After twenty nine years, I finally flew. Yes, I started late. ^_^
Before that happened, I was in a serious dilemma. Read on. (Please?)
So far, I have never been diagnosed of sinusitis. When consulting a doctor, it's always been allergic rhinitis. I didn't lack research about sinusitis. Almost all the symptoms my body show were that of it. That's why I would like to believe that it was sinusitis. After extensive research about this topic, I came to know this: flying with a sinus problem or even with just a bad cold is a bad idea. I totally forgot about this little piece of information until two days before our flight to Palawan.
So I started googling about "sinus problem and flying" and found a number of sites saying things like these:
- "avoid flying with a sinus infection"
- "serious pain and potential complications"
- "rupture of the tympanic membrane in severe cases"
- "excruciating pain about my left eye as the plane starts to land"
- "head feels like it was going to explode"
I already felt my "head like it was going to explode". That happened, on two separate occasions, when on a bus going down from Baguio to Nueva Ecija. I had a bad cold during that time. I slept all the way from Baguio to Pugo, La Union. When I woke up, it felt like there was something going on from my eyes to my nose to the back of my ears and above my nape. It was like something got trapped inside my head that could not get out. Excruciating really was the perfect word to describe the pain.
