Can’t cope no more

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So I tested positive Monday I felt ok up till yesterday and today is horrific I can’t even concentrate. Im so bunged up it’s flared my sinuses up. Im in agony I suffer with acute sinusitis and this times definitely the worse one yet! Has anyone else had a sinus flare up with Covid? What do you find helped ?
I am a single mother to young children I can’t even look after myself at the moment (luckily my friend is helping) I’m so scared I’m going to deteriorate my anxiety is all over the place too someone please reassure me

Hang in there OP.

It’s horrible, I had it mild and I hated it so I can only imagine how nasty it must be for you. I found drinking plenty of water and just resting in bed helped a huge deal. I took paracetamol on the days when I felt roughest. Hopefully others who experienced similar sinus issues to you will come along and give you some advice.

You’ll be on the mend soon though 💐

Sounds pretty normal OP. No need to panic anymore than any other nasty virus 🤷🏼‍♀️

I had horrific sinus pain with covid. It was so bad! But lots of friends had the same so I knew to expect it, seems very common. It will go. I steamed my sinuses, used salt nasal spray & my pharmacist suggested a steroid nasal spray that you use for hey fever. That really helped! I also took paracetamol & nurofen very regularly & drank loads of coffee 😂 I’m not a single parent but my DH was working away the week I had it 🤦🏼‍♀️ It was tough but you battle through these things as a parent right? We’ve just all had a nasty stomach bug here & good god, that’s been a tough few parenting days. Worse than covid 😭😩

It took me 3 weeks to fully recover from covid. All good now bar I still can’t smell 😩

How would you usually manage sinusitis? Treat the symptoms as you would with any other occurrence.

Yep regular chronic sinus issues for me too. So when I got it it was horrendous pain and wanted to rip my face off 🙁 Menthol crystals for steaming and boots own sinus decongestants and paracetamol. Hope it settles soon X

I spent the full 10 days feeling like I'd been punched in the face, my nose has never hurt like that. I used lemsip max and night nurse which helped a little but not much. I'm now a week on from the end of my isolation and although my nose doesn't hurt I'm completely bunged up but still struggle to blow anything out (sorry TMI)! I suffer with alergic rhinitis and have had sinusitis many years ago but it was bad enough I spent over a week in bed as it affected my balance and I kept vomiting. Anyway, I'm wondering if the virus affected my nose more as this is my "weak" area? I had no cough.

Get some Beconase spray for your nose, I had that awful virus that wasn't Covid & the spray worked wonders. Like op have said use Nightnurse at night & the spray, take Ibuprofen if you can as well. You can get the spray on Amazon if you haven't anyone to fetch one.