Sinus infection anyone?
 

Lots of sneezes at school but I think mine is self inflicted. I dove int a pool Saturday and apparently inhaled half the water into my sinuses and ears. Now I have yellow snot for days and am weak. I use a navage 3 times a day which helps but this crap ain’t goin away. Came home from school today to weak to teach shop.
Any ideas?

Saline spray for nostrils.

Make sure at night you are hydrated.

I haven't had one since my move to AZ.

I had 1-2 a year for about 20-25 years. I got them the most in the fall in NJ with the crunching of leaves on the golf course. Also the pollen in the spring.

The post nasal drip and squishy ears and pain around the eye sockets are the worst.

Gatorade is your friend.

get them all the time unfortunately. enough to where I've considered sinus surgery.

As mentioned - saline spray (though the gel seems to work better for me).

Sinus rinse (netti)

Sudafed (the kind you have to sign for) helps open up your ears/nose/breathing

Go to the doctor, have him prescribe a Z-pack. You'll be fine in a few days, whereas a sinus infection can linger for weeks if left untreated.

Sinus infection anyone?
 

Lots of sneezes at school but I think mine is self inflicted. I dove int a pool Saturday and apparently inhaled half the water into my sinuses and ears. Now I have yellow snot for days and am weak. I use a navage 3 times a day which helps but this crap ain’t goin away. Came home from school today to weak to teach shop.
Any ideas?

Get antibiotics from your doctor.

My strongest suggestion, stay away from nasal spray.

I'm 100% addicted, and the rebound affect is terrible, causes acute sinusitis over time.

I can't breath unless I hit the spray every few hours now.

Sucks!

Seems like what is read is 50/50 meds or not. Looking for home/Walgreens remedies.

The hell are you doing, man? It specifically says right on the bottle not to exceed the recommended dosage or it can make symptoms worse. Use as directed, and it will do exactly what it's intended to do. You are abusing it and blaming it on the spray.

Go to the doctor, have him prescribe a Z-pack. You'll be fine in a few days, whereas a sinus infection can linger for weeks if left untreated.

Something is going around, I feel pretty blah to be honest.

If you aren't taking antibiotics, your only option is to treat symptoms and wait it out. There is no OTC or home cure for a sinus infection.

A Zpak would help fix the issue if its a bacterial infection... I'm not suggesting anyone does this, but one could theoretically purchase antibiotic capsules for fish, as they are the same capsules that are used for humans but don't require a prescription because you'd be purchasing them for fish. In this case a Zpak is Azithromycin 250mg, 2 capsules on the first day, followed by 1 capsule daily for the next 4 days...

(This is not a recommendation necessarily: I say theoretically of course, as fish antibiotics are not regulated in the same way as human antibiotics, though oftentimes the capsules sold are produced by the same companies on the same assembly lines, but once produced, they potentially undergo different standards of care, and if the case of a cross-contamination or anything occurs, you wouldn't have the same legal protections that you would hold with prescription antibiotics.)

If the sinus infection is viral, nothing you can really do other than treat symptoms and stay hydrated.

Worked in pharmacy: Learned from drug reps that the only difference for a number of companies is that they package it differently.

Again, not a recommendation per se, more knowledge for people as a last resort.

I remember getting a sinus infection several times back in the 80's. You can get an infection from things like your pool or maybe even falling into some random white powder by accident.
You need some antibiotics and some pseudoephedrine. You'll feel good as new in a few days.

I did that to myself right after I got out of college. Basically, the doctor prescribed nasicort and ibuprofen to eliminate as much inflamation as possible and I just had to ride it out for a couple of weeks. Now I only use Afrin if I'm super stuffed and I only use it once per day and never ever use it 2 days in a row.

Use a neti pot and only spray one side for a few days to let the other heal.

Well I added a few drops of nasal spray to my navage and woke up after a nap clear headed. Still weak but wow. Now you are saying to avoid spray. STFU

it's fine once or twice...but keep it up and you get terrible rebound congestion that is worse than the original congestion

It's a flesh eating amoeba, and the "snot" is actually broken down brain matter. RIP.

