I started getting a lot of sinus infections when I moved to Idaho. These are the things that influenced my condition.
Allergies - something that grows here I'm allergic to. I'm also allergic to mold and it was in my old apartment.

Adenoids - my adenoids grew back (wtf? I had them removed many years prior) and were infected.

Deviated septum - my nose had been broken and because of the first two issues, it couldn't drain the infection (eww).

Antibiotic resistance - I had been given so many different drugs with poor results that the infection never went away, and not much worked.

Try and see if you can get a referral to an ear nose and throat doctor and/or an allergist. I'm so much better after multiple surgeries and allergy treatments. Also getting a sinus rinse kit helps so much, and they are pretty much safe for everyone, even pregnant women since it is just warm water and salt squirted up your nose.

You puked up the squirrel? Damn!

Sometimes you just get so dehydrated that you can't keep anything down. That happened to me with food poisoning once. The ER was a good call. Once your body chemistry is that out of whack, only IV rehydration and some strong antiemetics will help.

I don't know what's wrong with me. I've been waking up in the middle of the night (sometimes 2 or 3 times every night) because i've been sooo hot. Yet I turn on the fan, or change clothes and still nothing. And i'll wake up with a sore throat, and by the middle of the day it's gone.

I just feel so fatigued, and I'm so easily irritable. Ugh. And all this started when I had my period, so I though it would go away when it went away. Yet 2 weeks later it's still happening (the sickness, not the period. lol)

I have had a headache for several days. Nothing makes it go away for any extended period of time: caffeine, ibuprofen, Aleve, bananas, water, etc.

Me too. :(

Ahahahahah I nearly LOLed in class. I shouldn't read GC in class...really...

Ugh...bf got me sick. In his defense, he got me sick last time. My throat is sore and my nose is super runny. I don't want to get up early to help out at my Norwegian club, but I said I would and I know they need me. I don't want to go to bed cause I wanna talk to my boo! Life is freaking tough...

Thank you, VandalSquirrel! I had never heard of these until your post prompted some research. I recently bought a NettiPot and have used it a few times - it's wonderful! I was reluctant at first to pour water up my nose, but once I got past the initial weirdness, I've learned to really appreciate it. Thanks again for the suggestion!

Dude with a cold the lutefisk won't smell or taste so bad. I wish I was coming home at the end of the month so we could wear our Norwegian sweaters and make lefse :(

I can't do the netti pot style, but the squeeze bottle works wonders. After one of my sinus surgeries it was a lifesaver with the dissolving packing they crammed in there. I had the worst headache and by rinsing it got a huge chunk out and all the pressure was gone.

I wish people would stop coming in to work sick. Coming in and then staying two feet away from everybody is not a solution. Do NOT come in and then say "Stay back, I'm sick so I want to stay away from you" Unless you refrain from touching ANYTHING that anybody else will have to touch, you are spreading your germs. ARG! We have sick days for a reason people!!!!

Ugh, all the cashiers at the store I work at are are coming down with all sorts of nasty bugs. They don't even have to tell you they're sick, when they walk in and look like death warmed over, it's easy to tell. One of the managers ended up buying vats of hand sanitizers for the registers, and the cashiers literally bathe in it.

I don't feel well, and haven't for a while. And not sick sick, like I was about two weeks ago, just recovering from that has taken forever and I don't even do anything lately because of it. I just want to go back home to my couch and curl up and watch up cartoons until I stop feeling like ass checks stuck to a vinyl car seat on a road trip when the heater is on.

WTF ear infection!

I can feel the sinus pressure from yesterday now inflaming my left ear.

BOO

My throat is so sore, it feels like someone has their hand around it! It hurts to swallow on the left side. I tried cough drops, warm tea with honey and even vitamin C, but nothing's working! :( Any remedies?

Chloraseptic spray? It tastes NASTY but it will numb the "feels like I'm swallowing razor blades" feeling. If that doesn't work - bourbon.

Nooo I was doing so well but overdid it this week. I should have just stayed home on Tuesday. :( My ears and throat are are fire and I'm coughing a little. If I don't drastically improve by tomorrow, I'm going to the doctor's.

