Deciding to Go Ahead with This Surgery Changed my Life. I'll Never Believe There is Anyone Better, Anywhere!

About 2 years before meeting Dr. Patel, I had my first unsuccessful surgery to correct a deviated septum. This was something I'd been born with that had worsened over the years to the point that I suffered from minor breathing difficulty and nearly constant sinus infections, despite treatment with the strongest antibiotics or any noninvasive procedures. After my first septoplasty, I was excited to finally know what it felt like to breathe normally. The result was the polar opposite. Not only did my breathing trouble worsen, but the infections worsened. I shrugged it off as "bad luck" and as soon as I was offered a 2nd surgery to revise it, I jumped at the opportunity, despite the fact that the recovery had been one of the most painful things I'd ever dealt with. The results of the 2nd surgery can only be described with one word...WORSE. Everything got worse. During early recovery, you're expected to sleep with your head raised to prevent drainage, etc. From the time of the recovery from the first surgery, until meeting Dr. Patel 2 years later, I never slept laying down in my bed and was restricted to a recliner because as my breathing worsened, I became unable to breathe laying down. I became depressed, unable to do even the simplest things due to shortness of breath. I can't tell you how much I took sleeping in bed for granted! It sounds like something so meaningless, but once you can't do it, it becomes so important. A month after my surgery with Dr. Patel, I was able to sleep without even snoring, much less any serious difficulty breathing. I can't begin to explain how wonderful that felt. At our first meeting, I was skeptical. I was convinced that there was no chance of improvement and that the PAINFUL recovery I'd experienced wouldn't be worth going through a 3rd time. Dr. Patel seemed confident that he could help me and I decided to roll the dice against a lifetime of breathing difficulty and the constant risk of infection, pneumonia, etc. I am so glad that I did. You never know how much you appreciate the simple act of breathing until you can't do it. And when you can't breathe, nothing else matters. If you are having a similar experience, if you are skeptical, if meeting Dr. Patel wasn't or isn't enough to convince you, please take my experience into account and give yourself the chance to breathe again. My last recovery was actually easier than the first two somehow...and now I'm able to breathe again, to sleep normally again, to not be constantly sick. It was worth it. Dr. Patel changed my life and gave me a chance of living a normal one again, nothing short of that.