The first year I was sick, I had sinus surgery to straighten the deviated septum him so they could get the instruments in to open up the passageway into the infected sphenoid. It was a long and awful surgery and it took quite a while to recover, but it did help. I had a kind of a continuous runny nose on that side, so there was a second sinus surgery two years later which helps with that a lot of the openings between the sinus passages just weren’t draining very well. The sinus rinses with budesonide really help keep that under control now. I do that twice a day as well as nebulizing and pulmonary vest 2 times daily. It would be a big deal if I could get all this management bronchiectasis down to once a day instead of twice, but it just doesn’t seem like I’m able to do that. I think I’ve gotten away with that twice in eight years. I’m really trying to not let this thing control my life, but…..

The sinus problems seem also to be a management situation. However I don’t have any problematic allergies and before the original infection in 2013 I never had lung congestion issues. But it just seems to be that the mucus that lungs and also sinuses produce is really tenacious stuff. Takes a lot of acrobatic coughing to clear it from lungs.