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Cold symptoms and congestion/fluid in ear for 10 w...

For the past 10 weeks I've had on and off again symptoms where it feels like I have had a...

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Dr. Moser, I just wanted to provide an update on my symptoms in that my original doctor...

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My apologies, I forgot to add one piece of information. When I took the three day course...

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Thank you for the reply Dr. Moser; now that I've had various visits with my ENT doctor I...

Posted by Mr_Angry

Thank you for the reply Dr. Moser; now that I've had various visits with my ENT doctor I have more information and I'm in the process of getting a second opinion but hope you could provide some additional insight.

My ENT doctor recommended I have a CT scan and the results showed I did have sinusitis (he referred to it as mild but being spread throughout my nasal cavity). The ENT doctor had already prescribed me a three day treatment of Zithromax (500 mg capsules) and was now recommending I have surgery to correct the problem. I said I was not comfortable having surgery and was wondering if there was any additional course of antibiotics I could take but he was persistent on surgery as he did not want me to just take antibiotics and build up a possible resistance. I understand the care taken when using antibiotics but surgery to me is a last option and for a mild form of sinusitis it seems too much. The ENT doctor said if I wasn't willing to consider surgery he said I should continue using Nasonex and if in three months I was still having problems to follow up with him for surgery but I mentioned I was going to get another opinion.

In addition my wife is exhibiting symptoms of what I have for more than two weeks and her doctor has given her a ten day prescription of penicillin. When my wife described the details of my treatment (we have the same doctor) he was surprised to hear surgery was even mentioned and recommended I follow back up with him and get the same ten day treatment of penicillin that my wife is now on.

My question Dr. Moser is given I have already had a three day treatment of Zithromax and am presently using Nasonex and taking a 10 mg tablet of Loratadin daily to keep symptoms at bay is there any other antibiotic you would recommend? I am going to make a follow up appointment with my current physician but as much as I am concerned (and disagree) with the ENT doctor's recommendation of surgery I also just don't want to take a "catch all" antibiotic like penicillin if something more targeted is warranted. There might come a time when I really need penicillin so I'd like to make sure I take it only when I have to versus something more specific that I could discuss with my present physician.

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Thank you doctor, I have made another appointment with my ENT and will ask for some...

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