@ess77 -Elizabeth-thank you for sharing your story and experience.

The only way to make people more aware of the damaging risks of all ENT surgeries are to speak up about them.

As a patient in an ENT office, you will never get the full real scope of the risks. If anyone thinks for one second an ENT surgeon actually documents the damage done to their patients and then repeats their statistics to a new prospective patient then they are naive. Every ENT is trained to say the same thing when it comes to risks/benefits. Only 10% of patients who ever present to an ENT will maybe find some benefit of their poor surgeries.

The nose is a fine organ system. Ask yourself...would you let someone cut into your liver, kidney or heart? The only reason these surgeries can be presented as “minimally invasive, is because your nose is already open to the environment. That is it. ALL surgery is invasive and is a trauma to the body. Never let an ENT downplay this.

90% of the reason you are having breathing issues does not have to do with your anatomy. Do not be fooled into thinking so.

Get to the root cause. This does not involve a scalpel or cutting out of parts.

Elizabeth-I am glad you encountered an honest assistant.