Paranasal sinuses, headaches and a year of training

Dear Mrs Berndsen,

it started 4 years ago with severe pain at the back of my head and mucous discharge from the left side of my nose. Only after a long time did I go to an ENT doctor; a CT scan revealed sphenoid sinusitis and, after a long course of antibiotics, surgery was recommended.

I then saw several ENT doctors, and all of them advised me to have the operation. Some also said I had TMD and sent me to the dentist; others said it was muscle tension, but had no further solutions. I then invested a lot of money in occlusal splints and even travelled to the “GURU” in Kiel and paid huge amounts of money, but there was simply no improvement.

My first operation then took place in May 2015, with no improvement. The second operation was in June 2016, because a mucocele had formed in the frontal sinus as a result of the first operation. A third operation also followed, because scarring can easily occur – nobody had ever mentioned that beforehand. As my pain did not ease, an ENT doctor recommended a neurologist, unfortunately. He suspected Alzheimer’s – really awful; thank God a 2nd neurologist ruled out this diagnosis.

I also tried osteopathy, physiotherapy, neural therapy, leech therapy, acupuncture and homoeopathy, unfortunately never with lasting success. Thank God I was lucky enough to find a dentist, the first one who did not want to make money out of me, and who sent me to ISST Unna, Dr. Berndsen. Mrs Berndsen told me that she could probably help me, and identified the causes of my problems as dysfunctions in the mouth and throat area, lack of lip closure and mouth breathing. A strongly deviating head balance and tongue posture. Because of the lack of nasal breathing, my paranasal sinus system was not being ventilated.

Mrs Berndsen carried out intensive exercise-based treatment with me, in which exercises with the FaceFormer played an important role. She also said straight away that it would take quite a long time before I felt better and that I would have to do the exercises consistently. I have been training with the FaceFormer for almost a year. Little by little I felt better and better, and I am very satisfied with the result. Mrs Berndsen recognised the causes much better than everyone else before and knows connections that the ENT doctors are apparently not aware of at all.

I am deeply grateful to Mrs Berndsen and will keep my further appointments with her exactly. She is the first person who has shown me the right way. In addition, there were no extra costs apart from the FaceFormer. A completely insignificant amount when I think that I had previously spent a very large sum on unsuccessful treatments, which on top of that kept making my suffering worse.

Kind regards, Marita W.