flappergirl
23-03-20, 18:13
Hi,
I have been trying really hard during this Coronavirus panic to stay calm and rational but I have lost it a bit today!
At the weekend I had a throat tickle and stuffy nose and I thought it was hay fever so I squirted some beconase nasal steroid spray up my nose and took antihistamine. Today my nose was running and so I took antihistamine. I didn’t take the nasal inhaler the second time because after I’d used it on Saturday, I noticed that it said discard after 3 months! I likely opened it this time last year, but I didn’t worry much Saturday as I thought that it wouldn’t cause a problem. Is the medicine likely to be dangerous as it is past use by guideline? Or just less potent as a medicine?
So now I am worried my runny nose and cold like symptoms are either
A) brain eating bug caused by inhaling old nasal spray
B) Coronavirus
I am trying to reassure myself that A) lives in water not medicine and so that is unlikely, so it’s probably hay fever/a cold or at the very worst B). I am a teacher in the UK so I have had to go to work today and I know that some people have been self isolating as a precaution.
I don’t want A or B but am obsessing about both but mostly A! I have a funny watery metallic taste in my mouth and my nose and ears feel blocked which I am fretting about being a symptom of A) but I have had these symptoms with a cold before.
I know that I shouldn’t seek reassurance but someone please tell me that this is nothing serious!
I have been trying really hard during this Coronavirus panic to stay calm and rational but I have lost it a bit today!
At the weekend I had a throat tickle and stuffy nose and I thought it was hay fever so I squirted some beconase nasal steroid spray up my nose and took antihistamine. Today my nose was running and so I took antihistamine. I didn’t take the nasal inhaler the second time because after I’d used it on Saturday, I noticed that it said discard after 3 months! I likely opened it this time last year, but I didn’t worry much Saturday as I thought that it wouldn’t cause a problem. Is the medicine likely to be dangerous as it is past use by guideline? Or just less potent as a medicine?
So now I am worried my runny nose and cold like symptoms are either
A) brain eating bug caused by inhaling old nasal spray
B) Coronavirus
I am trying to reassure myself that A) lives in water not medicine and so that is unlikely, so it’s probably hay fever/a cold or at the very worst B). I am a teacher in the UK so I have had to go to work today and I know that some people have been self isolating as a precaution.
I don’t want A or B but am obsessing about both but mostly A! I have a funny watery metallic taste in my mouth and my nose and ears feel blocked which I am fretting about being a symptom of A) but I have had these symptoms with a cold before.
I know that I shouldn’t seek reassurance but someone please tell me that this is nothing serious!