LOL!!! I might have to go straight for the bourbon! :D

I am STILL sick! I missed work Friday, Monday, Tuesday and today. :( I went to the doctor yesterday and they took me off Augmentin and put me on Levaquin. It scares me to be using such a strong drug but thank goodness I'm finally feeling better!

Augmentin makes me ill beyond belief, but Levaquin worked fine.

People keep coming to class sick and I'm like, "GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!" I have another week before I can relax so keep that Bubonic away from me! :mad:

I'm sick. infected sinus, clogged ears and runny nose. blah! The upside to this is I think I infected my classmates last week. I hate the bastards. I should not have gone to class, as I was coughing sneezing, hacking and everything else under the sun but I couldn't miss class. Evil I know but they deserve it.

I just woke up with a migraine so bad that I puked everywhere. The really fun projectile stuff.

My head hurts less, but the rest of my body wants to go ahead and die.

Stupid weather front coming through. :-(

Sick of school! Bwahahahahaha

you and me both:p

I'm so sorry . . . hang in there, and keep pushing fluids.

I have the worst sinus infection I've ever had. It hurts like hell and I'm pretty miserable.

I'm really sorry. I hate sinus infections.

Do you have antibiotics?

Just keep pushing the Sudafed. I also find that steam helps me clear things out in there, too.

Today's my first day on antibiotics so hopefully I'll be feeling relief soon.

I tried steam and it worked so well! In my misery, I totally forgot about that...thanks for the reminder!

Now it's my turn for sinus fun. And by fun I mean torture.

This virus has moved down from my head into my chest. You know you're sick when what you're blowing out and what you're coughing up are both a color that doesn't occur in nature.

And to top it I have laryngitis.

All this fun comes when I'm traveling for work and covering 12-hour night shifts.

I just want to go home and sleep.

</whine>

I already posted in the what you want to say thread but I have the stomach flu and feel like death warmed over, then cooled down and has started to scale and scab up.

I am sick of being sick! i came down last sunday with what i thought was a bad cold from one of my students. What i came down with was "pink eye" from one of my students who is asutisitc and wiped all his crud on me one day.....which turned into from yet another trip to the urgent care ....ready for this...walking pnueomia. My chest feels like every muscle and bone are crushed i cannot cough this stuff out. The antibiotics i have recived from the ER/Urgent Care finally started to kick in yesterday.

Oh wow, okay, you need bed rest! I've had this twice. Please allow yourself rest and be patient with yourself because it will take a while for your strength to fully return.

I hope you get better soon, that is horrible to have to deal with.

We know already...

Ugh. Worst headache. I took two Excedrin Migraine, which are usually my magic bullet, but it didn't even touch this headache.

Now I can't go to sleep because my head hurts too much. Apparently that's God's way of saying "Please stay up all night posting on GC."

I was just looking for this thread! Thanks HotDamn.

I have been sick since monday and every time I return to the house it gets worse. My throat is clogged, my lungs burn and ache, my head feels like an over filled balloon and my coughs sound like a seal and a goose combined.

Yet, I can't slow down. Ugh.

No problem, WCsweet!

That headache is so bad I couldn't sleep until almost 2 am and then it woke me up before 5 am. More Excedrin Migraine down the hatch, but I can't imagine it being any more effective now than it was when this bad boy started.

Me = cranky.

I've spent the last 4 days in bed with the WORST flu. Sinus pressure that keeps me awake. Fever that has me breaking cold sweats, shivering, and mucus that is a very unsavory color. Sore throat and a cough too.

Its on its way though, thank the lord. Still mucusy and congested. And now my nose is all crusty.

gah! Headache AGAIN! or maybe "still". I'm going to run out of Excedrin Migraine at this rate.

I was feeling fine yesterday, Today I woke up with a headache and sore throat....I now have a fever, cough, nausea, dizziness, and I can't stop sneezing!

My sinuses are puffed up and the left side of my head is sore which means my lymphnones are swollen again, which means I have to go to the doctor again! grrr....I had to call in tomorrow, there is no way I can teach like this...I just hate doing it!

At least you know you'll get plenty of sleep! And you can watch What Not To Wear on the couch all day and not feel guilty because you're sick.