Pregnancy rhinitis

[Irishwifey]

Hey girls I am 7 weeks and am SMOTHERED with congested nose. It feels like it's swollen and I can't sleep AT ALL cos I just can't breathe 😭 I am losing my mind.

I phoned my doc and she said she couldn't give me anything and basically told me to grin and bear it but I am miserable 😭

I have a humidifier in the room, I have the breathe right strips, a saline nasal spray and I use a facial steamer and none of it helps. I was going to diffuse peppermint but google says it's not safe 😢

Does anyone have any recommendations for anything over the counter that's Pregnancy safe and effective cos I don't know how much longer I can stay suffocating 😭

You can use a steroid nasal spray, my gp told me to, she said which seemed obvious then that if a patient is pregnant with asthma they would still use their steroid inhaler, people stay on low dose steroids for life infrequent use of a steroid spray won't do any harm. Other than that I just had to manage the pain with paracetamol, and the discomfort with saline spray, and just wait for it to stop 😩

I had it severely in both pregnancies and needed antibiotics.

Thank you girls I'm going crazy here. I asked about steroid spray and she said she wasn't comfortable prescribing it to me when pregnant she said come
Back in a week if I'm still miserable basically.

Did you find you got a lot of relief from the steroid spray?

Enough relief, it wasn't amazing like but a bit of an improvement.

Just wanted to send my sympathies op - had this in both pregnancies and it was miserable. I can see you are using the breathe right strips already and that was my best tip. Good luck, it’s miserable.

Thank you girls. It feels crazy to
Have this at only 7 weeks I genuinely am losing my mind and it's only been a day. I am hoping among hope that it's a cold or something vital but I have a feeling my I'm in it for the long haul which actually makes me feel panicky!! 😭

You probably do have a cold too given the amount of bugs flying around! mine was uncontrollable with a cold and, of course, you can’t really take anything!

I hope it is a cold as well because then it will likely ease off a bit in a week or so.

it’s awful though!

Update, I just tested positive for covid 😭 hope baba will be ok 😭