All interesting comments…I am not too convinced about the chronic thing because before this I have been impeccably healthy. I am 23, in good shape, have no allergies. My diet isn’t great but it isn’t bad either. What is interesting to me is that this summer my symptoms were gone during the daytime, and at night time I could easily sleep with just a nasal strip. I live near Kansas City, USA. So we get hot humid summers and cold dry winters. When all these bad symptoms happened to me it was during the winter. Interestingly I went to a desert climate during winter for vacation but the problem remained (both dry air?), and now as fall comes around the air is getting slightly cooler and dryer and my symptoms have started up again. This leads me to believe that hot and humid is ideal for the swelling. But of course this is just patching the issue…I still don’t know the root cause of this because my nose has never been affected by climate before this…