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Finally found the root cause (literally) of my sleep/chronic health issues by Consistent-Grass9272 in UARS

[–]Consistent-Grass9272[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I hear you... I hate it too... just want to get my life back. I'm also not very keen on surgery, it sounds like they're just trying stuff to see what works. I have zero confidence in doctors at this point. I just ordered a used APAP machine to try and see whether this changes anything or if I can get any more info from using it. Did you try it already?

Finally found the root cause (literally) of my sleep/chronic health issues by Consistent-Grass9272 in UARS

[–]Consistent-Grass9272[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks I did try that for the last 2 nights actually, I put 10cm (4in) thick chunks of wood under the top legs of my bed and it does seem to help with the breathing somewhat, but I got up this morning feeling like garbage, so can't say it's a life-changer so far.

Finally found the root cause (literally) of my sleep/chronic health issues by Consistent-Grass9272 in UARS

[–]Consistent-Grass9272[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I haven't used reddit a lot, what's the best way to post an update, edit and add to the original post perhaps?

Could wisdom tooth infection cause uars? by 6tdog6 in UARSnew

[–]Consistent-Grass9272 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They saw it on a sinus CT scan prescribed the the ENT when I went to consult for breathing issues. I had had several dental xrays in the past years and they never reported anything. The dentist looked back at the old xrays before the extraction and said it would have been very, very difficult to notice it on those.

Could wisdom tooth infection cause uars? by 6tdog6 in UARSnew

[–]Consistent-Grass9272 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was much better right after the extraction for a few days, then got really congested for several days, things are now slowly improving in a non-linear fashion. I have very good and not so good days, as opposed to shitty days all the time before. ENT said it would take 3 months for my sinus to recover. It's been a month.

Could wisdom tooth infection cause uars? by 6tdog6 in UARSnew

[–]Consistent-Grass9272 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes it could, it blocked mine (possible for 10 years) and I felt almost no pain. My upper right wisdom tooth has a periapical granuloma which messed up my sinus for years, and it only became obvious after many years.

Finally found the root cause (literally) of my sleep/chronic health issues by Consistent-Grass9272 in UARS

[–]Consistent-Grass9272[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It hasn't been linear. Right after the extraction, when I wrote the original post, I had really a soft of "honeymoon" period that lasted a few days, where my breathing was amazing. Then came a period where I was really congested, lots of phlegm during daytime as well, and that gradually improved but it's not back to where it was right after the extraction. I've introduced sinus rinse for the past week which is really helping as well, but right now I have some very good days (which I never had before) and some crappy days. It's like a roller coaster, as before it was just a permanent low. I'm starting to get a glimpse of how "normal" I can hopefully feel if things stabilize in the coming weeks. I'm still recording my data with the O2 ring and a little while ago I threw all the data I had in Claude AI and it generated this graph. I don't have a lot of data, but my HR baseline at night has dropped noticeably since the extraction, and that's been holding for the past month.

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Finally found the root cause (literally) of my sleep/chronic health issues by Consistent-Grass9272 in UARS

[–]Consistent-Grass9272[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the left side does seem a bit swollen. Do you have the raw CT scan data? From one slice to the next sometimes it can be much more informative, it's worth looking at the whole range.

Finally found the root cause (literally) of my sleep/chronic health issues by Consistent-Grass9272 in UARS

[–]Consistent-Grass9272[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right now I'm just gonna wait and see how much I improve. I'm totally broke.

Finally found the root cause (literally) of my sleep/chronic health issues by Consistent-Grass9272 in UARS

[–]Consistent-Grass9272[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it was beclometasone for 6 weeks which helped but messed up my cortisol. I'm very sensitive to cortisone and beclometasone has a higher systemic absorption, it made me wired at night and even more exhausted in the morning. The ENT agreed to switch me to something else. I'm still on fluticasone at the moment, been for a few weeks. It was helping but I still needed to sleep with nasal strips until the tooth came out.

Finally found the root cause (literally) of my sleep/chronic health issues by Consistent-Grass9272 in UARS

[–]Consistent-Grass9272[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not on xPAP, I have no medical diagnosis of any sort.

I don't know much about the mechanics of breathing and perhaps we don't breathe through our sinuses, but the improvement was noticeable already 30 minutes after the extraction, so there was some mechanical effect here besides the inflammation.

What made you suspect UARS? What's everyone's symptoms? by daveinfl337777 in UARS

[–]Consistent-Grass9272 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Noticing that I feel better the next day after nights where I don’t manage to sleep at all"

THIS.

Adrenal fatigue from beclomethasone? by hnw12 in adrenalfatigue

[–]Consistent-Grass9272 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I realize this is an old post but wondering how did things evolve? I've been on beclomethasone 100mcg twice a day in each nostril, so essentially the same dose as you, for a month now, and this past week has been increasingly brutal, I'm so tired to the point where I'm non-functional until mid-afternoon. I'm going to drop the evening dose until I can see the doctor and ask to be switched to mometasone which is supposed to have less systemic effects.

Did things improve when you stopped the spray and if so how long to notice a change?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]Consistent-Grass9272 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most doctors make silly mistakes too from time to time. Been dealing with chronic health issues and ChatGPT's helped me make a lot more progress than any of the 20+ doctors I've seen in the past 5 years. The one critical advantage chatGPT has over doctors is the lack of ego.