How I Overcame Chronic Sinus Infections.

(An unusual topic for this place but a very important message)!

O.k. first off an obvious disclaimer, what I am passing along is simply for information anyone attempting to do what I did is on their own, I take no responsibility whatsoever in any way or form for what may happen to anyone. Anyone attempting to do what I did does so at THEIR OWN RISK!!!

I pass along this information actually in the hopes that someone investigate what happened for the purpose of developing an actual approved treatment, something I do not the financial resources or desire to pursue. While what I did was free in order for the public at large to benefit from it there should be appropriate research into the phenomenon.

Now the background. I suffered from sinus infections for decades, from the time I was a child I would get them regularly, usually a couple times a year. If i got a cold i got a sinus infection. During those decades I tried every sort of treatment imaginable. Mega doses of vitamin C, saline nasal irrigation, over the counter medications, etc. etc. etc. While many of these things would mitigate the symptoms somewhat I usually wound up having to go and get antibiotics to get rid of the infection.

When I had these infections the pain in my face would be severe, like having a nail driven into my face. It was often the best I could do to lie in a dark room. The nasal discharges I had were nothing short of scary, dark yellow and green, streaked with blood, at times black blobs of old coagulated blood. Anyone who has gone through this knows what I am talking about. As I say this went on for decades, I was a chronic sinus infection sufferer.

That was the past. It has now been 5 years since I have gone through that, and what I did to stop it was incredibly simple.

I had read a book about our inner biomes. One of the stories in this book detailed the story of a man who had a chronic ear infection in one ear, his problems went on for years no matter what doctors did, then one day he took some of the earwax from his good ear and put it in his problem ear, and the chronic ear infections went away. Quite obviously he had something, some bacteria probably, living in his good ear that he did not have in his problem ear which protected the good ear from infection.

I was also aware of the medical procedure of fecal transplants, where people who have had high doses of antibiotics develop intestinal problems which can be treated by introducing feces from a family member, restoring the intestinal biome to its healthy state.

I had also read about how the biome of people who have sinus problems differs from those who do not.

Thinking of these things I tried an experiment. My wife never gets anything when she gets a cold, no bronchitis, no strep throat, no sinus infections, so I figured her nasal biome must be pretty robust. One day when she was taking a hot shower, and her nose had gotten a little runny due to the steamy air I gave her a q-tip and asked her to swab the inside of her nose, I then took that q-tip and put it into my nose. Note I DID NOT PUSH THE Q-TIP UP INTO MY NOSE, I put it up merely till it was a little uncomfortable, maybe a quarter of an inch, and touched the side of my nasal passage. I wanted to get the discharge from my wife’s nose up past where my nasal passage was really dry, that was all. I did not rub the q-tip around I just gently touched the side of my nasal passage. So the introduction of her nasal mucous was very small in scope.

I did this when I was healthy. I did not want the new bacteria to have to battle with an infection right away. I also didn’t want any lingering antibiotics in my system which would kill the new introduction.

That was it, since then I have not had a serious sinus infection. I have had a couple low grade ones, which went away on their own after a couple days, but that was it. A person who had the most outrageous sinus infections out there for at least 40 years has been relatively completely free of them for 5 years. I consider it a near miracle.

It seems like if the beneficial agent could be isolated a nasal spray or something could be made which would inoculate people from getting sinus infections. While it may be that since the beneficial agent is probably free and widespread it may not seem like there is much of a profit potential there, on the other hand it involves essentially taking on another persons snot, which many people are adverse to doing. There is of course always the possibility that a person may have other issues which cause the infections. There is also the fact that sinus infections are the biggest source of antibiotic prescriptions in the U.S. so there may be significant push back by drug companies against such treatments. But from my perspective this is something that must be looked into.