Streaming nose first thing in the morning - allergies? Bug? Some weird ME/CFS thing?

Sasha

Sasha

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For quite a few weeks now, I've started up with a streaming nose as soon as I get up. I've also been sneezing more than usual. I do anyway have a chronically stuff nose and sneeze a bit but over the same period, I've felt a fluey aching. I'm still shielding and it would be extraordinary if I've managed to catch something but maybe I have.

But I'd like to know what this nose business is in case I can do anything about it. My nose isn't running overnight (or I wouldn't be able to breathe) and doesn't (I think) start running when I wake up - rather, I think it starts running when I sit up and start moving around. Then it streams a lot for a few minutes and then it dies down quite a bit.

This seems a weird pattern. Any ideas what it indicates?

FWIW, I can't do housework and my flat is very dusty.
 
No idea I’m afraid @Sasha but I have periods where my nose just starts running. Sometimes when I get up first thing, sometimes after eating, or just around the same time in the afternoon. No idea what causes these strange patches. Similarly with eyes watering (although other times they’re dry).

I would say I’ve given up trying to work out the myriad odd things that happen and how our bodies respond to the world and changes within us. But I haven’t as I too want to understand and do something to help them when they happen. So hope you get to the bottom of it or it stops soon.
 
Sasha said:
I do anyway have a chronically stuff nose and sneeze a bit but over the same period, I've felt a fluey aching.
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I've got something like this too. Seems as if it's gone on too long to be a virus (it started at the end of November) but I don't really know. The aching comes and goes, and while it's similar to what I'd get with some winter viruses, it's not as bad. I feel off-colour more than ill.

I've found fexafenadine helps a bit, but it might only be clearing the stuffiness I'd have anyway from allergies. Other than that, no idea.
 
Sasha said:
For quite a few weeks now, I've started up with a streaming nose as soon as I get up. I've also been sneezing more than usual. I do anyway have a chronically stuff nose and sneeze a bit but over the same period, I've felt a fluey aching. I'm still shielding and it would be extraordinary if I've managed to catch something but maybe I have.

But I'd like to know what this nose business is in case I can do anything about it. My nose isn't running overnight (or I wouldn't be able to breathe) and doesn't (I think) start running when I wake up - rather, I think it starts running when I sit up and start moving around. Then it streams a lot for a few minutes and then it dies down quite a bit.

This seems a weird pattern. Any ideas what it indicates?

FWIW, I can't do housework and my flat is very dusty.
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Just to rule it in or out but are you putting any form of heating on at any point ?
 
For some years I have experienced a runny nose on waking in the morning or shortly after getting up. Usually it clears after blowing my nose a couple of times. Very occasionally I also get it after sleeping in the middle of the day. I don’t usually get it when waking in the middle of the night. It had not occurred to me to link this to ME/CFS.

More recently I also sometimes get a runny nose when eating. This is more reminiscent of older people with a drip at the end of their nose during meals (gustatory rhinitis, which becomes more common as people age), so I had just assumed this was to do with getting older.
 
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