My face hissed at me
I've been fighting the same cold off and on for a month now. It's cost me two sick days at work already. This Saturday, I woke up in the morning feeling much better. I could almost breathe normally! So Kim and I popped up and started running some errands. We were driving around when suddenly my face started to hurt. Now, I've experience sinus headaches before, but this was different. It started with about 1/4th of my teeth going numb then spread into pain from just over my right eye down to my teeth. It hurt quite a bit and was so unsual that we cut our errands short, picked up some Advil and Sudafed from the nearest drugstore, and went home. I tried laying down for an hour to see if I could sleep it off. Things got worse rather than better so by 1:40 we were in a doctor's office. The doctor looked at me for about 30 seconds before declaring that I had a sinus infection which based on my described medical history might not have been cleared up last year! The doc gave me a perscription for a strong decongestant and some antibiotics and sent me home.
My face still hurt pretty badly (going on several hours now) so Kim dropped me off at home and ran over to the local CVS. The oddest thing happened when I went inside. I was trying to wrangle our three dogs, who were happily jumping up on me. Suddenly there was this loud sounding hissing noise. I started to look around to find the source of the noise when I realized it was coming from my face! After what seemed like 10 seconds of this hissing/whistling noise, my nose started to run and all the pain went away. All of the pressure was gone and I instantly felt better.
Now I am going to schedule an appointment with my normal doctor and see if I can't work with them to figure out why I keep getting sinus infections that knock me out for so long.