Over the next couple of months the symptoms continued to show during the early morning hours, varying in severity and improved throughout the day. There were good and even better days, interrupted by occasional early morning wake-ups with swollen shut sinuses and/or drowning in post nasal drip mucus. We developed a routine of self-medication with ibuprofen, OTC cold medicines and daily saline nasal rinses to mask the symptoms (but not solving the problem). A week before Christmas I started to develop an increasing pressure in my sinuses with a low grade fever and decided to see my primary care physician. Diagnosis: sinus infection. Treatment: antibiotics.
And it helped!
Two days later I felt much better and the morning stuffiness was gone. My immediate conclusion: great- we finally found the root cause. It was a sinus infection that went on over 8 weeks, getting worse over time and the antibiotics started to knock it out. If I just would have seen my doctor earlier, all this suffering could have been avoided. At least so I thought! Dani went through the same experience just a couple of days later. By Christmas we both seemed to be fine, spent the holidays with Dani’s family in Fuquay-Varina and New Year’s in St. Martin. No symptoms, no problems, all good!
Or so it would seem!
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