mega_stream

Got a real bad head cold that's blocked my sinuses, started getting ear ache in the right ear last week, now got it in the left aswell.

I can hardly hear anything but my own voice when I seak seems REALLY LOUD

Anyone suggest any good medication?, useless tryin to get a DR's appointment, tried yesterday and they were shut cause its a Wednesday afternoon [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

No need for CAPS LOCK REPLIES, I can read ok

FERRARINUTTER

Get to the Dr's for prescription eardrops.........

andrewdelvard

Sounds likely that you need to get your ears syringed. Make a Doctors app.

TurboKitty

Sounds like blocked eustachian tubes. Buy some Actifed from the pharmacy, that should help, or ask the pharmacist for advice.

FERRARINUTTER

LOL at TurboKitty, thought you would prescribe a razor and immac........

TurboKitty

Nope.

And I'm serious about the Actifed. I have a tendancy to get blocked ears on the rare occasions I get a cold. Actifed usually helps me.

TurboKitty

I'd still ask the pharmacist though - Actifed is good for ears, but there may be something better for ears and sinuses together.

image doctor

Try Spliff, its a cure for everything, aids, vd, headaches, flu etc.

brickboy

Sudafed / Actifed or similar will help the blocked tubes, to laser thru the sinues you can either:

- get some primo peruvian flake and inhale (expensive)
- fill a sink with warm (not hot) water. Immerse your face in it, mouth shut. Inhale the water gently and slowly through your nose -- when it starts running into your mouth lift your head out and spit. Repeat a couple of times. Feels horrible when you do it but it doesn't half clean the nose out

stevem2k

If your ears are genuinely blocked, Olive oil is better than most of the over the counter stuff....


Steve

TurboKitty

Actifed will help dry up the fluid that's causing the blockage.

Olive oil will work well if the blockage is something solid like wax, but in this instance I believe something like Actifed is better.

I would stress though, I am not medically qualified and the best person to ask is your pharmacist, (or a GP).

Reffro

Sudafed gets my vote, brilliant at clearing out the tubes.

mega_stream

Cheers, I got me some Sudafed this morning, taken one about 2hrs ago and it's done bugger all so far, what happens to all the congestion in my head then?

Assume it's gonna start coming out....nice...

Huxley Chick

I agree with TK - have had a few problems with ears blocking myself after colds.

Any decongestant should help, you could also try steam inhalation to try to unblock the 'tubes'.

I had a nightmare last year - ears blocked up a few days before I was going on holiday. Dr told me that if I flew I was taking the risk of a perforated ear drum Spent the whole plane journey paranoid that my ear drum would burst Fortunately it didn't

Good luck