name the symptoms you have been having

Roxy your symptoms sound like how I felt when I was coming down with mono. Weird back/kidney pain and all...take a look down your throat with a flashlight and if your tonsils are really swollen (is this what the swollen throat feels like?) they have the potential to get much worse. See a doctor!

Michael, did you eventually get cured? Were you also fatigued? My sister is a pharmacist and she tells me some people who thought they had chronic fatigue syndrome have in recent years found out it was sinusitis all along. What antibiotic worked for you? any other tips?

if there is a plus side to being sick for 2 months in summer, it's that I have saved so much money from not going out, I don't know how much cash I waste on booze etc but it seems a gargantuan amount as I have gone completely insane buying clothes/records (2 or 3 every day in work)/dvds/books, and am still somehow way above my usual wealth.

I think we need photos of the marbles.

sinuses blocked every day, big lines under eyes, no energy, weak every day.
it's......SINUSITIS, I think, which apparently does give you fatigue, so says my doc. anyone else ever get crazy sinusitis like this?

Ronan, yes, sinusitis generally is incredibly fatiguing. Ten years ago, I had one really terrible sinus infection (which I let go for a while because I didn't realize what it was and I don't think I even had a doctor at the time). I have had bouts with sinus infections on and off since, though none quite as bad as that initial one. I have very bad allergies to begin with, so I am reluctant to tell you about my ongoing sinus symptoms in this context, since I don't want to suggest you are going to have the same problems.

A couple home remedies:

As an extra treatment, try inhaling the steam from eucalyptus leaves. (Put a towel over your head to help funnel the steam up to your nose--just be carefull if you are doing this over a gas burner.)

Nasal irrigation. If you try that, don't do it until you aren't massively clogged up.

If you don't have any pollen allergies, Goldenseal should be helpful.

I strongly recommend not smoking anything until you feel very recovered.

Wiggy, you're right. Suggesting that Roxy cheat on the no-coffee/alcohol regimen was wrong and bad. I am a hardened hedonist. Don't listen to me.

From what I've read (and my own experience fits with this), if you get repeated sinus infections, your sinuses can get to a point where they are so damaged that it's very hard to avoid more or less constant sinus symptoms of some sort.

I've been inhaling the steam from boiling water alot, and that helps albiet briefly. I didn't use eucalyptus though, I must try that. It's so annoying, for one day last week my sinuses cleared and I felt great and then back again the day after. It's a horrible sickness.

I stopped drinking caffeine last year (because I wanted to get pregnant). Now I crave caffeine and alcohol but mainly because I know I shoudln't drink any. I think I'll have an infuse (?) with caffeine and a dash of rhum right after I delivered my baby. :-)

The list of foods I can't eat is much too long. But I heard from another woman that her gynocologist even prohibited her more foods (like salads and so on). Mine's more relaxed about it.

Ronan, I don't know about Benadryl, but you can certainly buy Zirtek here. I've been taking it for years now for insect bites and so on.

I can see why you'd have to give up caffeine and alcohol, but how on earth would sex mix up your treatment? Weird.

My grandmother drank copious amounts of alcohol throughout her pregnancy. My dad suffers the consequences. Apparently his inability to have kids (after conceiving me of course) was due to her alcohol use throughout pregnancy. :-(

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Guys, I'm having to miss motely crue cause of this tonight :(:(:(

Last night I went to see Octopus Project and had to leave -- vomited 4x on the way to my car. Luckily no one saw.

i have:

* what feels like a pinched nerve inside my ear, head, and right side of neck. sharp pain.

* pressure from within my head

* i don't feel very balanced

i feel o.k., but i can 'feel' a sickness coming on.

Spent much of last weekend pissing out of my arse.