Severe sinus pain around eye

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Hi all just after some advice.
I'm currently on day 4 of antibiotics for sinusitis. When I started the antibiotics the only thing really bothering me was pressure in all the sinus areas but It was bareable and I tried to ignore it.
Now however I am in the most excruciating pain I keep bursting into tears.
Around 8pm fri night I had a rapid onset of very bad pain around my left eye which I thought was a migraine coming (currently on propanolol for migraine prevention which has been working well but this is usually how my migraines start)
I struggled to sleep as the pain was so intense, fastfoward yesterday morning I ended up taking myself up a&e because it was just excruciating I could not take it anymore, I've got dark red on the whites of my eyes, left worse than the other.
Doctor up hospital said not concerned and just to keep taking antibiotics and pain relief which clearly I'm doing but nothings touching the pain. I woke up no end of times last night the pain is still there just the left side my whole eye and eyebrow area. I had a minor nose bleed early hours of the morning and now all I'm blowing out is blood.
I'm just so miserable. My whole head hurts now I'm just so fed up. Do I go back to hospital or ar3 they likely to just say the same thing as last time? And has anyone experienced this and managed to find some relief? I'm extremely desperate

Hi, yes I’ve been struggling with left temple stabbing pains for what feels like months, although they’ve been on and off - sometimes only a couple a week, sometimes all day. Dragged myself to my GP who packed me immediately off to a&e on a big dose of steroids convinced I had temporal arteritis (the hospital ran the tests and determined they thought it was my sinuses).
I DID find the steroids got rid of the headache and I felt fab for a week but they’re back now. Prior to that I had started myself on a nasal steroid spray, theorising it was my sinuses despite a lack of cold symptoms and I definitely found that helped. I also had been steaming with peppermint oil and doing a salt spray twice daily.
Hope that helps!

I am also on propranalol for migraine prevention, yet every so often I still get one. Do you have any sumatriptan in the house that you could take, with a couple of paracetamol? If not, try this for a migraine.

Get some ice in a plastic bag (so it doesn't melt everywhere) and wrap it in a tea towel. Lie on the sofa or bed with this ice pack under the back of your neck. With me, it takes about 15 to 20 minutes for the pain to go. I've absolutely no idea how it works but it does.

It definitely sounds more like sinus problems than a migraine though. Can you use a sinus spray as well as your antibiotics? I've also heard people talk about salt water to wash out your sinuses, but I'm too much of a feardie to try that myself. Might be worth looking online for more info though.

OP sorry to hear you're in such unrelenting pain, clearly very distressing for you. Now you've had a nose bleed too. I'd say that could be a game changer worth checking out, even with 111 initially to see what they advise. You can explain the symptom history like you have in your post and tell them how worried you are, see what they advise.

I use Otravine nasal spray when I get sinus pain, it's the only thing that takes some of the pressure away.

I would return to the hospital.

I would also go and see an independent local optician and get that person to check your eyes properly. Eye infections can and do cause great pain. MBD is a common cause of severe and sudden onset eye pain (I used a hot compress to relieve pain on the eyes after being diagnosed with this by an optician).

Sounds very similar to the type of headache I get, after a year of investigation and different drugs I found relief from a higher dose of amitriptylene and was diagnosed with chronic daily migraine.

I would suggest returning to your GP and ask for advice.

Also try steaming - use Albas oil as this relieves the sinus inflammation.

Good luck op