Dr. Sally Smalley

Keep a bottle of afrin in your bathroom cabinet. If you do have a nosebleed, spray 2-3 sprays in the nose and squeeze pressure on the soft part of the nose for 5 minutes. This will usually stop the nose bleed.
Keeping the nose moist is helpful. Use aquaphor ointment in the nose with a q tip at night to help with moisture.

Why do you think halitosis is from chronic sinusitis? Have you been diagnosed by an ENT with chronic sinusitis, which usually requires a CT sinus in order to see evidence of chronic disease remaining after maximal medical therapy (consisting of 3 weeks of antibiotics and oral steroids and topical nasal steroids)?
Halitosis is much more commonly from untreated reflux disease, possible H Pylori infection, or tonsil stones. Much less likely is your bad breath from sinus infections. Get a CT sinus ordered by your primary care and go see an ENT physician

I would let it go, and try gargling hot salt water 2 or 3 times a day for a few days.

If you actually had a ear infection, you may have resolving fluid within the middle ear space. It may take about 30 days to resolve completely. this is normal.
Use nasal steroid spray daily for minimum 14 days, and you may also try using Afrin nasal spray twice daily for 3 days only, while trying to equalize the pressure in your ears. This will help to resorb the fluid remaining in the middle ear space.

I don't see anything abnormal in your picture, but I wouldn't worry about it. In the setting of acute inflammation, sore throat conditions, its not unusual to see varied glandular hypertrophy within the mouth and throat. Stay hydrated. take antiinflammatories. It will resolve with time.

Nothing data supported, but various patients have had success with different options they found reading things on the internet. Removing the tonsils is the only sure way to stop chronic tonsillitis

sure. anti-inflammatories, hydration, cepachol benzocaine throat lozenges, gargling hot salt water brine...

A sinus infection does not last 1-2 days. Thats a common cold. This time, it sounds like you actually have a bacterial sinus infection. Use Afrin nasal spray twice daily for 3 days, flonase nasal spray daily for 14 days, and you may go visit your primary care to get antibiotics. Or as you read below, you will probably get better on your own.

From the American Academy of Family Practice.org:

The signs and symptoms of acute bacterial rhinosinusitis and prolonged viral upper respiratory infection are similar, which makes accurate clinical diagnosis difficult. Because two thirds of patients with acute bacterial rhinosinusitis improve without antibiotic treatment and most patients with viral upper respiratory infection improve within seven days, antibiotic therapy should be reserved for use in patients who have had symptoms for more than seven days and meet clinical criteria.

Four signs and symptoms are the most helpful in predicting acute bacterial rhinosinusitis: purulent nasal discharge, maxillary tooth or facial pain (especially unilateral), unilateral maxillary sinus tenderness, and worsening symptoms after initial improvement.

You cannot reduce the nodules through diet changes. Thyroid nodules are very common and most of the time are benign. Your diet or bypass surgery did not create your thyroid nodules. there were probably there for years without you knowing it,.

1. Stop smoking. this will kill you, or give you throat or lung cancer.
2. You probably are giving yourself a VC hematoma, bruising your VC with all that harsh coughing. This will change the vibration of the VC until it heals, so you won't have much of a voice.
3. Those are tonsil stones, not VC scabs.
4. dryness is bad for your vocal cords.
5. stop smoking. its expensive and will kill you.

This can be from just about anything; recent infection, allergies, reflux, voice overuse, untreated sleep apnea, smoking, overuse of antihistamines, dehydration. A lot contributes to the sensation of pain and mucus, as well as he production of mucus in the throat. Go over your symptoms and surrounding events with your primary physician to try and narrow down the problem before going to see an ENT.

The best way to investigate this problem is have an ENT examine the internal anatomy of your nose. I doubt the physical act of talking is having anything to do with your congestion. What does impact the anatomy of the nose is blood pressure and humidity. inside the nose are turbinates, which will fluctuate in size and volume based on the body's position, blood pressure and humidity in the air you are breathing. These can change the nasal airflow significantly. Use a nasal steroid spray daily for at least 4 weeks before you go to see an ENT to examine the anatomy of your nasal passages.

Equalizing the ear pressure has nothing to do with your ear wax, as this is a product of middle ear pressure. Middle ear pressure is regulated by the eustachian tube. Ear wax is produced differently by different people and should not be "washed out" but should be removed under a microscope by an ENT physician or audiologist. If you have hearing loss, it is likely NOT from your ear wax but from unregulated negative ear pressure (eustachian tube dysfunction) or sensorineural hearing loss.
Get a hearing test (audiogram) before you start blaming your hearing loss on ear wax. There could be much more going on that could be addressed.

I would go see an ent who can examine your ear thoroughly. Tympanomastoidectomy can change the way an ear drum appears, which may be hard to see what's normal or abnormal by a primary care doctor. It depends what kind of ear surgeries you had. If you had what's called a canal wall down mastoidectomy, you will have a lot of empty space in there which can collect fluid. Either way, i would have an ENT take a look

Sounds like you might be having salivary stones produced in your parotid gland. A CT face can be helpful to locate the, which may be amenable to removal by an ent surgeon. I would start by getting seen by an ENT, to have them palpate and examine the parotid glands.

You can certainly use debrox drops if your want to help soften any wax that's left. Also letting hot water irrigate through the ear, like whole you take a shower, will help soften any wax that's in there.

Looks like strep, in your picture i see white exudates on the tonsils. The Centor criteria is the clinical diagnosis for strep. (Fever, white exudates on the tonsils, enlarged tender lymph nodes, Absence of cough). Ear ache is common from any type of pharyngitis, because the nerves share pathways at the back of the throat. This is what we call, referred ear pain.
I would ask for a strep test and at least 10 days of amoxicillin.

Yes you can get apthous ulcers of the tongue, also called a canker sore.

You may not have a "disease". You may be experiencing what's called turbinate cycling, or inferior turbinate hypertrophy. The turbinates are the humidifiers of the nose, and they will swell and fluctuate in size based on your body position and temperature in the air. Your left side of your nose may simply have less room, and therefore it bothers you more. Have an ENT take a look.

Well, it sounds like you are having a lot of various symptoms which could be from numerous components, such as anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, low blood pressure, rare endocrine problems, or migraine syndromes. But depending on your body fat and anatomy, having the blood vessels visible in your neck is not that abnormal. A CT angiogram is a type of imaging that looks at the shape of the blood vessels. If you really want to see if you have an aneurysm, ask your doctor to order you one.