Nose injury, help.?!
Question: i hurt my nose really bad but its not broken- it got swollen though.
now its feeling a little better, but if i turn my head upside down it hurts. I keep feeling like i have a sinus infection because fluid is streaming out of my nose like water.
is this normal after a nose injury?
should i see a doctor?
Answers: i hurt my nose really bad but its not broken- it got swollen though.
now its feeling a little better, but if i turn my head upside down it hurts. I keep feeling like i have a sinus infection because fluid is streaming out of my nose like water.
is this normal after a nose injury?
should i see a doctor?
Do you know it isn't broken because you saw a doctor? or are you just assuming? I ask, because there may be a small fracture that is causing an autoimmune response, which in turn is causing your sinus infection like symptoms. Another (might I add extremely unlikely, not really probable in this case) reason for fluid streaming out of your nose (if it is a constant drip or stream) would be that the septum between your sinuses and brain has fractured a little and that fluid is cerebrospinal fluid. Highley unlikely, but it has happened before. I would go to a doctor if you havent already just to be sure nothing out of the ordinary is going on, and if it is a sinus infection secondary to the nose trauma then he can give you some meds to help with that at least.
Better to see a doctor to be absolutely sure.