Facial tingling with sinusitis

It’s funny reading some of these posts, I’ve been trying to link my misterious illnesses over the past few years. Like many of you I haven’t had much help from doctors!

I started having the chronic headaches and assosiated facial pain and sensations about 5 years ago, I never really knew why.

Years later, I started having frequency in urination, eventually followed by pelvic pain, then eventually chronic gut pain and digestive issues.

I was lucky enough to discover and integrative doctor whom ordered a test that measures levels of bacteria in the gut, the results I got came back an revealed I had a serious over growth in bad bacteria and a significant undergrowth in good bacteria.

Knowing my past experience with doctors I decided to set out to treat myself and started learning as much as I could about this condition. I started treating it with antifungal herbs, diet and probiotics and after suffering for months and months with chronic gut issues, the problems resolved almost overnight. The funny thing was that the headaches, neck pain, facial sensations, urination and pelvic pain went too! I actually couldn’t believe it!

Anyhow, I thought i was healed and started drinking alcohol again and slipped up on the diet and I’m back with the head pain and facials sensations, which has been a month or so.

I started researching the link between all my symptoms and found a common link between where I found all my pain. Sinuses, Prostate and Gut - the three most common places where once has an infection. I’m almost convinced now that I, and likely all you are suffering with either a low chronic bacterial/fungus/yeast/candida infection that causes primary symptoms such as headaches and gut issues, but also secondary symptoms like joint pain, muscle pain, insomnia, dizziness, cold limbs, fatigue, tearing, digestive issues, cognitive issues plus loads more, and that doctors have not got a clue about this condition. I’d really love to speak to some of you and see if you and your symptoms can back up any of my research... 

Hi. Just experienced tingling in the edge of my upper lip. I started intranasal flush with budenoside some time now. I think it's the drug and not the sinusitis per second that causes tingling

It's been a cripler for me. Made me insane trying to get to the bottom of it. Finally Flonase / antihistamine make so much difference - just glad I figured it out -

Dear 'Sue',  I empathise with you.  Have just been diagnosed with facial pain and also have the same sinus feelings as yourself.  I am doing steam inhalation.  Visited a good homeopath and am seeing a craniologist soon.  

?It seems, from what I have read, that it can be tricky to know what is causing this feeling.  I know it is hard, but keep faith and hope alive.  You are not imagining anything.  My own symptoms are pain, sometimes pressure, and terrible nausea.  I try to keep busy, but just fighting the condition can be exhausting.  People do not always understand.  You do what works for you.  I have had this for about 5 years.

My best wishes to you and I pray that we both recover from this.

All the very best.

Read this discussion today . I have almost all these symptoms since last year .

It started with sinus problem , then gave numbing feeling and rifling on left side of face sometimes above the lips and sometimes on cheeks or under the left eye.

Dr put me on Prednisone and Anti virals which didn’t help at all but made me feel dizzy all the time ..

Also I have been experiencing a strange feeling of sudden dizziness or suddenly

I feel very hot and sometimes faint .

Got MRI and Ct scan .

Have sinus .. it’s hereditary for me .

When ever I wake up I feel my face is numb or tingling . Even got checked by my dentist if it’s the crowns I got last year . She says no it’s not bec of that .

Also as I was reading this discussion I remember that sometimes if I am stressed this tingling comes back .

Don’t know what to do .

I know this post has been going on for over a year but it's really relevant for me. I have suffered with chronic sinus problems my whole life. But recently I am really going through the ringer. I got a cold around Christmas and it turned into a sinus infection like it usually does. This one has been hanging on. I had 10 days of Amoxicillin and it was quite a ride with that. I usually get a z pak but this particular doctor that saw me had me take the Amoxicillin. I ended up having tinnitus in my left ear for two days. I heard buzzing and ringing and was dizzy. I went to my ENT in a panic because I thought I had a brain tumor and was losing my hearing. Everything turned out to be fine. That kind of cleared and I pretty much felt better and now that I am done with these antibiotics for a couple of days now I have facial tingling in my cheeks and face again. That set of my anxiety and is giving me panic attacks. I feel like there are little bugs crawling on my nose and face. I have hot flashes because I am menopausal and that makes it all the worse. I feel like I am losing my mind because I am so frustrated. I don't want to keep running back to my ENT because I get the feeling he thinks I am exaggerating. I do have some arthritis in my jaw and have starting using a bite guard at night because I think I clench my teeth in the night. I blame stress and anxiety. But I am not imagining my congestion and tingling! I hate that feeling and it's very real. Oh let me add in that I get allergy shots every 2 weeks and have been doing that for 4 years. This is my cross to bear in life. I know others have diseases and conditions worse than mine, but at times it is a living hell and quite frankly I get depressed about it. I just want to feel normal. Thanks for letting me share my story. I hope you all are better!