Post Nasal Drip: Cure after sinus surgery, how long?
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:21 pm
I decided to undergo a sinus surgery to get rid of PND.
How long does it take until the PND will go away, if the surgery was a success? The doctor said it takes about half a year until the tissue is completely recovered. Is that true?
The surgery:
They shrinked my turbinates, corrected my septum and opened the ethmoid and maxillary cells. And they took small portions of the tissue inside my maxillary cells, the "sick" tissue. Still there is no effect after a few weeks. I haven't completely recovered by now, but the symptoms I had before (see below) didn't go away.
Symptoms of PND:
I suffer from one-sided PND. The clear or whitish mucus drips down on one side of my nose/throat. I have to clear my throat often and my voice is sometimes hoarse in the evening from all that mucus. During sports I meanwhile spit a lot of sticky mucus from my throat (even more sticky). And I tend to have more and more acute sinus infections, which lead primarily to massive PND during the night, so that I can't sleep without pills.
The PND should come from the nose. After the surgery I had that tamponade in my nose, so it was completely stuck and I breathed through my mouth. I didn't have PND during that time.
How long does it take until the PND will go away, if the surgery was a success? The doctor said it takes about half a year until the tissue is completely recovered. Is that true?
The surgery:
They shrinked my turbinates, corrected my septum and opened the ethmoid and maxillary cells. And they took small portions of the tissue inside my maxillary cells, the "sick" tissue. Still there is no effect after a few weeks. I haven't completely recovered by now, but the symptoms I had before (see below) didn't go away.
Symptoms of PND:
I suffer from one-sided PND. The clear or whitish mucus drips down on one side of my nose/throat. I have to clear my throat often and my voice is sometimes hoarse in the evening from all that mucus. During sports I meanwhile spit a lot of sticky mucus from my throat (even more sticky). And I tend to have more and more acute sinus infections, which lead primarily to massive PND during the night, so that I can't sleep without pills.
The PND should come from the nose. After the surgery I had that tamponade in my nose, so it was completely stuck and I breathed through my mouth. I didn't have PND during that time.