Nausea and "Roid Rage"

On Friday I went to the Ear, Nose and Throat specialist. I got to see my CT scan and yep, the doc was right...completely full. Well, two of them at least. The frontal ones (where my headaches were centered) were completely full. In the scan, the sinuses are supposed to be black...in mine the frontal ones were gray with a speck of black. The ones in between my eyes going down the side of my nose (where all the arrows are pointing toward in the picture in the previous post) are also full, thus blocking the drainage. The bottom ones below my eye kinda surprised the ENT. They showed infection lining the perimeter, but not filled. She said that is usually indicative of chronic sinus infections, whereas I'm pretty sure this is the first one I've had. Maybe I've had them before but haven't known it? Who knows. The fourth one is back kinda by my temples, and that was pretty clear.

So the plan of action...an aggressive antibiotic and steroid. Thus the subject of the post. Luckily the ENT warned me that I might have nausea so to take them with food and also that I might be very irritable and moody. So yesterday about 20 minutes after taking them for the first time I experienced both. If I lash out at you, I blame it on the steroids!

Once I am finished with those, the plan is to get another CT scan to make sure everything is cleared out. If it isn't, she recommends surgery to scrape them out and drill through the openings to help things drain better in the future. I'm praying the antibiotics do the trick!