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I have had a CT of the sinuses and have soft tissue opacifying the right ostiomeatal infundibulum, thickening of the inferior right maxillary, soft tissue partially opacifying the right middle meatus, also of the right anterior ethmoid, right concha bullosa and nasal deviation toe the left. Please tell me what this means. I think I have to have surgery and have always had bad migraines on my right side would this hav anythign to do with that> Thank you

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• Re: sinus (Archive in Sinusitis.) Walt Stoll 11:34:09 9/18/00 (0)

In Reply to: sinus posted by Kelly on September 16, 2000 at 12:19:47:

Hi, Kelly.

First of all, it is the responsibility of the doc who ordered the MRI to explain this to you. Docs are not just supposed to take the money and run! After all, the word doctor means teacher. The problem is that since insurance will not pay for teaching, docs tend to not care if patients understand what is going on unless they insist. It is time for you to insist.

Next, this tells me that you have severe allergies causing most of your sinus problems and that surgery is not going to do anything about that. Also, changes like this are frequently aggravated by TMJ and masseter muscle bracing. The surgery will not do anything for that cause either.

You might even get temporary benefits from the surgery but you are just putting tape over the lights on your dashboard when you do that.

Walt