@willows
I’m glad you have found this helpful.
I don’t discount that what you experience can feel irritating and cause frustration.

I will never discourage anyone from seeing a provider. But before you do, you have to well equipt with many many questions that you would never think to ask, which are extremely important.

As with any body part, throughout life, it changes as we change. The nose is a VERY powerful organ. People forget that it is an entire organ system connected to your respiratory and pulmonary system. It’s always best to work with your natural physiology than to change, alter, remove body parts of an organ.

Rather than see an ENT, I would recommend working with someone who can help address congestion in your nose and why it happens while you are talking.
This can be for multiple reasons, increase in blood pressure, heart rate etc…
Congestion is not a bad thing, it is an autonomic response. Some people feel it more than others is all. Typically congestion that happens with eating or talking is vasomotor rhinitis. Overly sensitive nerves in this area. People with vasomotor rhinitis also tend to have sensitive ears. Sensitivity is nothing to get surgery for. There are many ways to work with this NON medical doctor related.

There is also a New York Times best seller book out called;
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

It explains a lot about this important function and what all goes into its entirety.

At any time you feel frustrated and as you state by this minor problem, choose the opposite approach and recognize how much this area works for you non stop without issues.