Please give me your tried and tested methods re sinuses! Never felt so ill

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Woke up this morning with lots of pain in my sinuses but otherwise felt ok. Cut to this afternoon and I can't get out of bed, have fever and chills and am really struggling to swallow. Work in a school with lots of tonsillitis/ scarlet fever going round at the moment. Throat is covered in big white spots but that's not where the pain is. The pains is from my sinuses and the struggling to swallow is because the back of my nose/top of my mouth are sooo painful. Never felt so poorly and paracetamol/ibuprofen aren't doing anything at all. Anybody got any tried and tested methods to help ease the pain?

I had tonisilitis and the white spots on my throat and called 111 who prescribed antibiotics- the white spots or patches on the tonsils are characteristic of a bacterial infection. May have spread to sinuses, call 111 if you are struggling to swallow. You can become dehydrated if you can’t take in fluid.

Sounds like you need antibiotics OP. Hope you feel better soon.

Sudafed is much better than ibuprofen or paracetamol.

Netti pot to unblock nose at the very least. Its not quite sinuses but it really helps.

Sudafed.

I cant take it any more (hypertension) so I use Sterimar (or Boots own brand) saline nasal wash to continually flush out my nose & nasal passages when I have a cold, and also do this every couple of days in the shower. It can be a bit gross, but it gets the mucus out, so the dastardly viruses can't grow in the mucus.

Neil Medd nose rinses

I don't think that is your sinuses, I think it is other lymph nodes around your oropharynx. So you probably need treatment for tonsillitis

I find with sinuses, putting a warm heat bag on them helps to relieve pressure. I just lie down with one of my face. Obviously not too hot!

@JustKeepSw1mming I think you may be right actually as I don't have a blocked nose at all.