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Rhinitis or sinusitis?

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Yesterday I felt my nose was ever so slightly stuffy, like I needed to blow it but nothing really came out. Today it is much worse. My nasal passages feel like they do when you have a cold they feel swollen and sore and like there's not as much space for air to get through. I feel the need to blow my nose more but still not much comes out. It is also giving me a pressure headache at the top of my nose between my eyebrows and behind my eyes feel a bit sore too.

Do you think this sounds like rhinitis or sinusitis and either way is there anything I can do to relieve it - I'm 8+4

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Lyndsaytw79

I’d see gp, there are safe antibiotics if it is sinusitis. I’ve had pregnancy rhinitis for months (33 weeks now) and it’s just started clearing up but it’s SO annoying so I feel your pain.

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ChrisWest1983

Something is wrong with the air pressure. Yesterday’ & today I have awful sinus pain :( kind of like migraine symptoms- excruciating pain in sinuses - so sensetive to light/sound and threw up few times yetday and I’ve time today (I have not ate anything since yesterday - then this afternoon I cooked for my baby and tried if his food is ready and had a glass of water) then threw up poor milk and leaf of spinach 🤨)

Hope the weather will change so I can feel better.

When I was pregnant and had sinus problems the ladies in Boots only advised to have that salt water nasal rinse (which did nothing to me)

Good luck!x

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Lyndsaytw79 in reply to ChrisWest1983

Sounds like you had a migraine Chris

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ChrisWest1983 in reply to Lyndsaytw79

I have had lots of migraines in the past but since I got my baby 9 months ago they are always starting in my sinuses - and are lighter than before...

and nothing helps :(

Thank god today I am feeling much better 😊 and I hope That ‘Waitingfirmirracle’ is feeling better too! x

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