I have a Neti pot but I'm too much of a wuss to use it. I'm useless at nasal sprays - my nose always hurts like hell if I squirt or spray something up it. Is that normal?
I have a Neti pot but I'm too much of a wuss to use it. I'm useless at nasal sprays - my nose always hurts like hell if I squirt or spray something up it. Is that normal?
I`ve been seeing an ENT Consultant for almost 10 years and have had several surgeries for several different reasons but I also suffer badly with my sinuses and the pain can be horrendous so I sympathize with anybody suffering the same. I also suffer from hay fever. Sometimes the only help is a course of antibiotics when my sinuses are bad but if it isn`t too bad then my Consultant always advises Otravine nasal spray but to only use it for 5 days, no more.
I have a lot of ear problems and my surgeries have involved grafting new eardrums, repairing a hole in my skull behind my ear with a bone graft where the brain lining dropped through and was causing pain in my ear and in danger of leaking brain fluid its called a cerebrospinal fluid leak of the temporal bone origin, mastoids and the bones in my ear rotting because of really severe infection to name but a few issues. My latest surgery not long ago was to remove benign growths where my adenoids used to be. I have very little hearing in one ear because of these issues and the other ear is beginning to fail too.
Consequently I cannot blow my nose hard, I have to sneeze into a tissue but with my mouth open, I cannot ever get water into my ear and the pressure from a cold or blocked sinuses or even the strain of being constipated and the pushing to go can be harmful to me and cause yet more ear. problems.
Omg, that sounds horrendous and frightening, V.I`ve been seeing an ENT Consultant for almost 10 years and have had several surgeries for several different reasons but I also suffer badly with my sinuses and the pain can be horrendous so I sympathize with anybody suffering the same. I also suffer from hay fever. Sometimes the only help is a course of antibiotics when my sinuses are bad but if it isn`t too bad then my Consultant always advises Otravine nasal spray but to only use it for 5 days, no more.
I have a lot of ear problems and my surgeries have involved grafting new eardrums, repairing a hole in my skull behind my ear with a bone graft where the brain lining dropped through and was causing pain in my ear and in danger of leaking brain fluid its called a cerebrospinal fluid leak of the temporal bone origin, mastoids and the bones in my ear rotting because of really severe infection to name but a few issues. My latest surgery not long ago was to remove benign growths where my adenoids used to be. I have very little hearing in one ear because of these issues and the other ear is beginning to fail too.
Consequently I cannot blow my nose hard, I have to sneeze into a tissue but with my mouth open, I cannot ever get water into my ear and the pressure from a cold or blocked sinuses or even the strain of being constipated and the pushing to go can be harmful to me and cause yet more ear. problems.
Ooh the thought of that ae sends shivers I occasionally use Sterimar to was my sinuses and inside my nose for rhinitis but don’t feel it’s much good, my inhaler is called Nasofan Aqueous and I’m supposed to take it two in each nostril twice a day, but only do two in each nostril of a night and it’s quite good. My asthma sounds a lot like yours, it’s a strange type. ❤
I`ve been seeing an ENT Consultant for almost 10 years and have had several surgeries for several different reasons but I also suffer badly with my sinuses and the pain can be horrendous so I sympathize with anybody suffering the same. I also suffer from hay fever. Sometimes the only help is a course of antibiotics when my sinuses are bad but if it isn`t too bad then my Consultant always advises Otravine nasal spray but to only use it for 5 days, no more.
I have a lot of ear problems and my surgeries have involved grafting new eardrums, repairing a hole in my skull behind my ear with a bone graft where the brain lining dropped through and was causing pain in my ear and in danger of leaking brain fluid its called a cerebrospinal fluid leak of the temporal bone origin, mastoids and the bones in my ear rotting because of really severe infection to name but a few issues. My latest surgery not long ago was to remove benign growths where my adenoids used to be. I have very little hearing in one ear because of these issues and the other ear is beginning to fail too.
Consequently I cannot blow my nose hard, I have to sneeze into a tissue but with my mouth open, I cannot ever get water into my ear and the pressure from a cold or blocked sinuses or even the strain of being constipated and the pushing to go can be harmful to me and cause yet more ear. problems.
I am not allowed to use nasal sprays only the steroid one once a day. This was from the hospital, and causing a hole up in my nose and it might start bleeding and being unable to get it to stop. I buy a generic antihistamine and take in the morning.
One nearby is a GP and only came out for the last 2 .Same here. Some clapped, some didn’t, and for all sorts of different reasons on both sides.
I guess you liked it as it was a good workout for your big old hands, Mazza (like me!)
