#8578 10-18-2006 04:22 PM | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 248 Gold Member (200+ posts) | OP  Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 248 | Wondering if anyone has suffered from sinusitus.I finished my radiation almost 7 yrs ago. I never had sinusitus before in my life and it started 2 yrs post radiation and has been relentless ever since. For 5 yrs i take anti- biotics it goes away and within a month it comes right back. Thanks for any advice or suggestions.
Mark D. Stage 3 Nasopharynx dx10/99 T2N3M0 40xrad 2x Cisplatin 5FU. acute leuk 1998.
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#8579 10-18-2006 05:30 PM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 67 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 67 | It is a known by product of head and neck radiation, and I have it too 8 years out. It is not an infection and antibiotics will not make it go away, it is chronic inflamation.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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#8580 10-19-2006 01:31 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 837 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 837 | I've been seeing a pulmonary/sinus specialist about my sinus problems (they're NOT allergy-related), and he's had me using Nasonex spray for awhile. At least for me, it seems to have helped a bit.
Cathy
Tongue SCC (T2M0N0), poorly differentiated, diagnosed 3/89, partial glossectomy and neck dissection 4/89, radiation from early June to late August 1989
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#8581 10-19-2006 09:56 AM | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 90 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 90 | If you had chronic sinusitus prior to being diagnosed with cancer and prior to treatment does that mean that after treatment it may be worse, the same? I thought maybe after the several months of recovery chronic sinusitus might be better. My father has suffered with it for years and I had hoped maybe possibly the one benefit of all this might be a reduction in sinusitus.
Based upon your statement Brian I guess I was incorrect in my thinking - can you expand on why this is a side effect of treatment?
Thanks
Kim
Caregiver to Father:Stage III unknown primary; modified left side neck dissection 2/2006; 8 wk trmts of Erbitux 3/2006 with-37 radition treatments; 11.2010; biopsy of base of tongue results questionable. 9.2013 tumor on left side of tongue; squamous cell cancer. 10.2.2013 Hemiglossectomy(1/2 tongue removed) with reconstruct tongue using left thigh tissue;surgery included IORT.
25 additional IMRT radiation trtmts & 5 wks/chemo. Carbo & Taxol combo.NPO;100% PEG depend;aspiration pneumonia 3/2014
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#8582 10-19-2006 12:35 PM | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 248 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | OP Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 248 | Brian, I hope the awnser that you have given me is correct, because my biggest fear is a recurrence. Everywhere I look the symptoms for Nasopharynx is chromic sinusitus that will not go away with antibiotics. I guess to ease my mind I need to know; If it is a by product of radiation and is inflamation than why did it take 2 years after treatment to develop and why is the disharge yellowish/green that seems to dissapear with antibiotics only to reappear after antibiotics. Thank you for your suggestion Cathy regarding nasal sprays but I've tried them all and they don't seem to help. Thanks for your responses Brian, Cathy and Kim.
Mark D. Stage 3 Nasopharynx dx10/99 T2N3M0 40xrad 2x Cisplatin 5FU. acute leuk 1998.
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