Why Does My Sinus Infection Keep Coming Back Every Winter?
Everybody knows the normal version. You get sick, your nose runs, you feel gross for a week or ten days, then it’s over. This isn’t that. I’m talking about the person who’s been stuffed up since September and it’s now almost December, who’s tried every spray at the pharmacy and still wakes up with a face that feels like a wet sandbag. When it goes past twelve weeks, doctors call it chronic sinusitis , and the way it works is kind of sneaky. The lining inside your sinuses stays swollen. Not always infected, just swollen and angry. That swelling closes off the little drainage holes, mucus sits there with nowhere to go, and then it gets thick, and then it gets worse. Loop. At Premier Sinus we see people who’ve lived like this for years, and the line we hear most is “I thought it was just allergies.” Maybe it started that way. But a nose that’s blocked most days is not your baseline, even if you’ve gotten used to it. Plenty of folks have. They just adapt and stop noticing how bad they feel...