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Huh. That sounds...very promising. Definitely have post-nasal drip and headaches. I'll get an ENT appointment and report back.
Chronic sinusitis is just a descriptive diagnosis. Most doctors will not look much further, perhaps give a medicine that treats the symptoms (but completely ignores the cause, just like your allergy spray. Look up how it functions in the body and tell me that's a good solution unless as a last resort).
It's very likely you can solve the problem with basic systematic problem-solving. Try to figure out when it's worse / better. Is it impacted by what you eat? Do you feel better outside? Inside? Away from the city? After a nasal rinse? Other allergy symptoms? Are other parts of the body inflamed? GERD? Dairy?
Symptoms are just that, symptoms. They tend denote that there is an underlying problem in your body. Right now your sinuses are launching an inflammatory response (a localized fever, in an attempt to deal with something it considers a problem). It could be that the air you are breathing is bad for you (hepa filters are cheap). It could be that your immune system has gotten confused (if so why? why is it not working properly? that seems dangerous? is it getting all the nutrients it needs to function properly?). It could be that there is another problem in the body that has gone unnoticed.
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