Question:
Home remedies for sinus headache????

Answer: I have suffered from sinus problems for years, always on the right side.

Once, I spent an entire year fighting one infection after another with antibiotics, steroid nasal inhalers, steroids, expectorants, you name it. After a year, I was sent to a specialist because my x-rays were so bad.

He sent me for an MRI, & he told me he had not seen a case this bad in his entire career. He explained that most people suffer in the 3 main sinuses, but that I had all 5 cavities completely blocked.

He said I needed surgery. This doctor was a very funny guy; he always had me laughing, no matter how bad the situation was. When I asked him how they would do the surgery, & what would they do, he said "we have to drill some holes in your head." My eyebrows went up & I asked how he would do that. He said, "oh, Black & Decker makes good drills, & we'll just put the entire drill up your nose and...." I said, "I'm outta here." He did a great job, so I can usually avoid doctors when the right side flares up. I do take Guaifenisen, but the doctor told me how to get it without a prescription. He said to take Robitussin cough medicine, the one with only one ingredient in it...Guaifenisen.

He also taught me some home tricks.

1) Buy a sinus cleanser. It's basically a soft plastic bottle with a long nozzle on it. Then you buy saline solution (not the kind for contact lenses). Both of these can be bought in most pharmacies.

Pour the saline solution into the bottle. You lean over the sink and hold your mouth open. Insert the nozzle into your nostril and squeeze the bottle firmly. It floods your sinuses & pours out of your nose & mouth into the sink.

I know this does not sound appealing at all, but it works wonders!!!

2) Buy a steam inhaler. You put your lower face over it, nose & mouth and simply breathe the hot steam directly into your sinuses.

No shower or towel over head & sink works like this does.

3) For pain, I always keep my head elevated & put hot compresses on the area that hurts.

4) I do take the expectorant Guaifenisen if the first 2 solutions don't help. However, 98% of the time, they will knock out the sinus infection.

I hope some of this was helpful to you, and I hope you feel better.