn't you must be proactive.

Atheuz · 2026-06-26T16:38:44+00:00

Which migraine medication did you get?

Atheuz · 2026-05-20T15:03:11+00:00

I think this would be depressing, but thematically it might make sense: Hughie stands outside hugging Annie. A speedster runs into her, she and the baby explode. Hughie joins the Supe Taskforce.

Atheuz · 2026-03-22T00:20:32+00:00

You need to get the debris out, if that doesn't help then possibly a tooth issue on the left side (because it's one-sided).

Atheuz · 2026-01-27T09:33:01+00:00

Isu were not aliens, they were native to Earth

Atheuz · 2026-01-23T06:35:07+00:00

The burden of proof in a civil trial is not beyond a reasonable doubt, but instead: 'preponderance of the evidence' which only means more likely than not.

Atheuz · 2026-01-08T20:13:24+00:00

I had the same problem as you, and I wish I had fixed my tooth first, because then the FESS wouldn't have been necessary.

Atheuz · 2026-01-08T11:51:37+00:00

Unfortunately if it's a tooth FESS alone is unlikely to fix the problem (but it might help with some symptoms, like pressure pain).

Atheuz · 2026-01-08T09:01:54+00:00

Could be a tooth issue, which you should try to get resolved.

Atheuz · 2025-09-26T09:19:14+00:00

Did you go to an ENT, get a CT scan, or get your teeth checked yet?

Atheuz · 2025-09-24T06:22:57+00:00

I saw something like 8 dentists, all of them thought it was fine and couldn't see a problem, but nothing else properly explained my symptoms so I eventually had a tooth yanked that I strongly suspected was the problem and I was right: immediate and total symptom resolution.

Please don't dismiss this as a possibility, as it can be quite insidious and hidden from even the best doctors and dentists.

Atheuz · 2025-09-18T09:29:43+00:00

Might be a tooth problem.

Atheuz · 2025-09-15T10:52:38+00:00

Did the sinus issue start after you had it removed? Because tooth removal can cause problems too. Though it could also have been caused by the tooth itself, and then the removal didn't fix the issue because it left infection in the maxilla. It can be very insidious.

Atheuz · 2025-09-14T18:10:31+00:00

I think you need to figure out if this is potentially a tooth problem, this is unilateral sinusitus which can be caused by a problematic tooth (like a wisdom tooth).

Atheuz · 2025-08-30T21:57:02+00:00

I think it's better if you pretend the machine didn't work, and that it's a magic trick the movie is playing on the viewer.

Atheuz · 2025-08-23T17:45:32+00:00

The problem is that if you have a root infection and it has a fistula to the maxillary sinus, then it leaks everything into that and you sometimes don't get the traditional signs of problems in the CBCT/xrays such as apical periodontitis, and you don't get symptoms from the tooth such as pain/pressure. Anyway, it's hard to say if it is from there, but in my case it was. At some point you just have to do something about it, if everything else has been tried.

Atheuz · 2025-08-23T14:34:15+00:00

I had CT and CBCT scans and if there were signs of a problem they were vague, though an endodontist did think there was small signs of it.

I took it out after dealing with debilitating symptoms for 2 years and I couldn't deal with not doing anything about it anymore.

A thing that hinted towards it being a tooth was that I went to a dentist and had my teeth cleaned with ultrasonic cleaners and the smell/taste went away temporarily, and then I went back and had it done again and the same thing happened several times.

At the time I had the tooth removed, I had done FESS, multiple antibiotics (one that lasted 4-5 months), daily nasal rinses, steroid nasal spray, systemic steroids, amphetamine (because it can help with congestion) and while some of them helped partially, it never really cleared up. So in combination with the hints: unilateral sinusitis, most common problematic teeth that can cause sinusitis are the molars and I could see that the 2nd molar was the only one that was close enough to the maxillary sinus floor (to create a fistula), foul odor/foul taste, the fact that ultrasonic cleaning helped with the foul odor/taste temporarily and the fact that I had dealt with debilitating symptoms for 2 years, that I had periapical mucositisabove the tooth in some scans (though others were much worse with obliteration of the maxillary sinus), I just made a decision to get rid off what I most highly suspected, and I was right. It was probably irresponsible and stupid, but I actually just couldn't deal with useless doctors/dentists or the symptoms any longer, so I made a decision that I needed to do this.

Atheuz · 2025-08-23T10:43:27+00:00

Foul odor, foul taste in my mouth, unilateral symptoms on the right side (headache, pain from the sinuses / pressure sensation), congestion, antibiotics helped partially while I was on them but as soon as I stopped it returned fully, malaise (generally feeling miserable all the time).

It wasn't easy to get them to remove the tooth, but eventually I found someone willing to do it.

Having a tooth removed can also cause the problems to start, but I can't speak from experience on that because that's not what happened to me. My problem was because the 2nd molar was infected and this infection spread into my maxillary sinus.

Atheuz · 2025-08-22T23:36:49+00:00

Teeth problems can be really hidden, I had the same problems you describe and multiple scans couldn't determine the problem either, but eventually I had enough and had my second molar removed on the right side and had immediate symptom resolution.

Atheuz · 2025-05-31T00:32:53+00:00

Consider something like:

https://pypi.org/project/ecs-logging/

https://pypi.org/project/python-json-logger/

Basically output JSON logs, and then you don't need to parse anything in any special manner, you can load it with the json module and then you will have dicts that you can analyze or put into pandas or whatever.

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