Blocked nose

[Panda1234]

Hi - I'm desperatefor some advice. I'm 33 weeks and for the past 3 nights I've had a really blocked nose. It seems to be bloody mucus that's bunging it up (sorry if tmi!).

It makes me snore and have a crap sleep, and it's also waking up my DH too. He ended up going and using the PC in the middle of the night to get away from me!

I've tried nasal spray with saline solution and olbas oil and neither of them work. Is there anything else I can try? I know I can get DH earplugs but that's still going to leave me waking up.

As someone who has literally had cold after cold this year, and now at 26 weeks a sinus infection, I've tried everything!! Here are my tips

1. saline spray - pants, didn't touch it
2. inhalation with hot water with karvol oil, olbas or a spoon of vicks, do this for half hour before bed then blow your nose lots before hand! I hate doing this but it does work.
3. sucking a halls sweet - the really strong black wrapper ones help clear sinuses
4. buy those breath easy strips from the chemist for snoring, helps a lot
5. add an extra pillow and sleep more upright
6. put a drop of olbas oil on tissue inside your pillow case.

And finally - send DH to sleep elsewhere!!!!

I am getting rather bored of being ill now!

I've had this from about 12 weeks - the 2 things that I found really helped were a humidifier with olbas oil by the bed and whilst it's pretty grot, nothing beats irrigating the nose with a Neti pot.

It's pretty revolting but very easy and the amount of snot and rubbish you blow out of your nose is amazing - you wouldn't imagine one little nose could hold so much! It left me feeling totally clear for a good few hours and certainly helped with sleeping.

If it is really bad then your GP might be able to prescribe you something called Nasonex. I used to use that for my rhinitus and when it kicked off again in pregnancy my GP was happy to prescribe me it again. It is topical so there is no risk to the baby (as far as I am aware, and I assume if two different GPs were happy to give me it then its fine!)

Thanks all. I will get my DH to go to the chemist. If nothing over the counter works and it hasn't cleared up by Monday, I'll speak to my GP.

Debs - thanks, and where do you get Neti pots? I've had a look on the Boots website but nothing comes up.

I'm 33 weeks too and I'm having exact same problem.. Tmi but massive boogers and snot and blood it's driving me mad
I've never snored in my life but keep waking myself up it's driving me mad.. Maybe it's not uncommon
Seems to be better if I sleep on my left side !!

Hi Panda

Amazon sells them, loads on there - get one that comes with the saline powder stuff. I don't honestly know what the solution does but I know kids nasal sprays are saline, so guessing its important.