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Anything you would recommend? Just fed up with several days of painful sinuses
water, honey, lemon
and a Paracetamol
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Will ask the Mrs, Sudafed is banned in Franceso she used to have to source alternatives.
why can't you take sudafed ? Lots of decongestants have similar properties
Which actual decongestant can you not take? Within the Sudafed range there are a number of different active ingredients. Pseudoephedrine works best for me whereas phenylephredrine is basically useless.
Steam is also good. Boiling water in a bowl (with Olbas oil in it) with a towel over your head.
Chop loads of chillies, heat a wok until it's blistering hot with oil, chuck in the chillies and breath in the vapour. When you come around your nose will be clear, your vision will return after a few hours.
Olbas Oil?
Thanks - it's pseudophedrine I'm not supposed to take due to HBP
Pseudoephedrine works best for me whereas phenylephredrine is basically useless.
It's not just you, I'm pretty sure phenylephredrine has been proven in studies to be no better than a placebo.
then you're a bit buggered for options - pretty much all the decongestants are sympathomimetic and [i][b]CAN[/b][/i] raise BP (even the nasal sprays/drops aren't supposed to be used unless your doc has given the nod, so nobody's likely to let you have any)it's pseudophedrine I'm not supposed to take due to HBP
I'd go with steam & painkillers
especially if you're making crystal meth 🙁phenylephredrine is basically useless
I've been addicted to nasal sprays for 23 years. I've used them absolutely constantly since then. I'm never without one on me or by bed or in the car. Nothing else works. I currently go though 2 bottles of Sudafed a week. Vicks no longer works neither does the steroid stuff the doctor prescribes. 3 operations on sinuses.
Don't be like me. Don't use them.
My bedside table now...
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Seek help
Vics vapour rub
A nice hot curry will clear your passages...
Seek help
Bit late for me, tried and failed. But I am here to warm others against them.
Saline nasal spray perhaps?
Less lethal ...
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Otrivine - unless you can "acquire" Idasal from Spain - NOTHING works as well.
Take it from someone who is missing one of their sinus sacs 😥
Google 'Neti Pot' and saline solution. Helped me out when I had bad sinus troubles.
Ask a Chemist?
No, sod that I'll just ask a load of folk who are interested in MTBing instead...
No, sod that I'll just ask a load of folk who are interested in MTBing instead...
It's never stopped anyone on here before!
I have permanent nose block due to weaken muscles inside the nose for whatever reasons. Have it for at least 25 years now. Alcohol makes it worst for me.
With my permanent nose block and when I get hay fever and cold I feel like someone is permanently suffocating me. If you have a fear of death with suffocation then that is exactly how it feels like.
I'm a doc. We rarely use or prescribe decongestants and neither do ENT surgeons. And the nasal problems from people who are stuck on them are not good... Google Rhinitis Medicamentosa.
Netipot or sterimar, sometimes beconase/other nasal steroids. Decongestants only for very rare usage before a flight or public speaking or something like that.
Chemists sell decongestants. Not always the best advice from them, and seen too many people with hypertension sold them.
Rhinitis Medicamentosa.
That's me!! 😛
My blood pressure is slightly elavated, I'm hoping that's down to my being overweight rather than my spray addiction.
Weight I can (and probably should) lose, getting off the sprays ain't happening anytime soon...
several are GSL, so any bugger can sell themChemists sell decongestants. Not always the best advice from them, and seen too many people with hypertension sold them.
I have Beconaise too for the times that the cavity gets a "little gooey"
Otrivine was trialled to me by the Surgeon after the last time they put my nose/cheekbone back where its supposed to be.
Ask Mattbee why it wasnt..........
Try leaving dairy completely out of your diet for a few weeks. Also bananas, they can encourage mucous in some people.
Netipot or sterimar, sometimes beconase/other nasal steroids. Decongestants only for very rare usage before a flight or public speaking or something like that.
Is Sterimar any more effective than flushing with salt water you've mixed up yourself?