Sinusitis FAQ

End of amoxicillin dose (10 days)

Question:

Yesterday marked the end of my round of antibiotics, day 10. Today, I experienced the same color of ‘mucus production’ in my left sinus, yellow-opaque in color. Upon reading the posts in here, I’m realizing that this THING may be indeed chronic w/o any end in sight. However, my energy level HAD (past tense?) improved, SOME taste came back, if ever intermittent. Conclusion? Not much hope for any recovery except for the nasal irrigation. Yesterday found me getting a brand new box of bicarb soda, salt minus iodine, and h. peroxide. I made a batch of the dry goods in a hard plastic container, washed it well with water and bleach, dried it with a paper towel. I had been using my ‘old’ b. soda,’old’ in the shelf god knows how old, peroxide, figuring (?) if it kills bacteria it may not have a shelf life. Frustrated and overwhelmed with other problems, took the least lines of resistance in that area previously. Against the nurs. prac’s advice, I opted to use perioxide only, minimally about a half a teaspoon’s worth per 4 oz, and gave myself 2 doses of this amt. in the handy bottle I figured would work just fine. No regrets on the minimal dose I self prescribed via h. peroxide. No severe burning, just a whoah, sorta feeling and a need to put a cold washcloth on my external nose to have a bit of cooling effect, but other than about a minute of that, I was fine. Now, since the infection is on the left maxillary side, I pose this question… my stategy is one of, bending over the bathroom sink, face down, most always, or to the ’side’ never exacting a method til I read of another’s dilemma over how to drain the left maxillery side, if at all possible, so that got me thinking and perhaps DR. Grossan can advise? I started after the initial flow of the bottle was done, then turned my head to the RIGHT, thinking it would then flow to the LEFT somehow irrigated the maxillary area, I hope to God, and HELP this annoying misery in some geographic way. During this miserable mundane ordeal, I wondered, is there such a thing too, as aspiration of infection in a delicate manner, that would END this, over the invasiveness of surgery, dispite laproscopic technic? Given the things we have now, visually and so much that would visualize surgery to a factor of eliminating the INFECTION and drain it minus cutting and recovery as it all seems so simple in my theory of thought, over any cuttage of tissue on / in the face. My dread, is that once the antibiotics now consumed are worn "off" that this thing will return in the same misery that it originated with. However, I plan to irrigate well, about 3 x’s daily, and keep on top of it as best I can, and hope that I do not have to go return for a cat scan of my sinus area.. or have a test to determine the strain of infection that plagues me. It does feel ’still there’ I can tell. Taste is still obliterated; smell is nil,or maybe about oh… 15% or so, tops. So thats telling. I’d give anything, to ’smell the roses’ in more than one. To be denied such a simple joy, we had (yeah had..) taken for granted is surely something I won’t believe I ‘d do again. Dara

Response:

..I think amoxicillin is just prescribed to satisfy those people who go to the Dr., and aren’t happy unless they leave with a prescription. ..It worked fine 25 years ago, but now for sinusitis, it appears to be as ’bout as powerful as a placebo.  …I would suggest a prescription of levaquin — 3 weeks minimum.   …Jon

Response:

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:57:51 -0800, irish-d…@webtv.net (~

Filed under: Nasal irrigation

Related Posts

• Nasal bleeding
• Flonase
• Stuffy Nose Advise, Please
• Please explain difference in salt sprays
• How to use a Saline Nasal Spray
• smoke and sinus flare up
• Questions Post Surgery
• Is it possible to liquefy the thick mucus?
• Oh, and a theory.....
• Sinus -it's killing me!