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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Preface to my online book about Sinusitis

















"Many people will declare you 
chronically sick if you are suffering 
from sinusitis for more than three months 
or if you have four or more episodes per year.

In my opinion, this declaration is just a sign of 

capitulation of modern day mainstream medicine."


If you are suffering from sinusitis right now, I know you are probably feeling very exhausted. I understand that you will want to improve the situation as quickly as possible. This is what this online book will help you do. I am neither a physician, nor a scientist or therapist, but I have learned a lot about an illness that has cost me a lot of time, energy and patience. Today, I know how to avoid it from coming back most of the time.

If you have sinusitis occasionally or regularly, you are not alone: it is one of the most prevalent illnesses in today’s “civilized” world. It is occurring at an increasing rate. A rate which is, to me, more than alerting.

Health care experts estimate that 37 million Americans are affected by sinusitis every year. It is a fact that health care workers report 33 million cases of chronic sinusitis to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention annually. If you boil the statistics down to the basics, you’ll always arrive at the same ratio: one in seven people suffers from sinusitis at least once a year. This is true for the US and, for example, the country where I live, Germany.


I have long suffered from sinusitis - in a severe way. I went through hell. It didn’t matter if or if not I had taken the highest possible doses of the strongest NSAR painkillers available. I endured so much pain that I cried sometimes.

Computer tomography proved it: I happen to have – as so many other people – a deviated septum. It almost touches the left side of the inside of my nasal cavity.

Mouth and throat specialists in hospitals sent mixed messages of how severe my situation was. Some suggested surgery. “You will not get away with this. Do the surgery, there is no workaround!” Some said I would be able to live with it. “If I see your CT image, I say, you will easily be able live with that.” The ones who suggested a surgery where the physicians who spent a considerable share of their time in the operating theater. They earned a considerable share of their income with this activity. The other group, disadvising from the operation, did not operate on people on a regular basis.

Shit balls! This was not a good or neutral basis for any rational decision I was about to take. I spent a few months in a desperate quest for the truth. Until I heard from a mouth and throat specialist who suffered from sinusitis himself.

Even though he has had this several times a year, he did not want the surgery. I found out that he was afraid of the risks involved. He should know best, I said to myself. Finally, I decided against a surgery.


Many people will declare you as chronically sick, if you have had sinusitis for more than three months or more than four episodes of sinusitis within a year. However, this is just a helpless sign of capitulation of modern day mainstream medicine.

Labeling you as "the chronic" will not help you improve your life in any way. Read on if you want to end this.


Chances are that you can.


My best regards,
Marcus 

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