Chronic sinusitis causing anxiety & depression??

Hey,

Im pretty curious about how your surgery went and if you feel any improvement concerning anxiety and depression ?

I'm also suffering from these two symptoms since dealing wtih sinusitis and had surgery 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately, it is all still inflamed due to surgery but maybe if the healing process is over i will feel the benefits.

I mostly think that this type of anxiety is caused by an overproduction of the hormone cortisol. When the body fights an infection it produces cortisol to fight the inflammation but sometimes it cant fight the infcetion properly and therefore cortisol levels stay elevated. I did an hormone test and my cortisol levels were elevated thus i think that this hormone greatly contributes to our state of mind.

Cortisol plays an important role in the fight or flight response and thats why we are feeling anxoiuos because our body constantly tries to protect us. 

Some thoughts ?

 

That you react to stimulants like coffee is also an indicator for and overproduction of cortisol  by its elevating effect.

Sorry not from an englisch speaking country hope you guys understand me

I get amp up and irritiable which i read is one of the many symptoms of chronic sinusitis. I do feel part of that is the over reaction of your nose and sinuses which is the first line of defense for our body.What gets me is that i can't plan anything and when i do my first response is a wave of fear because i have no idea how i am going to feel the next day. FRUSTRATING

ME TOO!! I am 15 years old and I have Chronic sinusitus for the last five years. Only now I am taking it seriously and having my CT scan in 3 days, and lets see if its poyps or whatever and get an ENT afterwards. But the big thing is I have allergy, astma, so Sinusitus is worse. WORST OF ALL IS THE DEPRESSING TIREDNESS AND LETHARGY. Basically 5 years ago I got a simple cold and ever since then my sinusitus has been getting worse with SEVERE SEVERE SEVER CONSTANT tiredness, depression, some anxiety, always blocked, poor sleep, sleep apena, pressure behind eyes, thick mucus, and headaches (sinus). I wish the sinuses weren't so troublsm. Believe it or not I even had thoughts of suicide from this condition. After suffering and wasting 5 years of TIREDNESS and congestion, I am just about to do a CT scan and the doctor asked me to consider allergy shots. TIRED TIRED TIRED AND DEPRESSED AS A RESULT, I suffered 5 years and then I realized that my severe tiredness is coming from sinus and allergies. Again tiredness is crazy, posiblly polyps. I have tried so many sprays, irrigation, tablets, and herbal remidies, going Vegan + herbal remidies (on going as I type). Lets see what works.

Hi DDR and everyone else,

I feel like I'm getting somewhere. A frequent visitor on the anxiety forum, I have come back to realize that the bouts of anxiety and "brain fog" I have been feeling since May 2016 (8 months) is what I thought originally -- sinus related. In other words, the anxiety was a SYMPTOM, not a cause, along with the mental fog.

I just had sinus surgery on Thursday (1/26). 60 hours later I feel marginally better, though until the splints and packing are removed on Monday, I will continue to suffer breathing through my mouth only. I'm doing the nedi rinsing at least 4x daily, which I'm sure is helping overall, though I don't really notice since I'm still blocked up. It's like I had the surgery and went home with a severe sinus infection. Gotta take a step back before moving forward I guess.

Anyway, I've realized something while I've been 'recovering' this weekend. The ENT said it was a mess up there, with the polyps as well as a severely deviated septum. So, I'm beginning to feel more comfortable in what has been the root cause of what's been going on these past 8 months. Anxiety was a biproduct, but wasn't the underlying cause. People kept telling me anxiety, but I countered with "why now?". Why after all this time of never showing anxiety symptoms, and it just so happened to follow a pretty bad sinus infection during the peak of the spring allergy season?

One other thing -- someone here mentioned intrusive or unwanted thoughts. How's this for an 8 month OCD: I have gotten so scared of losing my wit that I have gone to the dictionary more than once daily just to verify if I know a word. It could be a word I already know, or something I forgot. I can tell you that in the height of this fog (I've had some good days, some bad days, and some really bad days), I can have recall memory issues. As in staring at a gardening rake and wondering, "what's that?" Such has been my life for a long while now, and I really believe it all stems from the sinus issues. I'm hoping as I recover from the surgery, the fog will clear, and the mental checking, rumination, and intrusive thoughts will also disappear.

Morning,

Just noticed this thread after a Google search. Been diagnosed with chronic sinusitis after 3 months of trouble with them. I'm now on my second set of antibiotics (doxycyline) and a new spray (mometasone)

I've also been on a course of anti depressants recently and have been struggling with depression over the last year. I am now off these tablets since around xmas. Mainly due to the fact I felt like the worst of it was over and I had to deal with the chest infection that turned into the sinus troubles.

I too have been having anxiety episodes and have been feeling irritable and snappy. They are subsiding now but at the worst I've been having full blown panic attacks. It's making for a very difficult time studying as I just feel so disconnected to it all and my quality of work has suffered.

I'm just playing along with the doctor at the moment but ive no issue about the surgery as I just want to get to the bottom of this and enjoy my life without that constant dull headache and ringing in my ears.

All the best with your recoverys

Hi All,  I have chronic sinusitis and had a CT scan in December showing extensive pansinusitis, concha bullosa, and deviated septum.  Surgery was scheduled for 1/20/17, but I cam down with pneumonia the week prior and was hospitalized and it had to be cancelled.  It is now 3/29 and I cannot wait.  I too have the depression, snappyness, extreme fatigue, and cravings for caffeine, sugar, etc.  I can drink 3 cups of coffee and take a nap. I have probably gone through 30 boxes of tissue and 20 boxes of mucinex D since Oct when it became apparent I had to have surgery due to complete blockages.  I am looking forward to feeling better and having this symptoms gone.  Thank you for sharing.