Type 2 - new to insulin

Sharon14448

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Hi, I was just wandering around to see if I could find any suggestions as to what I could take for some sinus problems following my 3rd cold since Christmas. I found this site and figured it could be useful for all sorts of things!!
 

noblehead

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Welcome @Sharon14448

For blocked sinus issues I use Olbas Oil, a few drops in some hot water with a towel over your head breathing in the vapour works wonders.
 
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hurf0rd

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Hi @Sharon14448,

I wouldn't have thought that anything you sniff would affect your blood sugar, so in that sense I think the choice is yours. But you're the person in charge - surely you can measure your sugar before and after to see any effect? If it's bad, you can avoid that medicine in the future.

To give you an idea, I was in hospital once and my sugar went beyond 30 mmol/l, so much so that a few of their glucometers went off-scale (in general, the glucometers on the wards are exactly the same ones that you or I would use at home). They got very worried and put me on an insulin drip to bring it down, but nothing bad happened to me as a result. I mean, it'd be very scary if you had that kind of blood sugar reading for weeks and months on end (most probably, suicidal), but as a one-off it had no long-term effect on me (in fact, I felt fine throughout). In my case, my sugar was back to "normal" within 12 hours or so.
 
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Liam1955

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Hello @Sharon14448 and Welcome to the Forum :). You could try a few drops of Olba's Oil in bowl of hot water, drape towel over your head over the bowl and breathe in through your nose the vapours of menthol.
 
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Vaper

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Not sure if my suggestion will be valid but when I was diagnosed I gave up smoking and started to vape instead, if this suits you try a menthol juice, I use it all the time and it clears my sinuses and gives me my nicotine hit at the same time.