Eye Socket Hurts after plane ride. Any ideas?

[Scrat335]

Sinus issue.

[GearHeadDave]

Originally Posted by bls5555

Yesterday I flew on a 1 hr 42 (aprox) plane ride. I started off in an aisle seat but the flight was pretty empty so I moved to the window seat so I could stretch my legs out a bit. I sat there the whole flight and then with about 30 minutes or so left in the flight we started the descent and very soon after that I just got a stabbing pain in the inner part of my left eye.

To describe it just circle your inner eye up by the bone and down past the bridge of your nose to the bottom bone. In that area. It would stab and then throb. It literally made my eye water and i pretty much tried to push on the area as hard as I could to get it to stop. Didn't work that well. I got up after about 2 minutes of it or so and switched back to my aisle seat and it seemed to stop.

I am starting to feel it again everyonce in awhile again today though not for long duration. It will happen and the let off for awhile.

Anyone know what this could be or why?

I will state that this was my 4th flight of the trip and this was the 1st time I sat by the window.

I get that fairly frequently, it is common. It is probably caused by sinus, as others have mentioned. Pressure changes in the cabin. Seating location won't have anything to do with it; the pressure changes can be a lot different flight to flight though. The amount of time you spend at different altitudes can make it more severe, for me a long overseas flight tends to be worse.

[mgodthelp]

So after all these painful issues with left eye pain and intense recurring headaches on the same side I self diagnosed that I had a severe bacterial sinusitis infection. Don't know how I got it but yes apparently it can be caused by air flight. I had the pain and discomfort for 2 weeks which was a drag during our vacation and then decided after reading on the net that in Cyprus you can get antibiotics at any pharmacy which happen to be like pubs on just about every street corner. I wrote the name of the antibiotic I needed which in fact was Augmentin as they state this is the first line of defense for a bacterial sinusitis infection and the lady at the pharmacy handed me the antibiotic which I got for less than 5 euros (I actually bought 2 packs) she then asked me to also take some probiotics whilst on the antibiotics and handed me a glass tube of these as well. Really efficient and really cheap and prompt service. Ok so I dont ever take antibiotics unless really needed but in this case I knew I needed help. I have been on them now for 5 days and its only this morning that I have woken up without a constant headache and eye pain. I did leave it untreated for 2 weeks just using a nasal spray with cortisone initially twice daily but use the nasal spray with the Augmentin twice daily now and its seems to be helping somewhat. Just goes to show and this is the first time I have ever had such a problem. In any case hope this helps others with similar problems. I will be seeing my doctor for an all clear once home again of course.