Chronic pain in forehead months after sinus surgery

@reginad so sorry this happened to you! I have similar issues after sinus surgery. I am well informed on many issues tho. Those meds will cause harm to your brain and body. The doctors are gaslighting you. Then poisoning you. Get to the root of the problem and resolve it. You will now have extra medical issues down the road. Resulting from the meds. Always get informedand advocate for yourself. Don't take the pills unless you really investigate them. Gaba is a pretty serious harmful drug. (Any brain altering drug is)
Good luck

@elizabeth44 good luck my ent surgeon gave me nerve damage in my face. Death is the best option for me now that i have no quality of life.

@jane2020 I am so sorry you had this bad experience with your surgery. Can't any other ENT try to fix the damage? I had my surgery in 2023 and thank God I feel fine. Every once in a while I get an infection, but I use the rinse with polysporin and it clears because my doctor does not want me to take any antibiotics unless extremely necessary. I hope you can find a solution to that problem and I want to feel positive that something can be done to repair your issue.

@wtj46 This exact thing is happening to me now. Any advice? Uveitis developed, but even as we’re concluding treating that, the constant eye/teme pain and headaches/ear pressure is ruining my life. I’m 4weeks out. Only one side got trashed. I’m so mad at myself — I’d give anything to go back to clogged sinuses. This simple non-invasive procedure was a huge, life-changing mistake. I can’t do much of anything because of the pain.

@orienteer I am so sorry to hear this. I passed 3 years in February and am still dealing with a constant headache. I still have really bad days and some not so bad days where I can function relatively normally. I have tried 30+ migraine medicines and am getting some relief when using my emergency meds Ubrelvy or Fiorect immediately when I feel the onset of a bad headache starting. My neurologist I’d treating me as a migraine patient and the drugs I am on now include the 2 above, plus Ajovy once a month, Botox every 12 weeks, and Symbravo and Acetazolamide which I take either or both with Ubrelvy or Fioricet, if the pain does not improve. They all can make me drowsy or sometimes dizzy, but better to feel that way then a debilitating headache. The limited 8 pills of Ubrevly a month make it difficult to decide if the headache will get bad enough to justify it, but if I take them at onset, they really are helping me recently. The amount of drugs you need to trial before you can get any of the above drugs is maddening, but once you can get these prescriptions, I feel they are helping. I have also noticed air pressure changes can trigger headaches as well. My biggest culprit is stress. I also occasionally take Clonazepam or a muscle relaxant like Cyclobenzeprine (but not together!) if the headache just gets moderately worse. Hang in there! I typically check this website several times a week. I am happy to help with any advice or questions you may have. I hope you find good doctors to help you manage this. Please share anything that you find helps you. My best guess is that we both had nerve damage during the balloon sinuplasty.

When removing cancer from our Sinus, our heads and necks are in positions for access. This is having our neck over backwards as far as it will go, for HOURS! Post surgery even the team of pain specialists were clueless to how me neck had become severely spasmed to cause INTENSE and continuing migraine, barely pain at surgery site. After another experience I talked with my surgeon who said my info would help many others: post surgery even, I needed ice on my neck and muscle relaxer! Not just more morphine. So 20 years after that and following radiation, I still fight chronic pain with neck spasm reducers like heat, trigger point dry needling, stretches and VERY important TRACTION! For a while the traction reduced neck spasm headaches, w/o meds, by 80%. Botox is just a poison that takes at least 3 months to flush system, and for me, left my neck dangerously useless. I use inflatable traction pillow thing, not hang from a door sill. Almost anyone living with intense chronic pain, doesn’t want to take medications. I’ve spent lots of time and money searching other options including recognizing the late effects of radiation contribute to TBI, changes in smell, hearing, eyesight, dental and neck issues. I believe the fact is: surviving chronic pain may come down to finding the right med for each person and taking them without embarrassment, either as needed or on a schedule. Quality and enjoyment of life (not drug induced high) is the goal so we can be independent and help others. If this shortens my life by a few years, at least the living years are productive.