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Sinus problem can anyone explain what has happened?
I am a college student with no medical insurance. I had a cold for a while and it was mostly gone all that was left was a stuffy nose. One night I didn't have any tissues so I just covered my nose lightly and inhaled hard through my nose to suck all the mucus into my throat to spit it out. Disgusting I know but it works. When I did this I felt a heavy pressure on the upper part of my left nostril then an excruciating pain that felt like my brain was hurting so badly my vision went blurry for around twenty seconds. Now the sinus pressure is always there and sometimes when I lay down I feel it move almost like when your pressure in you ears change in a airplane. Also have what I assume to be sinus headaches that come and go. My roommate says it is just a sinus infection but do they start hurting abruptly? Cause all this happened instantly after I cleared my nose. After this happened I was feeling my nose and I noticed the side that has the pressure feels like there is a small crack on the upper part of the nose where it is bone instead of cartilage. The other side does not seem to have this.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The short and sweet answer is you have an 'impacted' sinus infection. It hurts just like an impacted wisdom tooth, because there is no way for the pressure to escape. I've done the same thing, and the pain is pretty intense. The best thing to do - and this comes from my Ear Nose & Throat doctor by the way, is to rinse out your sinuses with salt water. The recipe require plain old table salt and a pinch of baking powder (to neutralize the pH, but not critical) dissolved in warm but not hot water. There are two ways to get it into your sinus cavities; you can use a little rubber bulb designed for cleaning babies noses or just mix the salt solution in a broad enough bowl so you can stick your nose in it and suck it in. Obviously you want to do this over a sink, holding one nostril closed and 'inhaling" the water thru the other, then switch, even if only one side is impacted. The water will drain into the back of your throat and then your mouth so you can spit it out.
If you can't get salt right away, just take a warm shower and cup the water in your hand and suck that in one nostril at a time; if your water has a lot of chlorine that will do almost as good as salt, although it stings whereas salt doesn't. You should get some relief right away but do this three or four times a day for several days and you stand a good chance of clearing up the infection.
One tip - keep a tissue handy afterwards, because sometimes your nose may suddenly drip a little salt water, even after 5 or 10 minutes. Hope this works for you as well as it has for me.
