I’m guessing it’s from dry air god me but even with humidifier I always have to blow my nose a bunch of times in the morning. Sometimes my lungs feel tight for a while after waking up. This happen to anybody else? Why does it happen for you?

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    So, I actually had this because of my humidifier. I was using an ultrasonic humidifier with tap water - I know distilled is recommended, but with how dry it is here, that would mean an insane amount of bottled water. But I noticed a film of white dust appearing around the room from the dispersed salts and whatnot. Turning off the humidifier (and later replacing it with an evaporative style) cleared up my daily stuffiness instantly.

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    Tape your mouth when you sleep, when your body thinks it’s about to suffocate your nostrils will open right up.

    Make sure your tongue is pressed up on roof of mouth right behind your top front teeth when you are awake, keeps you breathing through nose and not mouth.

    Go to the gym and hit the treadmill, run as long as you can only breathing through your nose, go back everyday and increase the time by 5-15 seconds.

    This combo solved it for me and got rid of snoring.
    When I started on treadmill I could only do about a minute of running without mouth breathing, now I can go as long as my legs will last. Don’t expect to be able to make it through whole night with your mouth taped, and tape verticle not horizontal, with small easy to remove tape… don’t kill yourself.

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      woah that sounds extreme haha. i do that sometimes when i can’t breathe without tape, i just force breathing through my nose and it opens up but not permanently. i’ll try doing some cardio training. thanks!

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    I have nasal congestion due to allergies every morning so here’s some advice that might help you.

    You can try a Neti pot morning and night. The NeilMed ones at Costco pharmacies are good.

    Use distilled water or boil your own for 1-3 minutes depending on the elevation in the area.

    Once the packets run out you can measure 1/8 tsp baking soda, 1/8 to 1/4 tsp non-iodized salt (e.g. sea salt).

    For prescriptions, Omnaris might work for you too. Gets things moving and doesn’t have the congestive rebound effect that over-the-counter nasal decongestants do.

    All the other advice about controlling allergens is on point too. You can try an anti-histamine (e.g. Aerius) for a week to see if your congestion goes away but allergy meds dry you out a bit by design and gum you up so maybe this won’t have the effect you’re seeking.

    You can get a sleep study for apnea but I’d say only if you’ve had actual fatigue related symptoms, not just what you’ve described here.

    You could get a breath test for your lungs. Maybe there’s mold at your place. That tightness should be enough reason to get checked out, tbh.

    Best of luck!

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      Really appreciate Kate all the advice! I’ll try/look into these. The tightness is more like my lungs are really tired and I have to wake them up so they feel heavy.

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          damn walking pneumonia. i don’t think it’s that bad, but i’ll tell my doctor next time i see them. i do have an inhaler but don’t really have asthma.

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      cool. i’ll try using the air purifier again. mine is pretty loud though. is that one pretty quiet?

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    I’ve had the same thing for years. You should get checked for sleep apnea… I have it but unfortunately the CPAP machines don’t let me sleep. I cannot get used to it.

    But I sneeze at least 50 times and blow my nose as much for one or two hours after waking up.

    The rest of the day my sinuses are clear. I’ve asked Doctors and haven’t gotten any real solutions.

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      Damn. That would suck. I hope that’s not the case. I’ll ask my doctor about it. Would I be snoring a lot if I had it?

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        Yes, snoring and waking up from a dream where you were suffocating or couldn’t breathe for one reason or another. My girlfriend sometimes wakes me up because she thinks I’m choking. It’s also worse if you happened to drink that night.

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      Have you looked into a dust mite allergy at all?

      Do you have a mattress cover that you wash and replace your pillows often?

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    The classic advice is to go see a doctor and with what you’ve described I’d recommend it.

    To answer your question, yes I do. However, I have an autoimmune disorder that makes me have a constant runny nose unless I’m on some meds.

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      I have and nothing serious. It’s only in the morning. I have allergies but infrequently. Wondering if living in a different environment would make sense.

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        Okay cool, then yeah maybe the dry air. Dry, stale, dusty air fucks with my sinuses too, but idk if that’s my autoimmune or a normal thing people get. So I usually keep my house filter clean and run a fan and that seems to help me

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          Yeah I gotta use the air purifier in conjunction with the humidifier and see if that helps. Thanks. What’s the autoimmune you have, if you don’t mind my asking, so I can do a little research about it.

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    Could be a dust allergy (or rather the poo of dust mite), you could try changing your sheets more often, and vacuuming more, and especially vacuuming the headboard of your bed, even more imporantly if it’s fabric. I have found my throat closes up if I haven’t vacuumed the headboard in a long time. Once I do, my throat goes right back to normal :) Hope this helps!

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    I’ve been living with this for 20 years and only now seriously seeing an ENT to figure it out. One thing doc has me doing is a twice a day sinus rinse with a NeilMed sinus bottle. It has def improved things a lot.

    I say see an ENT and they will probably take a swab to check for an infection. I had one and pill antibiotics didn’t help so he has me doing this rinse with an added antibiotic powder.

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    In addition to other suggestions here (all good ones so far), maybe an allergy? Could be something about your pillow

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      Yeah I definitely have allergies. I have a foam pillow and cotton case. Maybe I need to do some deep cleaning in the room or start using an air filter.

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        Do you take an antihistamine? I live on Zyrtec and would be miserable if I didn’t take it daily

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                If your body produces too much histamine in response to cotton or something else super common like dust mites, you aren’t going to remove all of that stuff from your environment

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    Sounds like allergies/asthma. I would go see an allergy clinic and get tested. If you find you have allergies you could consider getting allergy shots.

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      I definitely have allergies. I gotta see what options they have besides taking pills or spray