I do understand your concern. On the right side, Doc had to go deeper, clipped part of the st. proc., and decided to not take it - his call. I can understand what he did. I really felt in very good hands with him. I ended up with this:Maybe this clipped part left in there is pinging on the nerve that controls this, or maybe this nerve was damaged. They can regenerate, which is what I am hoping. I was as nasally sounding as you can get. Water and food would/could come out my nose, really bad.
Dr. Garvis first recommended I see a speech pathologist, and then I had some barium swallow test done.
THen I saw Dr. Berman - part of the same team as Dr. Garvis. I loved him. He usually only works with children and had never done this procedure (I think) on an adult in the clinic setting.
It took an hr. to do.. the basics were - scopes, etc. running in through the nose and finding the precise point where to inject this filler (hyruolinic (sp.) acid. After the first procedure, it worked wonders. After the 2nd, there was no nasal escape whatsoever. Dr. Berman says it's too soon to tell about the nerve, but as of right now, no one would know.
I saw Dr. Wm. Garvis, and he did both sides intraorally. (sp.)
He does it that way because he said you risk damaging a facial nerve and why take that risk?
He does his surgeries at Abbott. I was very happy with his work - no complaints.. I did have an issue that happened with the 2nd one but am dealing with it.
I am looking for the best place to start as I suspect I may have ES. My primary care dr has referred me to Mayo, however if that is not the best place for this particular syndrome, I'd rather go elsewhere. I see some doctors mentioned back in Feb. of 2015. Just wondering if any of you would care to share your outcome and how you have been doing in the past year?
I do understand your concern. On the right side, Doc had to go deeper, clipped part of the st. proc., and decided to not take it - his call. I can understand what he did. I really felt in very good hands with him. I ended up with this:Maybe this clipped part left in there is pinging on the nerve that controls this, or maybe this nerve was damaged. They can regenerate, which is what I am hoping. I was as nasally sounding as you can get. Water and food would/could come out my nose, really bad.
Dr. Garvis first recommended I see a speech pathologist, and then I had some barium swallow test done.
THen I saw Dr. Berman - part of the same team as Dr. Garvis. I loved him. He usually only works with children and had never done this procedure (I think) on an adult in the clinic setting.
It took an hr. to do.. the basics were - scopes, etc. running in through the nose and finding the precise point where to inject this filler (hyruolinic (sp.) acid. After the first procedure, it worked wonders. After the 2nd, there was no nasal escape whatsoever. Dr. Berman says it's too soon to tell about the nerve, but as of right now, no one would know.
I saw Dr. Wm. Garvis, and he did both sides intraorally. (sp.)
He does it that way because he said you risk damaging a facial nerve and why take that risk?
He does his surgeries at Abbott. I was very happy with his work - no complaints.. I did have an issue that happened with the 2nd one but am dealing with it.
I am looking for the best place to start as I suspect I may have ES. My primary care dr has referred me to Mayo, however if that is not the best place for this particular syndrome, I'd rather go elsewhere. I see some doctors mentioned back in Feb. of 2015. Just wondering if any of you would care to share your outcome and how you have been doing in the past year?