why i haven't been posting recently. In 2006 i was working as an investment banking analyst at Petsky
Prunier and i got a really bad cold when i did a google search the symptoms that i was displaying
were very similar to the whooping cough where i had a persistent cough and it was like a low
hum and i had a very high fever it was really bad in fact my managing director Sanjay Chadda wanted
me to go home but then at the same time he would give me work so i felt that it was best to stay
in the office despite the fact that i was really sick. The problem was that it took me about two
to two and a half weeks to get better but then after that time i had persistent post nasal drip
so i remember one time when i was at a nightclub called lotus and i had to take the napkins and
then shove them up against my nose because there was always like a clear liquid that was coming out
additionally i used to sing a lot in high school and also in Cornell i used to sing but after
having this illness it completely destroyed my vocal cords because of the constant coughing and
the inflammation in fact to this day my voice has still not recovered the biggest issue that i had
after catching this cold or the whooping cough or whatever it was was it started to negatively
impact my sleep and i felt that there was more pressure in this side of my face so i got a cat
scan it showed that my left inferior turbinate was inflamed now most people have three turbinates the
inferior turbinate is the bottom one and that's the largest one with the most surface area
then you have a middle turbinate and then your remaining turbinate is actually the smallest
so most people when they have problems breathing it's due to swelling in the inferior turbinate
whether it's caused by allergies or whether it's caused by something else well i ended up getting
two inferior turbinate reductions the first was done via radio frequency and then the second was
done using heat something called cauterization and then this definitely helped my sleep the last
time i got this done was in 2014. it was a very quick procedure it was in and out done through
local anesthesia and that basically improved my sleep for the next five years unfortunately
starting around 2019 i started experiencing some sleep issues but it wasn't that dramatic where i
would do an occasional neti pod where i would use one of those neilmed sinus drain where you apply
pressure to a bottle and you add some salt and baking soda and then it decreases the inflammation
however i caught covid in february 2022 and even though i was fine after three days
the issue was that my turbinates still did not shrink back to where they were before
so since i caught covet in february i've been struggling to sleep and oftentimes what happens
is i'll feel a lot of pressure in this side of my face and oftentimes i'll wake up at like three
o'clock in the morning and i won't be able to fall back asleep because this entire side of my face is
clogged so basically i've been struggling over the past few months to sleep and when you only sleep
like four to five hours a night it's really really difficult because i'm lacking energy
it's more difficult for me to think clearly and i really need to get this thing straightened out
so unfortunately that's actually the primary reason why i haven't been posting that often
basically because i'm experiencing some brain fog and my mind is not as clear as it was previously
and also i just simply lack the energy i'm more tired than i used to be and i'm spending a lot of
time with my students and during usual times when i'm sleeping well when i would have the
energy to record videos i now find myself going to sleep earlier yet my overall sleep quality is not
nearly as good as it used to be so i'm scheduled for an MRI this upcoming week so hopefully it
will show that i have some inferior turbinate inflammation and then the doctor will go in and
either do a balloon sinuplasty to open up that area and perhaps he'll even combine it with a
reduction of the inferior turbinate now i am definitely a little bit concerned about getting
something called atrophic rhinitis which means that the mucosa in your inferior turbinate if
it gets damaged then it stops moisturizing the air as it comes into your nostril and then frequently
what happens is that you get a lot of dry nose and things of that nature i never experienced
any of those symptoms during my two previous inferior turbinate reductions but i definitely
want to reduce the likelihood of that happening so over the past two months i've actually been using
a lot of nasal sprays i've been using this one this exclaim with xylitol i've been using this one
which is also really good and i've also made a few nasal sprays here's a peptide which is tb 500
which reduces inflammation and i use this already but i have some colloidal silver in here and this
actually helps tremendously it has reduced the inflammation but that's basically what's been
going on i've been having a lot of sleeping issues i've been having brain fog other than that i feel
fine but if you really want to torture someone then interrupt their sleep because without high
quality sleep then things become really really difficult i definitely find that my mood is not
nearly as good as it used to be i'm more agitated it's harder for me to think clearly and to
remember things am i really confident that this is going to get resolved within the next month or two
yeah i am because i had the same thing happen to me about eight years ago when i got it resolved
but there is no guarantee so hopefully everything is going to snap back to normal
and that's basically why i have not been posting nearly as much because i haven't had the energy
in order to create new content so leave a comment below let me know your thoughts let
me know if you've ever struggled with this and i encourage you to watch another video right here
because youtube believes that that would be a video that you would greatly enjoy