Michael Smith
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Don't be eating your lunch while reading this post.
I've long had allergy issues and my sinus problems were complicated by a fight with a biker when I was 15. It was kind of a one way fight in which the bones of that part of my nose were broken by a sucker punch when i was looking the other way. Had surgery @ 30 to fix this. Many years ago my MD told me to rinse with a saline solution a couple times a day to help sinus function and with allergy. I started a couple weeks ago with a regular cycle. After about a week my voice lowered 2 octaves, instead of sounding like Pee Wee Herman when I speek I sound like Huel Brenner. But what came out in the rinse is why I'm posting this. A wad of very fine little hairs and jet black debris all stuck together was the first unnerving thing to be washed from my sinuses. This was not snot or blood but could only be described as the wad of stuff you would pull out of the p trap of your vanity sink if it were clogged but much smaller. It was jet black and had obviously been in there for a long while. It had the feel and color of ebony dust that had been left in water for weeks or months. Several days later I washed out a bunch more of this black debris. This time without the little hairs. I've done sinus rinses of and on for many years this was not the normal little bit of dust mixed with snot, this was I think pure dust that had gotten trapped and concentrated for weeks, months or years. Very weird and very unnerving. I do have a good dust system but I'm thinking that some dust is getting by my cyclone filter or that i'm not being careful enough while hand sanding. I'm thinking of getting one of those powered dust face shields (anybody have one of these? and venting my dust cyclone outside instead of having the filter in the shop. I guess I should take a trip to my ENT as well. I was sick about a week before any of this, that may have had something to do with it.
I've long had allergy issues and my sinus problems were complicated by a fight with a biker when I was 15. It was kind of a one way fight in which the bones of that part of my nose were broken by a sucker punch when i was looking the other way. Had surgery @ 30 to fix this. Many years ago my MD told me to rinse with a saline solution a couple times a day to help sinus function and with allergy. I started a couple weeks ago with a regular cycle. After about a week my voice lowered 2 octaves, instead of sounding like Pee Wee Herman when I speek I sound like Huel Brenner. But what came out in the rinse is why I'm posting this. A wad of very fine little hairs and jet black debris all stuck together was the first unnerving thing to be washed from my sinuses. This was not snot or blood but could only be described as the wad of stuff you would pull out of the p trap of your vanity sink if it were clogged but much smaller. It was jet black and had obviously been in there for a long while. It had the feel and color of ebony dust that had been left in water for weeks or months. Several days later I washed out a bunch more of this black debris. This time without the little hairs. I've done sinus rinses of and on for many years this was not the normal little bit of dust mixed with snot, this was I think pure dust that had gotten trapped and concentrated for weeks, months or years. Very weird and very unnerving. I do have a good dust system but I'm thinking that some dust is getting by my cyclone filter or that i'm not being careful enough while hand sanding. I'm thinking of getting one of those powered dust face shields (anybody have one of these? and venting my dust cyclone outside instead of having the filter in the shop. I guess I should take a trip to my ENT as well. I was sick about a week before any of this, that may have had something to do with it.
