(music) Kristen is going to take a look in my nose and then she's going to go ahead and
spray a numbing medicine in my nose that helps to kind of open things up and to actually
numb up the surfaces.
Now we're going to go ahead and sneak the cotton balls in.
These have a numbing medication on it and also a little bit of that decongestive medication
so that's going to help to get the surfaces further prepared on the inside of the nose.
You know there's a weirdness factor with something going in your nose but it's actually not a
bid deal at all.
And so now we're going to wait.
So it's been about twenty minutes so now I've just had these guys sitting in my nose and
now we're going to go ahead and get started so Dr. Rossiter is going to man the ship here.
Sensation wise no a whole lot.
Not much of anything going on.
That's good.
So a little clickiness with the beat of the camera and the numbing injection.
But pretty low key generally speaking.
So now we're going towards the cheek sinus on my left hand side.
So we're just trying to get this natural sinus opening expanded.
A little bit of pressure here.
Not bad.
And a little bit more I can feel it kind of in my upper teeth a little bit but not too
big of a deal.
We're going to switch gears over more towards the breathing passage ways.
Trying to reduce the turbinates so in order to do that first thing that we do is make
sure things are nicely numb still.
And I'm not feeling any of that which is a good sign.
A little smoke a little pressure.
So you can smell smoke.
Which is not really smoke but it smells smoky.
There's not a whole lot of action going on there.
All done on that side so sneak the cotton balls back in making sure that we're getting
the numbing medicine back on the surfaces.
So we are all done so I've actually been done for about five minutes or so.
So now sitting up I'm just going to sit around here.
These cotton balls are sitting in my nose just holding a little bit of pressure.
Got a little bit of numbing medicine and a little bit of that decongestive medicine to
kind of help the surfaces settle down from procedure.
Honestly right now I feel other than having something in my nose I feel absolutely fine
like nothing just happened which is a good thing.
The actual doing it wasn't honestly a big deal at all.
Actually and I've done plenty of these performed plenty of these but it was actually less intense
than you know even what I figured it was going to be.
So really even from a pressure standpoint not bad.
A little pins and needles in the sinus areas the working the inside of the nose I didn't
feel any of that.
The numbing injections I din't really feel any of that either.
So yeah pretty darn good so what'll happen from here is we'll have these guys sit in
my nose for another ten fifteen minutes sneak them out take a look and just make sure everything'
behaving itself and then beyond that what I'll do on the back end is just keeping my
nose moist so a lot of saline spray saline gel I'll be rinsing as much as I can just
trying to keep things moving along and the other thing I'll do is using antibiotic ointment
on the inside of the nose same thin all that stuff is just trying to kind of keep the lining
moist and keep things moving out of there.
I'll see somebody here in the office in about a week or so just to suction out build up
that might collect so when the nose gets swollen or stuffy I guess I should say on the back
end of a procedure the mucus doesn't move along like it's supposed to so sometimes we
just need to suction out any mucus that's wanting to kind of hang out in the nose and
then typically after about a week that's when things start moving forward so first week's
the stuffy phase once I get through that then we should sort of gradually move it forward
and so what I'd expect to see is over the next month or so most of the changes happening
from a breathing standpoint the sinus areas you know we'll see how that plays it usually
kind of trails that a little bit so over the next maybe month or two after the first month
we'll see what I notice up there and again and I mean just to kind of recap what I was
feeling like coming into all of this I had undergone previous sinus surgery about five
years ago last year or two just a little stuffy more on the left side than the right more
at night than during the day.
So more just kind of laying down sort of situation and so I wasn't having dramatic negative impact
but I could tell it was a deterioration from where I had been a few years after my original
surgery so the goal today is just to try to keep me up and running and try to optimize
the situation.
So we'll see what that looks like.
So I'm expecting sort of more subtle changes moving forward.
And otherwise I'm planning on back to work tomorrow and doing my normal thing and plan
on working out tomorrow morning and I'm not going to hopefully miss a beat.