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Face Pain
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I have had a cold and bad cough for 10 days been treating it with sugar free cough syrup and paracetamol, as of yesterday morning the cough was getting better and nasal discharge was green.
Then last night I started shivering uncontrollably and my face hurts on the left from above my eye down my nose and cheek. Went to bed and slept like the dead.
Woke up this morning still sore and shivering!
I have paracetamol, cold and flu and co-codamol 30/500mg.
Do I just spend the day in bed with fluids? What medication should I take?
Thanks
Then last night I started shivering uncontrollably and my face hurts on the left from above my eye down my nose and cheek. Went to bed and slept like the dead.
Woke up this morning still sore and shivering!
I have paracetamol, cold and flu and co-codamol 30/500mg.
Do I just spend the day in bed with fluids? What medication should I take?
Thanks
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Rockrose, I have no quals at all but what you describe here sounds like sinusitis imo.
Hopefully, Sqad or other soul will be able to help you. Feel better soonest.
https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/ears-nose-and-throat/sinusitis
Hopefully, Sqad or other soul will be able to help you. Feel better soonest.
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I agree that you have sinusitis which is causing your facial pain.
Continue on the regime of analgesics that you mentioned and of you have a decongestant nasal spray e.g Vick or Sinex, then use this in your left nostril.
Monitor the situation for 48 hours and if there is no improvement then you might need antibiotics........but not at the moment.
Continue on the regime of analgesics that you mentioned and of you have a decongestant nasal spray e.g Vick or Sinex, then use this in your left nostril.
Monitor the situation for 48 hours and if there is no improvement then you might need antibiotics........but not at the moment.
I'm a strong believer in , do you have any Olbas Oil or Vick .
Put some in a bowl of hot water and drape a towel over your head as you breath in the vapor. Keep the vapor directed toward your face, take a break, do it again and keep doing it for 10 minutes. Repeat on and off during the day and before bed. Dot some Olbas Oil on your pillow, or Vick on the chest, it will all help to relax the sinuses.
Put some in a bowl of hot water and drape a towel over your head as you breath in the vapor. Keep the vapor directed toward your face, take a break, do it again and keep doing it for 10 minutes. Repeat on and off during the day and before bed. Dot some Olbas Oil on your pillow, or Vick on the chest, it will all help to relax the sinuses.
I always have a regular steam when I get a cold because most times I end up with painful sinuses. I take anti inflammatorys and use a facial steamer (sometimes put a drop of olbas oil in) for at least 10 mins 3-4 times a day. Also a lie down with a hot flannel/eyemask over the painful areas followed by as firm a massage of the sinus areas as you can bear. It helps me