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Sinus infections

Matt Foley

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Anyone ever had one of these beauts? I'm just getting over what I believe is my first one. First three days it was like the worst head cold of my life, but then it wasn't going away. My teeth would hurt. My left eyeball would hurt (not the eye itself, but everything around it). So then I'm thinking I've got the damn flu. Not a good thing when your health insurance has run out.

For seven days, my ears wouldn't pop. It was like I was on an airplane that whole time. Then for three more they would pop in and out. They're finally popped most of the time right now.

Then one of my facebook friends is a lower respiratory specialist and he tells me I've got a sinus infection. Just blew my nose...out of the right side, clear stuff comes out. Out of the left, where my eye hurts, dark yellow.

Weird stuff, man.

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Everyone I know has had that same thing in the last month or so. Been brutal...takes about 2 weeks to clear up. I am still not at 100% yet. Try all the over the counter stuff you want, it really don't work IMO. I started with Mucinex and went on to trying almost everything else also. If it is a true sinus infection (which is what it sounds like), you need an antiboitic. If you have a cold, then it just needs to run its course.

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Everyone I know has had that same thing in the last month or so. Been brutal...takes about 2 weeks to clear up. I am still not at 100% yet. Try all the over the counter stuff you want, it really don't work IMO. I started with Mucinex and went on to trying almost everything else also. If it is a true sinus infection (which is what it sounds like), you need an antiboitic. If you have a cold, then it just needs to run its course.

A lot of docs won't give anti-biotics for sinus infections now... trust me, I've tried. Every time they give me one it clears it right up though... :rolleyes:

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Used to get them yearly around Nov.-Dec. due to allergies before I started taking daily meds for them. Of course, I then stopped taking them this winter and got a nice sinus infection that just started clearing up the last few days.

Best advice? Take a drill, some whiskey, and go to town.

It's not like they're full, though. I might as well ride it out at this point. Only remnants of it are the soreness around my eye and my right ear keeps popping in and out.

Weirdest cold I've ever had if it was just a cold.

On second thought....when I worked for NASCAR we all went to Japan for a week, and we all came back with this crap that lasted two weeks. Maybe this is some Asian gunk going around?

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