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Posted by sleepdeprived on February 26, 2009 at 06:42:44:

I am a 22 yr old female. I have had my deviated septum corrected, and a functional rhinoplasty, and still have trouble breathing through my nose, so i continue to mouth breathe during the day and at night time (which negatively affects my sleep). I tell my ENT doctors it feels like my airways are TOO narrow, like im breathing through little tiny straws. They say "oh well theres nothing in the way like your septum or polyps" I know there isn't anything in the way!! Isn't there a way to make the narrow parts of my airway bigger like by spreader grafts or something? I've tried nasal dilators, cpap, you name it. Its getting so old, and no im not congested and dont have rhinitis. If anything im congested because my nose is soo narrow that mucous can't get through. Also, I was born two months prematurely, and had sleep apnea as a baby (because i couldn't breathe through my nose then either). The only time i felt like I could breathe through my nose was after my septoplasty when the splints were in my nose. Once the surgeon took them out it was back to mouth breathing. I'm assuming where the splints were placed is the narrow part of my airway and the splint stretched out that area. Please any input would be great im desperate.

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