The bridge of the nose and slightly north where it meets your eye socket is a frequently cited pressure point for helping alleviate headache pain so I could see how that might help with sinus issues as well. As someone who gets frequent headaches I've found the best thing that works for me is taking two #2 pencils, eraser side up, and massaging that pressure point in small circles. I'm sure it looks absolutely insane but it works!
While I have no issues with headaches, I think that area is around where you pinch/massage when trying to help open and drain your sinuses. It might help to look up "pressure points to drain your sinuses".
Yes, either taking my glasses off or taking them on can really have an influence on sinus-y headaches for me. Part of it I would say has to do with the lenses itself and eye strain in my case (haven't had new lenses since 2016 or so, should probably check that out), but part of it is definitely also related to the pressure/lack of pressure on the bridge of my nose.
I also agree that massaging the bridge of my nose and the area around my eyes can help or at least influence the discomfort/pressure for those kinds of headaches. I think that area (behind the bridge of the nose) is where the Ethmoid sinuses are located. I think if something is wrong with them or they are infected, they can also cause pressure behind the eyes and in the area of the bridge of the nose and so forth.
Do you also have a deviated septum? I wonder if that also might influence it.
Another thing that really can have an effect on pressure headaches (but also stuff like tinnitus) for me is performing a Valsalva maneuver (i.e. attempting breathing out of my nose while pinching it), which is supposed to equalise the pressure between the nasopharynx and middle ear.
Observations like those are both fun, but also frustrating to me, because my anatomy knowlede is so bad, and trying to communicate those observations to physicians is a fools errand in my experience. I can't really blame them because obviously their resources are very limited and it seems a bit (or is) navel gazing in the end.
But it's also very reassuring to read that other people have weird symptoms and observations about their bodies, and that having those is also often completely normal in a way. Thanks for sharing!
I think it's pretty crazy how everything in our bodies is connected (often quite literally, when performing the Valsalva maneuver for example or blowing my nose too hard, I sometimes feel air coming out of one of my Nasolacrimal ducts, which apparently is a quite common thing) in so many complicated ways. It's hard to isolate variables to figure out what's actually wrong and where to even start looking when something hurts.
This is a bit tangential so feel free to mark me off-topic, but how do you tell when something's a sonus headache versus another kind of headache? Maybe I've just never experienced a true sinus headache or maybe I lump it together with other things but I see people referring to them as a distinct thing a lot lately and I'm curious how you tell.
The bridge of the nose and slightly north where it meets your eye socket is a frequently cited pressure point for helping alleviate headache pain so I could see how that might help with sinus issues as well. As someone who gets frequent headaches I've found the best thing that works for me is taking two #2 pencils, eraser side up, and massaging that pressure point in small circles. I'm sure it looks absolutely insane but it works!
While I have no issues with headaches, I think that area is around where you pinch/massage when trying to help open and drain your sinuses. It might help to look up "pressure points to drain your sinuses".
Yes, either taking my glasses off or taking them on can really have an influence on sinus-y headaches for me. Part of it I would say has to do with the lenses itself and eye strain in my case (haven't had new lenses since 2016 or so, should probably check that out), but part of it is definitely also related to the pressure/lack of pressure on the bridge of my nose.
I also agree that massaging the bridge of my nose and the area around my eyes can help or at least influence the discomfort/pressure for those kinds of headaches. I think that area (behind the bridge of the nose) is where the Ethmoid sinuses are located. I think if something is wrong with them or they are infected, they can also cause pressure behind the eyes and in the area of the bridge of the nose and so forth.
Do you also have a deviated septum? I wonder if that also might influence it.
Another thing that really can have an effect on pressure headaches (but also stuff like tinnitus) for me is performing a Valsalva maneuver (i.e. attempting breathing out of my nose while pinching it), which is supposed to equalise the pressure between the nasopharynx and middle ear.
Observations like those are both fun, but also frustrating to me, because my anatomy knowlede is so bad, and trying to communicate those observations to physicians is a fools errand in my experience. I can't really blame them because obviously their resources are very limited and it seems a bit (or is) navel gazing in the end.
But it's also very reassuring to read that other people have weird symptoms and observations about their bodies, and that having those is also often completely normal in a way. Thanks for sharing!
I think it's pretty crazy how everything in our bodies is connected (often quite literally, when performing the Valsalva maneuver for example or blowing my nose too hard, I sometimes feel air coming out of one of my Nasolacrimal ducts, which apparently is a quite common thing) in so many complicated ways. It's hard to isolate variables to figure out what's actually wrong and where to even start looking when something hurts.
This is a bit tangential so feel free to mark me off-topic, but how do you tell when something's a sonus headache versus another kind of headache? Maybe I've just never experienced a true sinus headache or maybe I lump it together with other things but I see people referring to them as a distinct thing a lot lately and I'm curious how you tell.