 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Water (and Mucinex) thin out lymphatic fluid and keep things flowing. This will prevent more sinus infections than anything. As we breathe in through our nose, it heats or cools the air and traps the bacteria. Even with burned up sections from rads, there is tremendous redundancy but that's why we all get lymphedema. The fluid can't get out as fast. Then the thicker saliva is prone to cause infections, if it gets backed up, although I seem to get around that.
I shouldn't jinx myself but I haven't had a cold since around 90 something. I used to get sinus infections almost weekly for decades, too. I found an ENT that sat me down, gave me a couple pieces of paper and explained it all. That was in March 1995. I have had maybe 3 sinus infections since 1999. Dryness is your worst enemy.
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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