Empty Nose Syndrome: Yaniv Oz – A Life Changed After Nasal Surgery

This episode tells the story of Yaniv Oz, a young Israeli man whose health deteriorated after nasal surgery involving turbinate reduction.

Through the account of his mother, Toni Carroll, we follow Yaniv’s life before surgery, the gradual development of severe symptoms, his repeated search for medical answers, and his eventual discovery of the Empty Nose Syndrome community.

The episode also explains the physiology behind ENS — including altered nasal resistance, loss of airflow sensation, air hunger, disturbed breathing regulation, sleep disruption, autonomic stress, hyperventilation, hypocapnia, and the paradox of feeling unable to breathe despite having an excessively open nasal airway.

Yaniv died by suicide in 2018 at the age of 26, on the day he was due to meet a doctor familiar with Empty Nose Syndrome.

This episode is shared in his memory, and to increase awareness of the potentially devastating consequences of excessive turbinate reduction.

Content warning: This episode discusses severe illness, psychological suffering.

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