Similar symptoms?
Question:
Hi I wonder if anyone else gets the following symptoms. I have recurrent polyps and sinusitis, and also suffer with TMJ/Bruxism problems. 1) Routinely I have NO sense of smell 2) A couple of days before I get a cold or ‘flu my sense of smell returns for a day or so. 3) In the next couple of days my dental fillings (amalgam) become sensitive, and my jaw aches. 4)The next stage is usually complete blockage and very poor drainage, and then of course the dreaded sinusitis My worry is that my doctor is treating me for sinusitis, and my dentist tells me my jaw is sensitive because of my TMJ. Is there a way of telling which is the ‘dominant’ condition??? I can’t help thinking that one is affecting the other. Any ideas? Thanks Andy
Response:
On 24 Nov 2004 12:14:25 -0800, andyandbe…@fatmo.fsnet.co.uk (Andy Berry) wrote: >Hi >I wonder if anyone else gets the following symptoms. I have recurrent >polyps and sinusitis, and also suffer with TMJ/Bruxism problems. >1) Routinely I have NO sense of smell >2) A couple of days before I get a cold or ‘flu my sense of smell >returns for a day or so.
Just before I get a cold, all of my sinus swelling goes away and my sinuses are totally open. The reason., I think, is that the antibodies that normally are busy over-reacting to allergens get preoccupied gighting the cold virus. >3) In the next couple of days my dental fillings (amalgam) become >sensitive, and my jaw aches.
as the acute sinusitis spreads into your maxillary (cheek) sinuses. >4)The next stage is usually complete blockage and very poor drainage, >and then of course the dreaded sinusitis >My worry is that my doctor is treating me for sinusitis, and my >dentist tells me my jaw is sensitive because of my TMJ. Is there a >way of telling which is the ‘dominant’ condition??? I can’t help >thinking that one is affecting the other. Any ideas?
Sounds like sinusitis to me….;.
