Sensory question

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Need to know if sensory issues on anyone else seem to increase if you don't feel well or have sinus troubles. My daughter has been doing really well on a new natural treatment for anxiety and seemed in better control of her sensory issues. But the last few days she has been feeling bad with sinus issues just generaly punky. Her sensory issues seemed to have gone into overdrive and I notice much more stemming. Can this be realted to not feeling the best?

She has been taking the anxiety treatment for about 2 months and has shown lots of improvement even doing better with the sensory troubles. But last few days she is grumpy and jumpy!

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Yes, it does make it worse. For me, sinus problems (which I actually developed in my mid-thirties) can be likened to the sensations you get with migraines (which I had as a teenager and for a brief period in my thirties). Have you ever read about people who become sensitive to light, sound, touch and even smell when they have a migraine? Well, that's what it is like when you have sinus pressure on top of sensory issues. It may be reacting like the medication is not strong enough because in fact, her sensory issues would be amplified if she wasn't taking the medication. Does that make sense? I hope that helps. I know how horrible sinus problems can be as well sensory issues, so I feel for her and you trying to help her.

Hopefully when the sinus problems pass, so will the grumpiness. Good luck!

I new to AS, but not to my issues! I have always felt "jumpy" (especially noises) as a precurser or as a direct result of my exzema. But that was before I knew what AS was or that I have it. It very well might be more multifaceted than even I could make it. This exzema could be my body reacting to what my mind was experiencing. I'm not saying that exzema is in my head, but that the two are connected. I just was not bright enough to put the two together. Now I know that AS exists, and that I have it, I can make a more educated guess as to why. I do have the same anxiety, it just manifests itself in a different way. I wish you and your daughter well.
damocles

yes,I never knew why when I was sick I never wanted to be around people(even comforting boyfriend),Just wanted to be left alone to read and try and shut everything out(I think reading is my stimming,as it soothes me and helps shut out external world)....I have a lot of headaches,not sure the cause but they are definitely made by bright lights,,noise,both of which can trigger a migraine.

What is causing the sinus issues?Alergies,sinus infection,cold.....the former two can be treated or else they will just come and go forever.It took me a month on anti-biotics to get rid of a recurring sinus infection.Taking the 10 day dose seemed to make the symptoms subside and just return a few weeks later.There is also an intersting thing called.....Painkiller rebound?Not sure of the actual term,but it refers to people who take pain killers(acetaminophen,Ibuprphen)on a regular bases.Some how the body seems to get addicted to them and the only cure is trying to go a week or so without them to get them out of your system.It was a week in he** for me,but did break the cycle.

Sorry, there was to be an 'm after the I in my post. I good at riteing stuf!!
damocles

Absolutely. I have had problems with sinus infections for well over 45 years now. Almost every time I have an infection sound and bright lights become intolerable. All I want to do is find a dark, quiet place to curl up in and pull a soft blanket over my head.

My kid says the same happens with her.

Yes.....I am (somewhat) fragile. I have allergies. Anyway, when I am not feeling well, for whatever reason, I am just more vulnerable. It's as if I have a saturation point; when I reach my limit I become overwhelmed. I need to be in a safe, quiet, confined place (I often don't get to, but this would be ideal). My enhanced senses become overwhelmed and I can feel faint.

Yes, but from bad neck bones. mostly OK, but a strong jolt, pain, for days, as it drags on, my ability to cope lessens, an when I reach a point, nothing to do but sleep it off in a dark room. All lights and sounds are too much to bear, one feeds on the other, throw in a person, and bad turns worse.

Many years ago I bought into painkillers, doubled the dosage, have no sense of time, and later found I was on the edge of killing myself by accident, read the label. Even a week of over the counter and the wiring is messed up. Now I just live through it, for if the pain is bad, the body copes, and fighting makes it worse. Drugs can mask the pain of a broken bone, but it is still broken.

My friend the bed. Dark, the hum of a window AC blanking out the world. Fighting it just makes it last longer, get worst. In time the pain subsides, my coping skills return, somewhat happy, productive, back at my life, till next time. The shortest road to recovery is best. Nothing else matters, nothing else works.

I find that total darkness is wonderful. With some of the load removed, light, sound, my recovery is much faster. A hundred years ago dark and silent were common. Biology does not adapt. Once overloaded, strange behavior. Thick lined drapes, white noise, soft pillows and sheets. Not as a bandaid, but as part of life, a place of shelter, my room.

If I have a stuffy nose I have a hypersensitive (moreso) sense of touch. And my wonky hearing gets wonkier.