Can't remember............duh..

[Diane12855]

Did anybody develop sinus issues that they didn't have previously while on tx? Or maybe new allergies?

My sinuses have been constantly draining for over a week. It's choking me sometimes. Yuk! But there isn't any fever to go with it, so it isn't an infection.

Diane

[babs824]

i have same sx, sound like i have a cold, hoarse, nasal. etc. never had allergies. think its meds.  had the same with breast ca chemo and found a homeopathic sinus med, small white tab u let dissolve under tongue. worked for headache and sinus drip. have not tried for this but think i might head to whole foods for a new bottle. i will let u know if it helps.

[Diane12855]

Gosh! I guess it has been a while since I walked in nature and you just don't notice those things while driving.

I've never had fall allergies in the past. Wondering if Robert is right about the IFN affecting it.

Hhhhmmmmmmm

Diane

[nygirl7]

I get fall allergies too - the mold from the leaves falling and sitting on the ground. Always had them probably always will. Everyone up here seems to be suffering from them this week.

My daughter has already been in the ER four times this past month with her lungs shutting down - it's not a good time of year for us, ever.

Don't know if it's related to anything in the south though.

[RobertBeWell]

I get fall allergies most years. It's highly variable. Some years not at all, some years they last from Oct-Dec, and other years just a few weeks.

Mine seem to change on almost a daily basis. I think they are a bit worse this year than usual, probably due to having the IFN in my system anyhow.

A benadryl and a shot of Dristan usually clears me right up. I've also had some luck with Veramyst (and other prescription nasal sprays).

Have you tried any of these? They take a couple days to work, but usually do a bang up job for me.

[Trinity4]

As an over generalization fall grasses and fall bloomers are peaking in our beloved state of South Cackalacky as well as ragweed.  Everyone I know is complaining with sinus drainage.

Trinity

[Diane12855]

I tried mixing green and black since I didn't know if it was sinus or allergy. It made me feel kind of funky for a while, but amazingly the drainage has stopped for now.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anne1717]

Yeah - she has  a tea remedy for everything. Honestly, I was never much of a drinker but anytime I felt something coming on just a wee dram of single malt would do the trick - or at least make you not care you were sick.

[Diane12855]

Now THAT wasn't fair!

No, really... thanks for the tea info.

Diane

[Anne1717]

oh - and scotch  - heh heh  KIDDING

[Anne1717]

Green for allergies
And supposedly eucalyptus, green, black for sinus
My daughter in law is into all this stuff

[Diane12855]

I had forgotten we were so close in tx. We made it past the half way point. Yahoo!

I've had the dry cough for a while... the trigger point for that is in a different place than the trigger point is from this drainage... which makes me cough twice as much now. Most of my sx come and go from day to day or hour to hour, but this just stays there. I've never had allergies, except for when I mow the grass, but there isn't any grass pollen now. I'm in SC and I can't think of anything new that is blooming now. I don't suppose the leaves changing color put off any allergens. Heck! I don't know....

I'm getting ready to try to see if some hot tea will at least melt the crud that keeps building up on my vocal cords. Does anybody know if a certain kind of tea works better than another?

Diane

[stalion]

I too have had a terrible runny nose, and constence  cough, also my eyes are swollen , I can not even put cream on it seems to make it worse. I am in week 27, I just keep telling myself, this too shall pass!

[Anne1717]

YES !!  But apparently not from treatment since I have not treated.  That is the one thing I have noticed after being diagnosed this summer is the constant stuffiness and sinus headache.  I have never had allergies.  Maybe just coincidence?  Bad year for it?  Age? Compromised or changed immune system?

Weird