sinus pain?

[bettybeetroot]

I have just returned from a week away (an hour flight to paris) I have had an awful heaDache since the flight out there. I was fine on the flight until we started the descent and I got one of the worse pains ever behind my eye and around my eyebrow to the bridge of my nose. I thought my eyeball was going to explode! I thought it must be sinus pain. I saw a doctor out there who said it wasn't the sinuses as my forehead didn't hurt and he said it was a headache so gave me painkillers. Anyway, I wondered if anything similar had happend to anyone else? Shall I wait and see if the headache go's away or see my doctor? Is there treatment for sinus problems? Thanks

I have never experienced this but as it has happened following a flight I would go and see the doctor just to be safe (I have only ever been on 4 flights myself) as I am very cautious about things like this, are the painkillers shifting it? If not deffinatly see the doctor

hi; i had the exact same thing in october 06 when i flew back from moscow - coming back into land i was in agony. i had a cold when i got out there and am prone to sinus congestion / pain (one previous op to correct deviated septum and drain sinuses). but i'd never had pain on flying. this pain was as you describe. there are separate sinuses where you describe, it doesn't have to be in forehead. my pain was in the ethmoid sinuses, as later shown up on a ct scan. i needed another op in feb 07 having suffered on since the moscow trip. the sinuses had got v congested and infected.

get a referral from your gp to an ent specialist. i also had a concha bullosa which is like an air bubble in the middle turbinate; perhaps you have something similar; good luck :-)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethmoid_sinus

sounds obvious but have you tried the steaming type solutions / saline liquid up your nose to try and get some relief in meantime?

Thanks for those replies. I did see my gp yesterday as the painkillers were only taking the edge off and I still felt awful. So the gp gave me codiene (sp?) and said it sounds like the sinuses. He said it should calm down eventually. I'll see how it go's and maybe go back with the info you have given me dearbeatrice! Thanks again!

Did the codiene work?

it could be a sinus infection, in which case you'd need antibiotics to clear it.