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Anybody ever dealt with a swollen turbinate?

Discussion in 'General Discussion Subforum' started by Messyz, Apr 19, 2026 at 5:34 PM.

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    Messyz New Member

    I feel that I’m experienced with pain and TMS now as I’ve beaten conditions like pelvic pain, finger pain, back pain, and trigeminal neuralgia symptoms in the past 7-8 years.

    I’m now dealing with a symptom that is swelling almost 24/7 and I’m kind of on to it as possibly being TMS but haven’t heard a lot of things about it in the TMS community as it’s not painful and blocks my breathing. So a month ago I blew my nose and noticed some minor blood in my right nostril and felt something in my nose. My turbinate in the right nostril was swollen. Then 3 days later came pain and pressure in that same area on the outside of my nose that was on and off and feeling that my face was hot that was also on and off. I chalked the pain/heat feeling to TMS as I thought that was pretty weird and doesn’t make sense as it happened days after the turbinate swelling. After 2-3 weeks the pain/pressure feeling has been gone but I’ve been getting 1-2 second pain anywhere on my body a couple times a day (I am convinced even this pain is TMS and will pass eventually). But, the main thing I’m dealing with that is bothering me is the turbinate swelling which effects my breathing. I went to a doctor who said it’s turbinate hypertrophy and followed up with an ENT who took a ct scan that was normal besides having a deviated septum which I know I’ve always had and can’t breathe that good from before through my left nostril. My turbinate wasn’t that swollen at that moment when they took the scan and looked inside my nose (funny because the dang turbinate is swollen almost 24/7) and mentioned to just use Flonase which hasn’t done anything. He did mention we could do a septoplasty surgery for my septum and to reduce the turbinate size which I’m very cautious of doing at the moment and don’t believe 100% that this will fix my issue even though I’ve heard a deviated septum could cause “turbinate hypertrophy”.

    The reason I think it may be TMS is because for some reason the turbinate isn’t swollen right away when waking up sometimes in the morning. I’ve noticed if I stay in bed in the morning while half asleep (closed eyes but noticing my breathing) I can breathe fine through the right nostril, but when I get out of bed it becomes swollen after a minute and stays swollen all day and affects my breathing. I even went to sleep one night at 10 pm and woke up an hour later noticing my breathing was great and that the turbinate had completely shrunk and the redness inside my nostril was gone as well but I fell back asleep quickly to which I would assume it would swell back up in a minute of being awake. Sometimes in middle of night when I wake up to use the restroom it’s a 50/50 on whether it’s blocked or not. It also shrinks in size when being outside sometimes but swells back up when being inside pretty quickly. Also when exercising I can breathe good and during a shower but both are short lived and the turbinate swells back as I’ve heard it does in turbinate hypertrophy.

    Has anybody dealt with this? I know there’s not a lot on swelling in TMS and on this specific situation. I feel like going back to the same ENT or a different ENT to show them the turbinate swelling again and explain all the stuff that I’ve recently found out but I’m not really sure if that would accomplish anything. I feel as that maybe if I got reassurance that if my deviated septum would be truly causing this as I don’t know exactly which side is deviated as I’ve read the opposite side of the deviation in the nostril could swell the turbinate. I mentioned I’ve noticed the turbinate swelling reduced after sleep sometimes, so how would a structural issue like a deviated septum cause it to go away like the one time when I fell asleep at 10 and woke up an hour later.
     

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