I hate it when I feel a sinus infection coming on. I sometimes think that the anticipation of the pain that I'm going to be going through is almost as difficult as when the pain actually gets here. Then when it gets here I remember that it's much worse to feel it. The pain typically starts as a pressure behind the eye sockets or in the cheeks near the nose, sometimes it hurts into my forehead. Then it brings along a headache that pounds and grinds until I think it is never going to stop.

The first thing that I would always do when I felt a sinus infection coming on was to grab some sinus infection medication that I had picked up at the drug store. The feeling was usually nice, kind of a drug induced numbness that I wished would last forever, but that is the problem with sinus infection medication, it typically only lasts for a few hours and then you need to take more. Not only that, but it does nothing to help get rid of the infection, it just covers over the unpleasant symptoms. So what do I do now when I get a sinus infection?

The first thing that I do is to do two things to help keep myself from getting the sinus infection in the first place. That is taking a little bit of apple cider vinegar every day and then doing a nasal irrigation using a netipot that I picked up at the local drug store. I know that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and I sure do like that fact that my sinus infections are fewer and further between than they used to be. If one does happen to sneak through the defenses then I use warm compresses on my face, wherever I feel the pressure and make sure that I drink plenty of warm liquids, such as herbal tea, in order to overcome the problem quickly.