Evening all, interesting stuff, makes me feel a bit better knowing I'm not the only one suffering. The last ENT 'specialist' I saw on Monday following a CT scan, acted like I was wasting his time. The CT scan showed no more inflammation in my sinuses than 'normal'.
What's normal?
I've had the camera up the nose twice; almost as painful and unpleasant as flying with my sinusus blocked.
My job involves three or four flights a day in a B200, not up front unfortunately, then spending a couple of hours on the ground before flying again.
The last flight I tried was an OPC, about an hour in total, and was okay for 40mins or so but then I got a bad headache, lots of sinus pain and it actually felt like my head was distorting to a rugby ball shape. Sort of pressure feeling corner to corner. We landed soon after, and I went into shock. Not happy.
I've just stopped eating dairy to see if that helps, and I think it is a little; four days in now, and the last two days I feel a little better. I'm on the antihistamines too, so maybe its those.
I've got some Nasonex, but it doesn't seem very effective. I was on Betnesol drops before, and that settled things within a few days when unbearable back in June. I found them quite unpleasant to take too, and I couldn't really tell how many drops I was putting in each nostril. In the end I decided the tipping my head upside down off the edge of the sofa twice a day gave me more headaches just when I didn't need it (i.e. having got up with a bad head, then going to bed with a thumping head again). Things seem to be settling down, and I haven't had a really bad day for a while now.
I do wonder whether I still have some virus on me; this all started with an ear infection which cleared after antibiotics, but the sticky ears feeling never cleared. I could always clear the pressure in my ears, but it was a real struggle sometimes. My eustacion tubes are really 'clunky'; they thump and clunk and I clear them, whereas they always used to clear with just a light click. From time to time I'm still going hot and cold, and have real wobbly moments. Two days ago I had no energy whatsoever, I was just flattened, felt utterly lousy.
Anyone else suffering with sinusitis or rhinitis showing these virus type symptoms?
Sorry, I've gone on a bit. Hope you're not
