countrygirl
28-03-09, 15:33
About 5 weeks ago I had a awful cold that resulted in being completely bunged up for 10 days with disgusting daren't blow your nose in public awful coloured gunk out of both sides of my nose. flourescent green and orange!
During this time I had sharp pains in my upper gums whenever I bend my head over but otherwise no facial pain. One day I blew my nose and one side was just cream in colour but other side was dark brown. It was the world record nose blow and obviously cleared out my sinuses:D Straight away the pain on bending head in my gums went away and no more nasty stuff from nose. My husband had same thing after me and he said it took weeks to go away completely
All was well until about 2 weeks ago when a small patch of my upper gum near the middle started to hurt all the time like it was burning and very tender - nothing on gum perfectly normal - I also keep getting a sensation of intense pressure at the side of my nose above the gum. first thing n the morning I am bunged up on that side but it clears within 10 mins and what comes down nose is nice and completely clear coloured and nose then is clear all day just this constant soreness of gum and feeling of pressure.
I saw my GP last week for something else and mentioned this to her and she said it could be sinus related but as I have no nasty stuff coming out wait and see. I also have a problem with my neck that can cause facial pain.
Some days my gum hardly hurts but then other days its awful.
I did silly thing and googled and found out that in very rare cases you can get nasty infection of bones or even brain from sinusitis:scared15:
Of course I am now worrying that I have bacterial infection marching up to my brain.
During this time I had sharp pains in my upper gums whenever I bend my head over but otherwise no facial pain. One day I blew my nose and one side was just cream in colour but other side was dark brown. It was the world record nose blow and obviously cleared out my sinuses:D Straight away the pain on bending head in my gums went away and no more nasty stuff from nose. My husband had same thing after me and he said it took weeks to go away completely
All was well until about 2 weeks ago when a small patch of my upper gum near the middle started to hurt all the time like it was burning and very tender - nothing on gum perfectly normal - I also keep getting a sensation of intense pressure at the side of my nose above the gum. first thing n the morning I am bunged up on that side but it clears within 10 mins and what comes down nose is nice and completely clear coloured and nose then is clear all day just this constant soreness of gum and feeling of pressure.
I saw my GP last week for something else and mentioned this to her and she said it could be sinus related but as I have no nasty stuff coming out wait and see. I also have a problem with my neck that can cause facial pain.
Some days my gum hardly hurts but then other days its awful.
I did silly thing and googled and found out that in very rare cases you can get nasty infection of bones or even brain from sinusitis:scared15:
Of course I am now worrying that I have bacterial infection marching up to my brain.