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Last year I had several months of the same symptoms you all have had (headaches, facial pressure, dizziness, fatigue) and it caused a lot of anxiety, especially because of the dizziness and ringing in the ears. However I never had much drainage. I can feel things moving around in my sinus cavities and sometimes it makes my eyes water, like I need to sneeze but can't. Drainage is usually down the back of my throat, and I get a lot of earaches and sore throats.
My GP was unsympathetic even though he could tell antibiotics had helped my symptoms. He eventually decided I was a hypochondriac, so I went to an ENT, who spent maybe 12 seconds with me and announced I had nothing wrong, not even seasonal allergies. So frustrating!
Right when I went to the ENT in January my husband and I both got bad colds. The weird thing is that after all the nasal drainage from the cold, I felt a TON better and my sinus symptoms went away for months.
Oddly, my husband's cold turned into a sinus infection, and now he's had two sinus infections in 6 months. He's never had sinus infections before. I'm convinced there's something in this house making our normal seasonal allergies worse. We'd just moved into the house 2 months before all my problems started.
When seasonal allergies started in the spring many of my symptoms returned. I've had a lot of relief by using saline nasal rinses and air purifiers. When it gets bad I have a humidifier on in the bedroom at night, even in the summer. We use furnace/ac filters with allergen filtration and a vacuum with several filters on it. I make sure I dust and vacuum regularly and we use dust masks a lot. Our mold test came back negative but I'm still not convinced, because the previous owners hid water damage from us (and the home inspector didn't catch it) so I suspect hidden mold in the walls which we'll have to deal with eventually.
None of this has cured me but it's made things tolerable. The biggest improvement I've seen is in the dizziness, which has abated quite a bit and has made everyday life a lot more bearable.
I have been suffering from increasingly worse sinus symptoms for almost 2 years now. Worst is the pressure that seems to build at the top of my nose, and this 'fuzzy' feeling that makes my whole head/face feel inflamed.
I took some antibiotics, seemed to make things better for about a week and a half, but now I seem to be sensitive to sugar and especially beer. Get a flush feeling in my head and can't concentrate at all!
The salt water flushes, reduces inflammation in the sinus, ears, nose, promotes drainage. Wonderful!
Bad sleep can cause a person tons of problem, and for people with sinus pressure, it only helps create more headaches.
I am and how my pressure problems and dizziness may not be as prominent as some of your's, I constantly feel drained of my energy and suffer from mild headaches.
Anyone share some symptoms?
-Logan
It is so frustrating because one minute I am fine (humidity low) and an hour later I am walking like a drunk and nauseous (humidity high). Not sure if any of you have had the bad vertigo attacks but with those I never went anywhere alone, didn't drive for months and felt like a prisoner. I am so afraid of that "fear" coming back. Not sure what else to do.
Hang in there all !