Z-Pack and Neti Pot

Interesting. I grew up in the livestock field and many products for livestock are the same but cost a LOT more as meds for humans.

Now my question is why can’t we determine-if it’s a viral or fungal or another type of infection but we can put several people in a mini submarine to go see the titanic !

Don’t take fish antibiotics. Poor tip from CP physicians.

You can with bloodwork and cultures

Cow de-wormer good. Fish antibiotic bad.

What about horse tranquilizers?

It's a downward spiral, takes a couple weeks to kick.

Literally my worst vice.

It's literally the same ingredient drug and the same dosage. It's even in capsules because with fish, they absorb it through the water.

You're right, what would a personal friend who's a pharmacist know when they told me that I should be fine to go ahead and do it when I didn't have insurance years ago? I'm sure that their pharmacy school and doctorate doesn't mean a damn thing.

The risks are the ones that I presented in the statement I wrote. I wasn't even trying to disguise that, nor am I endorsing it, I'm just saying that that is an option that can work (and has) if times are tough and you can't afford to get to a doctor.

Obviously, thats not the case on everything, and the only one I happen to know about is the antibiotics that are made for fish being essentially the same. The only reason I know the fish thing was because I had a pharmacist I worked for/ a friend tell me such and I talked with a drug rep we had coming in once who told me about the manufacturing process stuff (He apparently went from that division to human pharma). But I've heard theres a lot of crossover when it comes types of drugs and such.

It's essentially same concept. Just like the usual human/ livestock barrier that items meant for human use have more stringent production standards in terms of preventing potential cross contamination and transportation standards under the FDA while most livestock products don't.

And in regards to determining the type of infection, yeah, I wish they had a more widely available testing method of some kind that isn't overpriced (for insurance to mark it up) or anything. But at the end of the day, if you have the means, probably should just see a doctor or take stuff for the symptoms.

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LMAO

Have you tried injecting bleach into your body?

Have you?

If not, you should

Great advice. :thumb:

Same problem occurs with eye drops like Visine.

Doxycycline anti-biotic

Not sure if they do z=pac anymore.


Each fall, I get something like a sinus infection. Take that. It takes time to go away, but better than suffering.

I used to get 1-2 sinus infections a winter. Doc recommended Vitamin D. I get the 50,000 IU pills from Amazon. I take them 3-4 times a week during winter, 1-2x a week during summer.

No sinus infections in the intervening 15+ years. My colds are far less frequent and much less severe. Instead of a cold that knocks me of my feet for 5-7 days, it’s 2-3 days and pretty mild. If I don’t take my Vitamin D as I should, I can get more severe colds but I still don’t get the infections.

Don’t get the 5,000 unit pills. Get the 50,000 ones. 3-4 times a week from October thru April try it for a winter and you’ll be surprised.

50,000 IU is hardcore.

I went to the nurse practitioner today. She said stay on the navage and nasal spray for a max of 5 days. Then switch to navage and Flonase as long as it takes. Said she would give me antibiotics but did not think it would help. Tested neg for Covid.

I read this thread yesterday and today I feel like I have a sinus infection/cold. Keep your shit to yourself.

Lol, at least I didn’t have AIDS. What would you do then.

The hospital said Covid and the flu are going crazy. Crazy that it coincides with school starting nationwide. Oh well, let us all get it and get it over with. Exactly what we should have done with Covid to begin with…….

Dumb and debunked multiple times.

Keep it in DC.

It's called ragweed :D

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It has been 25 years since I looked into the sinus surgery and unless it has improved a billion % then I would avoid.

I talked to several that had it and not one of them said it was worth it. Most had little to no improvements and a few it was even worse after.

I suffered allergies in my nose and eyes growing up around KC. They went away when I moved to California but they came back when I moved to the Seattle at. Now I use Flonase and Refresh eye drops both of those products help a lot.

Your enemy particularly late summer and early fall.

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Would not surprise me

This thread is filled with absolutely terrible advice.

Have you considered purchasing a fake degree or passport?