My sympathies. I know that feeling from colds etc, can't imagine having it as often or as long as you've been coping. WOW. I pray the surgery happens and is 100% successful!

My Dad's cousin had terrible headaches most of his life. Couldn't hold down a job. His wife did the income earning, he stayed home and raised the kids (this was in the 1930's, it just wasn't DONE then!).

At the age of 72, a new doc told him the problem: one bone at the top of the nasal passage had grown too long. Surgery, they filed that bone down, and TA DAH! For the first time in his adult life, he was pain free!

Sadly, 3 months later his wife died. Life is quirky like that. Sigh. So now he is 85, going strong, feels great.