#sinus headaches

[stickynotesoul]

As someone with allergies, I’m an expert on this topic!

[lizyerby]

[organichealingoils]

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[merillifesciences]

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[beenovel]

Mom and I laid down for naps like 5 hrs ago (sharing chronic illness with your mom is so fun) and I woke up still feeling awful and then I remembered I never took meds. So I've just been perishing for five hours because I forgot about ONE PILL

[prettypinkdork]

I have a migraine regime that works really well for my immediate family but I don’t always see on lists of what to do for migraines. And maybe this is because my family is also very susceptible to sinus issues.

Anywhere here’s some stuff that helps me;

-Tylenol #3 (codeine) together with ibuprofen. Codeine apparently needs a more common painkiller to really be effective, Tylenol doesn’t work on me so I take ibuprofen with it. Tylenol #3 is by prescription only in the US but I haven’t encountered too much trouble getting doctors to give it to me

-Eating. Particularly if I feel nauseous. Human bodies are weird.

-Caffeine. Don’t know why, it also boosts the effectiveness of painkillers but just on it’s own it helps too.

-Heat. Cold is commonly used for migraine relief but for me I need heat. Either a microwaved sock filled with rice or a hot shower provide instant relief

-Spicy food. My go to is a Cup Ramen with extra Half Sharp Paprika thrown in. Open up those sinuses.

-Keeping breezes off my forehead/sinuses. I have a knit hat I keep around for this purpose. Overhead fans can be a huge source of agitation but they’re often difficult to live without in the south. I often sleep with a thin shawl over my face if it’s too hot for the hat.

-Computer glasses and night mode on mobile devices. They look stupid but, wow, do yellow-tinted glasses help. Most mobile devices (and windows 10 -right click on the desktop and go to Display settings) have a night mode setting that turns the screen yellow. It’s usually under Display and Brightness.

-Lavendar, mint, eucalyptus, etc. Smells are a huge trigger for me but some herbs and essential oils are very soothing, but they have to be real not artificially engineered stuff. For example; any of the standard fragrances at Bath and Body Works will murder my head if I have a migraine but depending on the scent their Aroma Therapy line provide some relief. The Lavender Cedarwood and Eucalyptus Spearmint scents are very soothing. These items are pretty expensive but I keep a bottle of the Lavender Cedarwood body wash around just for headaches. Vitamin shops also sell something called a Migrastik that has some nice mint oils. They tell you to rub it on your face but that can be bad for your skin so I’ll just either leave the top off and hold it near my nose or put it on the back of my hands.

To clarify; the reason I like essential oils is because they open my sinuses and don’t further trigger my headache. They’re not magic cures.

Migraines do this shitty thing where if you move too much or look at light or are exposed to other triggers they get much worse but I can reset the headache by taking a long hot shower or getting something hot on my head and then laying still in the dark. Doesn’t get rid of it but the heat scales back the pain to a pre-‘me fucking around doing stuff to agitate my head’ levels.

Sometimes I have a headache so bad that I have no choice but to do everything it wants, at other times it’s mild enough that -with the right help- I can fight through it and do stuff I have to do/want to do.

[dahliavandare]

I sure do get a lot of headaches.

[conniesellecca]

Avoid headaches with fresh pineapple!

Low air pressure is the number one trigger for head-splitting sinus headaches. And that’s what happens when a storm is coming…

The fix? Eat more pineapple. It’s loaded with bromelain – an enzyme linked to reducing the sinus inflammation and mucus buildup that often cause weather-related headache pain. Researchers say we need about 500 milligrams of bromelain to counteract a storm-induced headache. Which is the amount we’d get from about 4 cups of pineapple. So, when the forecast calls for wild weather, slice up some pineapple and snack on it all day. But it has to be fresh – not canned. The canning process destroys most of those healing enzymes.

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