I will start from beginning, I woke from sleep on Sunday and I felt as if I was having mucus in my throat. My ears were clogged on the third day. My nose is even clogged, but my ears were more clogged. Now it's the 5 day and I can feel that the right side of my throat is painful and that my right ear is even clogged. I have gargled, but that's not working. I can feel popping sounds and as I swallow a drink, eat, or talk it is hurting. One more thing, today, the 5th day, I saw a sore on my upper lip that's on the left side. It is not very big, it's very small.
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I would use an antihistamine to unclog your ears. Use just enough to unclog them, not too much or it will dry out your mucous membranes.
For your nose, use nasal saline, at the drugstore or Walmart. It is cheap and you can use the generic. Use it until it goes all the way through. It will go in your throat and taste salty. Keep clearing your nose with it.
For your throat, use a numbing throat spray such as generic Chloraseptic. Or, use numbing lozenges such as generic Cepacol.
If you get a chill, your body temperature is too high. Take a fever reducer such as generic Tylenol or ibuprofen. Try not to take these unless you have a chill, since it could make you sick to your stomach.
One more thing I forgot to put in my answer below: Don't blow your nose until you've used the saline to get the stuff in your nose really fluid and watery. Blowing a clogged nose causes your sinus lining to swell up and this will clog it even more.
I'd say see a Doctor soon. Don't risk ending up with burst eardrums and hearing loss, it's never worth it.
Marg from England.
Visit www.webmd.com first. This site is great but it can only post in the order it's received so you can't get information as fast. I hope you feel better soon.
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