QvAR & aspirin sense of smell

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Hi All- Re sense of smell. I'd lost mine, even with 10 mg of prednisone, daily plus ongoing infection. I also got a CT Scan from my allergist saying "Yep, just as I thought, you need surgery! I have a "no more surgery" mantra so I shook things up with some simple changes. I switched from irritating as hell aqueous Nasarel to QVar (a lung inhaler neigh sinus inhaler) and changed my aspirin dose. The inhaler can be adapted to sinus use (per my old allergist) by placing a standard baby bottle nipple with nipple cut off top over the inhaler opening.. The fine mist gets well into the sinuses and doesn't irritate like alot of the other products. Make sure you keep the nipple clean with an alcohol pad or whatever. On aspirin, Carol advised me not to go too low on the dose or it would lose its efficacy. I tried to lower it to 325 daily because anymore a day without

Prilosec is a day spent in bed with miserable nausea-sometimes vomiting. But I did increase the ASA to 325 twice daily with food. Also I've noted that just missing one nightime sinus rinse seems to put me immediately in to bacteria junkie land--so I never skip. I can smell now, infection rate is in half; my prednisone dose is cut in half and going down. My ENT says things look relatively terrific. Hah! Liz Ken West <kenwest@...> wrote:shook things up a bit. I switched from nasarel to Qvar ( a lung inhaler) which my old allergist had adopted to sinuses with a baby bottle nipple (buy standard nipple-cut top portion Yes, the combination of irrigation and a

good nasal spray I think is goingto be effective, to some degree or other.My sense of smell has gone south again, but I think that is because I flushand spray less regularly than heretofore,so, the moral of the story is:Keep It Up!(and, I am happy for you -- it's always great when it comes back, partlybecause of the joy of smelling, and partly to be reassured that the sense ofsmell has not been permanently destroyed by this thing.).-- Ken West Check the library . . . samters/links> From: "sweatherston" <sweatherston@...>> Reply-samters > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:01:14 -0000> samters > Subject: sense of smell just came back!> > I am so excited and

wanted to share this with people I know will> understand - persuaded my GP to switch me from Nasonex to Rhinocort> Aqua about a week ago after stuff I read on here and have been> irrigating religiously twice a day for some weeks now - about 30 mins> ago, I felt a "pop" in my sinuses and realised that I can smell again!> Have just spent the last half an hour running round the house sticking> my nose into coffee jar and shower gels!! Hope it lasts......only> people who have lost their sense of smell can appreciate the joy of it> returning. Off to do some more sniffing now!> > > > > > > >