Flying poorly (tomorrow) ?

Hate this sh*t if your unwell don’t fly, my elderly mother was hospitalised and on oxygen for weeks after catching an illness on a flight. Selfish

Not similar at all, and I'm surprised decongestants weren't suggested by your doctor. Definitely grab some at the airport if you can get any before then.

I vomit really badly on ibuprofen so I’ve been scared to take sudofed as worry same thing would happen. I’d rather have the sinuses than be throwing up but I’m not sure if it’s similar or not??

It’s such an odd one because I’m not snotty at all and it doesn’t hurt when I bend down or lean forward etc which has always been agony in the past when I’ve had sinus issues.

Ive not had a temperature, cough, sore throat etc I’m literally just in pain between my eyebrows and nose with horrific post nasal drip (which I’ve never had before but hate).

Think very carefully about doing this. I once did exactly the same with same symptoms and was totally deaf upon landing for 24 hours, then deaf in one ear for the next 48 hours. Then I had to fly home and it started all over again 🙃

I felt I had to go as it was a vital work trip. It went well, happily - industry colleagues found it "charming" that I was ploughing on once I was only deaf in one ear... (!)

Her ‘hubby’ is a doctor! Have you not read all of her updates

So we fly first thing tomorrow on a family holiday (me, hubby and two kids <6).

A week ago I started with cold and have had horrid sinus/general cold symptoms. Went to the doctors got a steroid spray (they were thoroughly disinterested as I didn’t have a temperature) but the sinus pain was so bad I felt sick. The steroid spray did very little, I’ve been struggling all week. Doesn’t seem to be improving and awful post nasal drip (tmi sorry). I just feel rubbish but it’s been a week now usually I shake things off or they at least improve. I’ve spent today in bed covered in Vicks and felt awfully sick.

I said to hubby I didn’t think I’d manage it tomorrow. I struggle with my sinuses on planes at the best of times and it can be really painful. He looked at me like I was nuts because it’s ’just a cold’.

We have insurance but given I’m ’not that unwell’ and the doctors shrugged it off I doubt we’d be able to claim on it. Hubby thinks I’m at the end of it and will start to feel better in the next couple of days so should just push through. I do push through things quite well usually but I just feel grotty and so disappointed that it’s a week in and I’m still this rubbish!

So we fly first thing tomorrow on a family holiday (me, hubby and two kids <6).

A week ago I started with cold and have had horrid sinus/general cold symptoms. Went to the doctors got a steroid spray (they were thoroughly disinterested as I didn’t have a temperature) but the sinus pain was so bad I felt sick. The steroid spray did very little, I’ve been struggling all week. Doesn’t seem to be improving and awful post nasal drip (tmi sorry). I just feel rubbish but it’s been a week now usually I shake things off or they at least improve. I’ve spent today in bed covered in Vicks and felt awfully sick.

I said to hubby I didn’t think I’d manage it tomorrow. I struggle with my sinuses on planes at the best of times and it can be really painful. He looked at me like I was nuts because it’s ’just a cold’.

We have insurance but given I’m ’not that unwell’ and the doctors shrugged it off I doubt we’d be able to claim on it. Hubby thinks I’m at the end of it and will start to feel better in the next couple of days so should just push through. I do push through things quite well usually but I just feel grotty and so disappointed that it’s a week in and I’m still this rubbish!

Two things:

1. I’ve traveled by plane with sinusitis twice. It was actually nice up in the air, but the landing was terrible - really bad sinus pain, and then I was half-deaf in both ears for around 24h. Was it great? No. But I did it again at a later date (as said, twice) because in the grand scheme of things…

2. The pharmacist can prescribe you antibiotics for sinusitis if you’ve already tried a steroid spray and it’s not helped (at least if you are in England).

This sounds like what I’ve had. I was stuck next to a selfish woman who was sneezing, coughing and blowing her nose on a three hour flight, with no mask.

Two days into the holiday, I started feeling ill. Horrendous headache, no energy, dizziness, no appetite. I then developed blocked sinuses and blocked ears. I had to dose myself up with cold and flu medicine, although it didn’t feel like a cold.
The flight home wasn’t great as my ears were so blocked. Take off was fine but landing was really painful. I was still ill ten days after, so did a GP consultation and was prescribed antibiotics and a steroid nose spray for sinusitis. I ended up having a week off work and lost 4lbs in weight.
It’ll be three weeks on Wednesday and I still don’t feel 100%. I’m still really tired and lacking energy with minimal appetite. I think it was Covid that morphed into sinusitis. I haven’t felt so rough in a long time.
I think you’ll need antibiotics.

Think very carefully about doing this. I once did exactly the same with same symptoms and was totally deaf upon landing for 24 hours, then deaf in one ear for the next 48 hours. Then I had to fly home and it started all over again 🙃

I felt I had to go as it was a vital work trip. It went well, happily - industry colleagues found it "charming" that I was ploughing on once I was only deaf in one ear... (!)

I’m afraid ‘Hubby’ is wrong. Some People are still very ill with Covid and are isolated in hospital.

Sorry I thought you were concerned specifically because it may be Covid. I’d wear a mask regardless if I thought I was contagious with anything. Just in the plane though with the recycled air and all. I’m not phased about whether it’s covid or not

Honestly hubby says Covid isn’t a big deal anymore, no precautions are taken even in the hospitals it’s basically just another common cold/virus like all the rest. I asked if it might be Covid and his response was ‘probably there’s so many strains of it now’ I asked if I should test and he said no there’s no point. Sorry I wasn’t avoiding that question.

Nothing to do with disease progression, or an infection that was already brewing??

2 hours it’s Europe