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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Sinus troubles
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 11:56:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 11:56:32 1985
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> I was wondering if any of the readers of this net ever have sinus trouble
> during landing (on big jets), or is it peculiar to me.  While landing on
> a United (boo!) big jet in Chicago, I experienced excruciating pain above
> my eyes.  Is there any possible solution to this?  I tried all the standard
> remedies, but to no avail.  Many thanx in advance.

My wife and I both have problems with recompression.  When flying a
light plane, I keep the descent rate to 300 fpm or less to avoid it.

Certain air carriers are worse than others.  Around here, Southwest
Airlines is famous (infamous?) for arriving on 3-mile final at 5000 AGL
(well, that's a *bit* exaggerated :-)

I asked the doc about it, and he said about all I can do is take
an allergy tablet an hour or so before descent, use a nasal inhaler
when beginning descent, and Valsalva as required during the descent.
I also find that removing my (hard) contact lenses provides a marginal
improvement in the level of "discomfort".
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{ihnp4,seismo,decvax}!noao!terak!doug
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