Eyes to sinuses

[SneezeBunny]

Last Friday I woke up with my eyes stuck shut with infected stuff. I immediately went to the chemist & bought some antibiotic eye drops. Five days course, two hourly, to be kept in the fridge at all times, not easy but conjunctivitis is very contagious & ugly so I was not going to go out much anyway. I noticed that the eye drops were making me sneeze but I thought "I suppose it must just be the drops running down my tear ducts & irritating my nose". No such luck! My eyes have cleared up nicely but the drops have carried the infection into my sinuses. I have a mild fever & I'm now so congested I can hardly breathe through my nose & I have a constant supply of the thickest, greenest snot you can imagine. I'm not sleeping well & I am waking up with a sore throat & a massive build up of mucus which is causing me to be blowing my nose every ten to fifteen minutes & coughing up phlem for the first half of the day by which time I'm exhausted & going back to sleep, causing more snot to build up & starting the snotty hanky cycle to begin again. I'm glad I have hankies because the mucus is so thick & heavy that when I've been caught out with only a tissue it has not been able to cope with the volume. My nose is getting red & sore too but not as bad as it would have been with nasty hard tissues. I can get some air through my nose right now, enough to give it some really satisfying, productive blows but I'm really tired again & I know if I go to sleep I will go through the whole mucus build up cycle again. I think it must be one last big blow into this soiled hanky before I'm forced to fall asleep. Thankfully the washing machine will give me a supply of clean hankies for tomorrow.

[SneezeBunny]

Thanks for the get well sentiments. I have some lovely, soothing Lush Ultrabalm for my nose which is helping.

Like you, I'm British so I can spell hanky, hankies & many other English words properly.

[CHOCOLATE <3]

Thanks for the get well sentiments. I have some lovely, soothing Lush Ultrabalm for my nose which is helping.

Like you, I'm British so I can spell hanky, hankies & many other English words properly.

I'm American, and I've never spelled "Hanky" with an Ie, unless it's plural. Some people are just horrible spellers.

I hope you feel better soon, that sounds like it sucks

[cjblo]

Just from a medical perspective: I don't think antibiotic drops will spread an infection (at least not a bacterial one). It might be an infection that just spreads, most viruses do (a cold can start with throat ache and take it from there...). Anyway: get wel soon!

[SneezeBunny]

I'm so snotty now the post nasal drip is like sticking fingers down my throat & is making me vomit. I really hate that.

[Guest]

poor you ... hope you have plenty of soft hankies reday for use

[SneezeBunny]

I am feeling considerably better in myself today thanks. I've been out in the cold wintery air for some exercise which of course made my nose run copiously. I came home & spent a very productive hour or so in the best steamy bath I could muster with a pile of freshly laundered & ironed smooth, soft vintage ladies handkerchiefs. Currently, I'm cuddled up on the sofa wrapped in the quilt from my bed. My boyfriend just came in & straight away, pushed his finger onto the sinus under my right eye. Then he said "Poor you" as I squeaked & had to snort & spit out huge lumps of nasty snot before it made me sick. I'm sure I'm getting better but I will definitely have to continue steam inhalations for a while to help clear the infection.

[SneezeBunny]

Today there is deafness & a tiring, chest rattling cough which has made my rito ache has crept up on me. Hopefully these symptoms won't linger. I hate that feeling of isolation, vulnerability & not knowing if you're being too loud that accompanies the deafness. Hankies are still my best friends & I'm trying & failing to ensure my pockets contain a clean one. My boyfriend nags me that he would much rather I blow my nose all the time than let the snot run down my throat to develop into the cough. I get shy & turned on having to keep blowing my nose in public. I also had a sneezing fit yesterday that left one ear clear & he said "You'd best keep sneezing then." What a stimulus that was to my internal fetishist.

[blowhonkblow]

So sorry youre feeling so poorly...but thanks for sharing. You sound like you've been blowing so much. Can you describe how chapped and red your poor horn is? Also...are you a honker when you blow?

BHB

[SneezeBunny]

I have been doing my best to protect my poor, hard done by, nose with soft cotton hankies & soothing balm. Despite my efforts it is showing signs of wear. This winter I have suffered five colds & my nose has not had time to recover between them. Therefore, it is now more than obvious that I have quite a bad cold. It almost goes without saying that my nose is rather red. The chapping is so bad that there is a scab outside on the left alar sidewall & just inside, my nostril sill has lots of tiny cracks which sting when they get wet & reopen each time I gingerly stick my hanky covered finger up my nose to dry it after the frequent blows. The blows are very wet & productive of thick, heavy, bright yellowy green mucus. They are going on for a long time as I am finding it hard to stop blowing once I've started; the snot just keeps coming. If I remove the hanky from my face too soon I'm left with strings of it which I can feel pulling right back in my sinuses so I have to keep on blowing loudly, sometimes for several minutes, until the whole big bogey comes out with an audible slop.

I hope this is the kind of description you were looking for Centurion.