Here I am again. Random note, if my health anxiety was a human being, it would definitely receive a punch or two
The newest anchor point of my anxiety may be a bit awkward to explain. I've been putting this off for a while because I don't know how to seek help for this and whether I should because it may be normal? To cut a long story short, my curious nature (and a random one off palatal pain) discovered that we have a second set of, nostrils, I guess? You can't see them because they're above your palate. Anyway - the right nasal side feels nice and open but the left one pretty much is blocked :( It feels like the nasal wall extends all the way to the septum!! And now I've noticed that this is the nostril that's draining the majority of the time - explaining my unexplained post nasal drip which I've had for a very long time now! When the left nostril's pretty much empty of mucus (rarely) I can breathe perfectly fine, but just a little bit of junk and it's blocked up. And now that the weather's changing and the the floral life is coming back to life here in the UK, I feel this is going to get worse!
So basically I've googled (I know...) every endoscopy image available, and my brain's boiled it down to either natural anatomy or cancer :( The C taking up the majority of the thought waves, naturally. Especially when I start seeing blood, but my rational brain is pretty sure it's just me breaking small blood vessels by brute force, frankly.
Problem is, I had the chance to get this checked at! I was recently at the ENT for another problem, and I thought I could hit two birds with one stone (you know to save everyone's time etc.) and asked whether they could check my post nasal drip but they refused, stating I need to go back to my GP and get referred again. UK people - do you have any idea whether a gp themselves can investigate the nose with an issue like this or would I have to be referred? Does my description ring a bell to anyone?
Sorry for the usual rant, brain's cornering me again!
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