I should explain that I have, I believe, been having some sinus problems for at least 8 months (if not more). Â I’ve been going to allergists to try to find out what this post nasal drip fountain is, and I’m not allergic to anything, so I was a wee bit baffled. Â Result: pseudoephedrine to address post nasal drip.
I figured out it was my sinuses (having never had a sinus infection before that I remember) when my dentist said that my symptoms (bad breath, nerve pain in top teeth when I walked) sounded more like my sinuses.  That was on June 24, 2010.  I bombarded my body with more pseudoephedrine and my new best friend Mucinex and a megaton of water every day.  The teeth stopped hurting.  I thought I had bad breath and learned how to talk to people while inhaling whenever I had to get close to them.  I thought maybe it was coffee breath.  I don’t know.  I’m not that smart.  But I did notice that even minutes after brushing my teeth it would taste bad and really thought it was the bite guard.  Even though I efferdent it EVERY DAY and it didn’t smell bad after it was cleaned, I just figured this was something I was going to have to live with until I got my teeth to touch again someday.
The headaches (on the left side of my head only) began on June 3 (I can’t actually say if I ever had one like it before, I just know it was definitely there that day), 2010 after going to what I thought was going to be a massage and what turned out to be acupuncture, then a massage. Â I thought a troll or an alien was trying to escape through the top left side of my head.
I went to the massage/acupuncture appointment because some dude had rear ended me while I was parked in a parking lot on May 13, 2010. Â I figured the SEVERE and debilitating headache was my body “adjusting” to acupuncture (having never experienced acupuncture before). Â Every time I went to acupuncture after that I got that SEVERE headache on the left side. Â Incidentally, the massage guy massaged my sacrum into serious misalignment and I couldn’t sit without pain for weeks, so I looked up a local chiropractor (also not something I usually subscribe to, but I figured, someone popped my back out, someone else can pop it back in).
On July 9, 2010 I started seeing a chiropractor and it of course resulted in my seeing her 3 times a week for 3 weeks, then twice a week for 5 weeks, then blah blah blah etc. etc….it took months for me to be able to sit without pain. Â Even now, traffic throws me into some serious discomfort. Â NOTE: Â Most every time she did some serious adjusting I got THE HEADACHE. Which of course was explained to me as my body adjusting to the adjustments. Â This is the angry gnome trying to escape via the top left of my skull. (Yes, it is now a gnome)
Fast forward to Thanksgiving.  I was in Hawaii…and realised that my breath was so bad I was going to have to become a hermit and be single because it was really really really horrible.  Then my teeth started to hurt.  And my face was killing  me (yes I know, it’s killing you too).  DING!  Light went on.
iPad came out, symptoms entered (remember the mucinex and pseudoephedrine I’d been downing to address post nasal drip), SINUS INFECTION. Â Contacted awesome doctor who I knew had one of his diplomas in Otolaryngology = antibiotics because it was that easy to diagnose. Â Bad breath resolved after 1 course of antibiotics. Â Awesome. Â But nothing else changed. Â Still post nasal drip, still headaches, face still hurt. Â Of course I talked to Dr. Li and he referred me to a SINUS SPECIALIST. Â wooooo. Â I was so excited, even though it took about 2 months to get in.
So on January 20, 2010 I got to see the Sinus Doctor and I thought all my problems would go away.
See next post for the novel I just wrote to Dr. Li who should charge me if he answers it.