Postnasal Drip Two Years Post-Op
I am writing this nearly two years removed from the Botox treatment. I can burp like a normal person and it is seriously life-changing.
I want to know if anyone thinks the following symptom is tied to this surgery, and if so, what to do about it. If not, why?
July 2024, got the surgery. October 2024, got a common cold. Couldn't kick it, z-pack didn't work, but a 10-day antibiotic, prednisone worked. January 2025, common cold again. Didn't go to Dr, didn't kick the congestion. I figured it wasn't possible to get another sinus infection so soon. I was very wrong -- because I was in Georgia and am from NJ, I attributed it to allergies. Was told I maybe had them, maybe had asthma, and then eventually that no, the whole time it was a sinus infection that turned into walking pneumonia by early March.
Cleared that through two weeks of antibiotics and steroids. Congestion remained. I had multiple sinus infections after this, nose was always irritated. Certainly my fault for not going to the Dr back in January, but also was misdiagnosed when I did go.
Through May, I went to an allergist and two ENTs, who recommended deviated septum surgery. I was told it was only slightly deviated, but because of how enflamed my mucosa/nasal passages/sinuses were, it was necessary to breathe and allow drainage. They couldn't even fit the camera because of how inflamed it had gotten.
I eventually got the surgery 10/1/2025, had infections after, got my immunology results as in perfect health and allergy results coming back negative, cleared up by January 2026 and felt amazing. Could breathe very well, sometimes had postnasal drip but never anything too bad. Sinus rinses went from daily to rare.
The first cold I got again was end of April. I kicked the cold but congestion lingered. From then until today, it has lingered, and has varied between nasal congestion, sinus infection, and sore throats due to postnasal drip.
My deviated septum surgery had a great result, nasal passages wide open and can breathe, but the one symptom I've had since the onset is my ears clicking, when blowing nose it feels like a balloon is blowing up but not popping, and can feel mucus in the back of my throat more often than not.
The connection to R-CPD for me is that I have had a harder time swallowing, takes more effort to spit out mucus, and the one consistent symptom has been back of throat/eustachian tube area dysfunction. I think I have a heightened sense of that whole area now that it works better from the surgery, but I was curious if anyone has had a similar experience, since I never had issues like this until after the surgery.
Happy to go into more detail on any of this. I want to reiterate how incredible the surgery has been for what it was meant to do, and that there may be no connection whatsoever, so anyone considering it should not be discouraged. Thanks for following along.