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Does anyone experience sinus stuffiness so severe that you literally feel like you can’t
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Try going on a low histamine diet for a few weeks. It saved me. I had
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going for a ct scan and allergy test next month. Anyone else have this problem due
again. It’s like Covid makes us sensitive to histamines.
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Hannah Windless thank you! I will try this!
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230 M Ann Kerns 88 comments 12 shares
Hannah Windless I had same issue.
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I took across the counter sinus med an it helped me
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Hannah Windless Covid triggers hisitimine intolerance and Mast cell
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things you· were never allergic to before. Going low hisitimine, using
antihistimines and Flonase have been game changers!
Anyone dealing with thick mucus post covid for more than a year?! I blow my nose
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so much, and my ears pop constantly. The mucus is so thick and stringy, sorry TMI…
I take Claritin daily
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Hannah Windless tyfor sharing. I am going to look it up and try it.
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Hannah Windless I’ve noticed this with the histamines too. Figured it
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Anyssa Nicole Ortega When your throat closes after eating
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something it is an allergic reaction... after covid things that you
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I am going through this since covid as well one side I just cannot breathe
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Carol Hargis Kirsch thanks for responding. I have also had my
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tongue to look white after Covid. I've also had ulcers in my
mouth. COVID-19 Long Haulers Support
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Debra Joy Morgan Since Covid I have had thrush on my tongue
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Isbell DawNee thank you, you too! I’ll definitely keep you
updated if anything works, or comes up in hopes it can help
others as well.
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Paula Reynolds what did they do to diagnose a long term
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Megan Scott Try chlorpheniramine. It's been a game changer paired
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with famotidine twice daily.
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Brenda Currie
Yes - that’s where my neuro long covid is focus in my sinus , ears , eyes ,
cognition and memory ugggh
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Janet Lucas your husband sounds like me. What antibiotic
on fluticasone propionate nasal spray and Zyrtec but I still have these symptoms, it
cleared it?
causes a lot of brain fog and like my brain just wants to shut down.
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He took two courses of antibiotics, I can’t remember which one
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Janet Lucas are the antibiotics available at pharmacy?
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drainage and neck and throats hurt but also had no elevated white
blood cells. I finally got augmentin last week it is helping!
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