Just got back from my follow up and unfortunately, still don't really know anything! Argh! But it went good overall. She removed the packing, so good riddance to that stuff in my head! A huge relief is that the biopsy came back normal, which is good in that I don't have that one disease they were checking for, but bad in that it tells us nothing. So we still have no idea what's wrong or how to fix it. So now we're back to waiting and seeing. My nose is pretty clear now and not as inflamed from all the medicine I'm on right now, so I have to finish out this current round of medication and then start using a new nasal steroid spray. They think it wasn't working before because it was so clogged, it couldn't get through. I have to wean off the oral steroids and get at least two weeks of the nasal steroid into my system to see if that helps. If it gets bad again, then we'll do the sinus surgery as originally planned, but put me back on the oral steroids beforehand so it's not blocked this time. I go back to the surgeon in three weeks again to see how the steroid nasal spray is helping. And then after that appointment, I have to stop using the steroid nasal spray for one week as it needs to be out of my system before they run some specific allergy tests at another appointment in four weeks.
So new medicine for three weeks, back to surgeon for check-up, wait one week off the medicine, then go back again for more allergy tests. Then we'll see what happens next. She still suspects if we can get my nasal inflammation under control by pinpointing the trigger, then I shouldn't need the sinus surgery anymore, so she wants to keep testing that before jumping back into another surgery since from what she saw, the problem is more in my nose, not the sinuses after all. So we'll see.

I also got a scan, and my neck got dislocated from being moved around in the surgery. She said the muscles aches and spasms are common in younger people put under general anesthesia since we have better muscle tone. I thought that was funny since I'm a big flab, but she said I actually have pretty good muscle tone and the muscle relaxant they give you before the intubation and then the process of being put under general anesthesia and then being intubated can all cause a shock to the muscles and cause the kind of reaction I'm having. It will wear off usually within a week. She thinks the weakness and dizziness and weird throbbing veins in my wrists is all from the prednisone. I have to take that for five more days and then switch over to the nasal steroid, so that should get better soon too hopefully. And then she said they dislocated my neck during intubation, so I'm being referred to the chiropractor tomorrow at 10am to get fixed for that. So that should help with the pain in my neck, shoulders, and wrists. UGH. So I guess it's an ongoing process for now.

The good news is that my biopsy is normal and that for today at least, I can breathe. I'm thankful for that much at least! Thank you all again SO much!!!!