I had a drunken fall a couple of years ago and broke two ribs LATI. It didn't hurt at the time obviously, but once the alcohol had worn off, the pain was unbelievable.Well folks I’ve had quite a week.
on Monday I fell and hurt my ribs. It hurt like hell but took a couple of tablets and went to work. Mon, Tues, wed all the same uncomfortable but manageable. However whatever way I tried to get up from the sofa last night it turned into one of the most painful things I’ve ever experienced.
phoned GP this morning (they have X-ray facilities) but reception gave me the brush off saying doctors are seeing no one for the past 12 weeks nor for the foreseeable future (someone tell me WTF they are doing whilst earning over 100k per year) so off to hospital we went as worried if broken ribs and punctured lung.
Arrived at A&E but as it was a little difficult when breathing was directed to C19 emergency department (our hospital is one of the main hospitals for this). Given face mask on arrival .Whilst there I had all the C19 tests, heart monitoring tests, blood tests and x ray. All tests done very quickly but a couple of hours waiting for results. Medical staff wonderful however I can’t be quite as complimentary about reception staff.
2 problems. The place had loads of immigrant workers who had been sent for testing by employers (food production factories) because they coughed. No English so lots of shouting and google translation as a last resport. They spent most of the time wandering around various test areas (no effort to stop them) with masks off, or on the wrong way, at the toilet and on their mobiles non stop.
the second was that I had to endure hours of Holly and Phil and then the gobby loose women!
Good news just cracked ribs which should heal in a few weeks and keep taking painkillers.
Well folks I’ve had quite a week.
on Monday I fell and hurt my ribs. It hurt like hell but took a couple of tablets and went to work. Mon, Tues, wed all the same uncomfortable but manageable. However whatever way I tried to get up from the sofa last night it turned into one of the most painful things I’ve ever experienced.
phoned GP this morning (they have X-ray facilities) but reception gave me the brush off saying doctors are seeing no one for the past 12 weeks nor for the foreseeable future (someone tell me WTF they are doing whilst earning over 100k per year) so off to hospital we went as worried if broken ribs and punctured lung.
Arrived at A&E but as it was a little difficult when breathing was directed to C19 emergency department (our hospital is one of the main hospitals for this). Given face mask on arrival .Whilst there I had all the C19 tests, heart monitoring tests, blood tests and x ray. All tests done very quickly but a couple of hours waiting for results. Medical staff wonderful however I can’t be quite as complimentary about reception staff.
2 problems. The place had loads of immigrant workers who had been sent for testing by employers (food production factories) because they coughed. No English so lots of shouting and google translation as a last resport. They spent most of the time wandering around various test areas (no effort to stop them) with masks off, or on the wrong way, at the toilet and on their mobiles non stop.
the second was that I had to endure hours of Holly and Phil and then the gobby loose women!
Good news just cracked ribs which should heal in a few weeks and keep taking painkillers.
Oh lati know how you are feeling. A couple of years ago I thought it would be a good idea to do a scissor kick. Wrong, I ended up with both feet off the floor,went up in the air and landed on my right side on the corner of a wooden table. I lay there unable to breathe and hubby asked me if I was laughing or crying. After ten minutes I was able to move and he got me off the floor onto the settee. Once he knew I hadn't broken any ribs,I was able to touch them without too much pain,he proceeded to examine the table. I knew he was only kidding, it took nearly a week for the pain to go and I sometimes get the odd twinge. You'd think at 70 I should have had more sense. I an laugh about it now. Hope you soon feel better.Well folks I’ve had quite a week.
on Monday I fell and hurt my ribs. It hurt like hell but took a couple of tablets and went to work. Mon, Tues, wed all the same uncomfortable but manageable. However whatever way I tried to get up from the sofa last night it turned into one of the most painful things I’ve ever experienced.
phoned GP this morning (they have X-ray facilities) but reception gave me the brush off saying doctors are seeing no one for the past 12 weeks nor for the foreseeable future (someone tell me WTF they are doing whilst earning over 100k per year) so off to hospital we went as worried if broken ribs and punctured lung.
Arrived at A&E but as it was a little difficult when breathing was directed to C19 emergency department (our hospital is one of the main hospitals for this). Given face mask on arrival .Whilst there I had all the C19 tests, heart monitoring tests, blood tests and x ray. All tests done very quickly but a couple of hours waiting for results. Medical staff wonderful however I can’t be quite as complimentary about reception staff.
2 problems. The place had loads of immigrant workers who had been sent for testing by employers (food production factories) because they coughed. No English so lots of shouting and google translation as a last resport. They spent most of the time wandering around various test areas (no effort to stop them) with masks off, or on the wrong way, at the toilet and on their mobiles non stop.
the second was that I had to endure hours of Holly and Phil and then the gobby loose women!
Good news just cracked ribs which should heal in a few weeks and keep taking painkillers.