Need help/advice regarding very bad sleep
Hello. I have been suffering badly for the last 4-5 months due to enlarged turbinates at night. Essentially, 1 turbinate gets completely and fully blocked and I wake up extremely tired, even after going to sleep early and sleeping for at least 8 hours. It is borderline unbearable, I wake up feeling like a zombie, dragging myself out of bed to go to work.
I have tried everything: Buteyko breathing, diet changes for months, corticosteroid drops, sleeping with elevated pillows, saline cleanses 2-3 times a day. Everything. The only thing that works is oxymetalozine and similar sprays, but I obviously know better than to abuse them.
I have been to a dietician, a gastroenterologist (for silent LPR), 2 ENTs and an allergologist. I have been taking antihistamines and LPR treatment pills. Both ENTs suggested a turbinate reduction and potentially a septum correction. I Checked by CBCT scans and the septum deviation is very very margianal, so it couldn't possibly be from this.
I've cleaned out my room fully, changed sheets between 1-2 days, tried sleeping in other rooms, window open, window closed - nothing works.
At this point, all I can think of is having some kind of reduction. I found a doctor - Vik Veer, I saw someone posted on this subreddit that seemed to have exactly the same symptoms as me.
I realize people say that ENS is bad, but at this point I feel like what I have is close in terms of terrible sleep. I wake up maybe 5 times minimum at night and I feel panicky because I literally can barely breathe through my nose. I have awful headaches and my mouth is completely dried out in the morning. And the worst of it all - I have 0 energy. I used to go to the gym and lift super heavy, used to be a morning person and be super productive. Now that's all gone. I am left just praying that it either gets better by itself or to go and have a surgery to try to fix it.
One thing I did think about is that one nostril is slightly worse than the other, so if I do end up having some kind of reduction, I think I will try it in one nostril first and see if that helps.
I have attached a screenshot I took from the CBCT software, not sure if its the correct "depth" as I'm not a doctor, but perhaps it will give some kind of insight on this.
Any suggestions on this will be greatly appreciated.
