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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…..

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I want to know about the budesonide rinse. I have chronic post nasal drainage. Docs have prescribed 3 different prescription nasal sprays and all make breathing more difficult although they help dry up some of the drainage. ENT suggested that I just stick to nasal rinses. I think I could do nasal rinses every other hour and continue to get thick clear stringy mucus. I would like to find somthing that would help the sinus and I believe that would decrease some of the muuc in the lungs.

I can't get cleared for a septoplasty because of my bronchiectasis. It would probably help prevent my respiratory infections. Was it worth it?