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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:09 PM
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Any doctors in the house? PLEASE
I have serious sinus pain on the right side of my head above my ear and the pain includes my ear. Every 20 seconds or so its like a lighting bolt grabs the nerves and just squeezes.

I am on antibiotics for the sinus infection, but what the hell can I do for my head? I am about to go crazy from the constant wave of pain????
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murray hill farm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:12 PM
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1. GEEEZZZZZZZZZZZE!
Go to the closest emergency room now! No one can diagnose that kind of pain u describe on line...and yes, it could be very serious..get some help from someone who can see you and diagnose your problem.
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:13 PM
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2. I can not afford the emergency room cost
.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:15 PM
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3. They can't turn you down for cost man
Get some pain reliever from them, head pain is nothing to mess around with!
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Pepperbelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:15 PM
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4. if heat helps ...
I once had a sinus infection that hurt me soooooo bad. I got damp towels and nucked them in the microwave for 45 secs and apply until it cools off.

:shrug:
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Logiola Donating Member (379 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:16 PM
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6. bless canada.. one never has to ever think or say that. here..
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:16 PM
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7. Go...they have to treat you
It sounds dangerous.... don't wait.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:23 PM
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20. Call your doc's answering service NOW
He may be able to prescribe something to get you through the night so that you can go in first thing tomorrow morning.

There are a lot of important things living in there. You really do need to be seen.
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:15 PM
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5. This is a political forum not a medical advisary board
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:17 PM
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8. duh,
but I am desperate


I just did the micro towel thing. Thanks
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:20 PM
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13. Look, the problem is you are asking
a bunch of nondoctors for medical advise. If someone gives you some advice you try and it turns out to be really bad DU could be libel for the consequences. Not only could you get hurt but this community could be severely effected.

Go get help. Really.
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:23 PM
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19. I am in pain, I am not stupid
I know enough to realize good advice from bad and I also would not sue DU.
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:26 PM
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23. You wouldn't
But that doesn't mean that if something should go horribly wrong others wouldn't.

Trust me when I say those of us telling you to go get help mean it in the most friendly way. Its really what you should do. You say you can't afford it. But you really can't afford the alternative.
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Pepperbelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:20 PM
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14. did it help?
:shrug:

Helped me for a little while.
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:22 PM
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18. it seems to if I can keep it in the right spot
.
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murray hill farm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:17 PM
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9. Go to the emergency room now!
This is one of those times to just go...worry about the cost later.
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Pepperbelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:19 PM
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11. if someone's in pain, you should give them a break ...
when something hurts, it seems pretty damned important to the hurtee.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:19 PM
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12. Maybe he's desperate and trusts us?
I know we can't dispense med advice but sometimes it feels like family here, ya know? :)
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:22 PM
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17. Yes I know
But medicine is not something to mess around with. If he is in trouble he really needs to get real help. If we advise him and it turns out to be really bad advice then DU is libel. Law suits. Worse.

As much as we would like to help the single best advice we can give is to go get help.
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Pepperbelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:24 PM
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21. no way du would be liable ...
Edited on Mon Feb-14-05 10:25 PM by Pepperbelly
no one is pretending to be a doc. I sure as hell am not but I am a working poor person and understand totally how it is when something hurts and you can't get care. I am lucky now because my gig has incurance but shit, I have treated myself in the past with fucking animal antibiotics because I could not keep my family fed AND make it to the doctor.

Not on your case, either. Just kinda empathizing with the poster. Been there and it sucks. Big.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:18 PM
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10. If I were you, I'd go to an emergency room.
You may have to wait a while but at least they can check on you.
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GreenPoet64 Donating Member (897 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:20 PM
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15. The infection may not be responding to the antibiotics . . .
you may need to see a doctor. How long have you been taking the medication?
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:22 PM
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16. Only since this morning
it started doing this yesterday on Sunday
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GreenPoet64 Donating Member (897 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:25 PM
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22. Has it spread to your ear? Ear ache?
If so an ER doc can prescribe ear drops for the pain. It's 7:24 here on west coast. Can you call an urgent care facility? Or is it too late where you live?
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:28 PM
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27. its not in my ear that I can tell
just around the top outside.


I have a call in to my docs answering service, just waiting for a call back



it is 9:30 here and all the pharmacies are closed.
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:26 PM
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24. If the pains that bad....go to the ER
seriously.
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Moderator DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:27 PM
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26. Locking.
Please go seek medical help off the board. Even the most well intentioned medical advice given by a fellow DU poster can be potentially harmful.
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:28 PM
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28. here's a GREAT thread about sinus rinses, which saved me...


I had a horrible painful sinus infection, went on five different kinds of antibiotics over 4 months, just got sicker and sicker, more and more painful...until a sinus-nurse friend of mine told me about these sinus rinses....really helped and healed me back to health, with rinsing every time I feel a cold coming on...I have AVOIDED colds, bloody noses, etc. for more than 4 years now....


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2633681
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