Hallelujah! I Have a Nosebleed!

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• shadowcat

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  4 years ago

  If your nose bleeds are frequent, I recommend Arm & Hammer "Simply Saline" nasal mist. I use it once a day.
• twentyfive

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  4 years ago

  A few weeks ago I had a similar set of symptoms I went to a quick med and was pleasantly surprised to find out that a fifteen minute test was available I took it and am pleased to say my results showed that I was negative Getting tested should be easy and available to everyone not just folks with Medicare coverage from my provider.
• Eve

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  4 years ago

  Does this mean you're not DTP? :c
• twentyfive

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  4 years ago

  ^hell no baby 😛
• nicespice

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  4 years ago

  LOL so the reverend is diagnosed as a pervert. 😛 [view link]
• JerseyJack

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  4 years ago

  Rev - my hay fever was off the charts this spring, and then I tried using a neti pot with a saline rinse. Life changer! I started off doing it twice every day for about a week, and have dropped back to once a day 2-3 times a week for routine maintenance. I can't remember the last time my sinuses were this open and clear!
• reverendhornibastard

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  4 years ago

  @JerseyJack, Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll give it a try. Sounds gross but it can’t be any worse than what I go through every spring and fall.
• BabyDoc

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  4 years ago

  @reverendhornibastard Have you considered relocating to the Tropics? I've heard it makes you twenty years younger and is sure to cure whatever ails you. In fact I think I was just reading an article on that in the New England Journal of Medicine and you know that if they print it then it is absolutely true, well unless it isn't. lol
• reverendhornibastard

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  4 years ago

  @BabyDoc, I lived in the tropics for many years (about 16 years). I lived in tropical SE Asia and in tropical parts of Africa. I also lived pretty far north (in London). Whenever I was away from my native stomping grounds (Texas), I never had hay fever problems and my sinuses were fine, even though some of the places I lived or traveled to had horrendous air pollution. I could spend 3 weeks in Beijing breathing some of the filthiest air on the planet and be fine, but after landing in Houston after a nonstop flight from Beijing, my sinuses would start complaining before I had finished the 45-minute drive from Houston’s north airport to my home in Montgomery County.
• Papi_Chulo

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  4 years ago

  b/w 2015 & 2017 I had some severe nosebleeds where I ended up in the hospital at least 3-times if I remember correctly - it wasn't allergy-related and it was a torrent of blood that would not stop (more of a hemorrhage) – at least once or twice I lost consciousness waiting in the emergency room (after someone drove me there or I drove myself) – I had to get my nose plugged for a couple of days – post these nosebleeds my hemoglobin would significantly go down from my avg of 15 I think to the 8’s or 9's if I remember correctly (it's been a while) b/c of all the blood I lost – they never found the source of it – some docs thought it was due to my high BP but that seemed like just a guess – fortunately I haven’t had any more episodes. My case was more unique that the avg nosebleed most people get that often stops after a few minutes – mine would not stop and would increase to the point I would lose consciousness if I didn’t get help. Anyway – more of an FYI based on my particular experience w/ nosebleeds and that one needs to be careful if they don’t stop.
• reverendhornibastard

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  4 years ago

  @Papi, Wow! I’ve heard of nosebleeds like you describe and knew one person (one of my teachers when I was in junior high school) who suffered such nosebleeds. Mine are nothing at all like that. Mine are minor and very brief (more like just the release of bloody mucous from an infected sinus). I hope you never have another one like you describe.
• reverendhornibastard

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  4 years ago

  I realize I’m the one who brought up the subject of nosebleeds, but can we now get back to discussing gorgeous, naked young women whose real names we don’t even know performing emergency desploogination procedures for us in the dark corners of seedy bars?
• IceyLoco

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  4 years ago

  You need more medicine reverend?
• Cashman1234

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  4 years ago

  I apologize for being negative, but as we move from fall to winter I think it will become more difficult to determine whether symptoms are a cold or covid. If I don’t lose my sense of taste - I’m going to hope it’s a cold. I’m hoping they got the flu vaccine right this year too.