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[honeybun]

My daughter is having sinus troubles and I wondered if anyone could help through personal experience.
This started at the beginning of the summer and it's a bit odd really. She says the only way to describe the feeling is as if she has popping candy in one sinus. She is not stuffed up nor has she a runny nose. It's very very painful and only happens at night.
We thought of allergy but we cannot pin down what it might be because it happens here, at her boyfriends house, it's started in her car and at uni. The pain comes at night after the crackling begins.
We have tried antihistamines with no success. This morning I got her Beconase Nasal Spray. Next step is the GP.

Any thoughts ladies.


Honeybun
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[CLKD]

Could it be from the ear building up tension then letting go in one nostril?  Eustacian tube?

[CLKD]

Sinus pain is awful, like being hung over without a cause.  I couldn't move my head without stabbing pains and as for bending down, even getting out of bed caused unbearable pain.  It turned out that my office colleague and I were re-infecting each other, we went to the same GP for advice and he gave us treatment - problem solved.  After 3-4 months of repeated infections 1 after the other alternatively.

[honeybun]

I would agree about the ABs if it was all the time.....but its not. It's maybe once a month...lasts for one night and then goes. That one night is misery, but then gone, which makes me think it's not an infection because if it was it would be constant surely.


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[honeybun]

She is on a no bleed pill so hormones not an issue.......well I don't think so anyway.

It's just so random. I would have said its the kittens her and her boyfriend now have but it started before. She is sneezy though....mainly in the shower. That kind of reaction comes and goes quickly but when the sinus thing strikes she is in such pain.
We will try the nasal spray and if that doesn't work then she will need to go to the GP.


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[honeybun]

Mmm, she had quite a lot of dental work done over the summer including a crown on a back tooth. Apart from that her teeth seem to be ok, well she has never said anything different.
I will keep that in mind.

Thanks ladies, these thoughts are useful.


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[CLKD]

If she sneezes in the shower  - how often is the shower head cleaned, I mean really deep cleaned?  There is a disease  which can be caught from shower heads particularly in hotels, of course the name escapes me 

As for being related to dental treatment, before my period began my Wisdom teeth would ache so badly I couldn't eat.  This continued for 2 and a bit years following removal - so much so that DH would sieve food for me for 5-6 days prior to a bleed.

[honeybun]

Legionaries is what you are thinking of CLKD.
Yes I clean the shower head regularly, but she does this everywhere and has done for years and in different houses.
She was always the sneezy one.


Don't think it would be that.


Honeybun
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[CLKD]

>wave< …… dental work then?

[honeybun]

I really don't think so. Her last check up was only six weeks ago and this has been going on since about May.


Honeybun
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Back to possible hormonal trigger.  No one believed me re associated periods and Wisdom teeth/socket pain, it would have made a good Thesis for someone