Thanks, Rain. Interesting suggestions. I'm appalled that medical professionals would talk like that to your husband. If you deal with healthcare long enough, you're bound to run into a jerk eventually. I know we did when my s.o. was very sick. I'm glad CBT is working for him.

Today my face hurts, especially around my eyeballs, and the lymph glands under my jaw are tender. My nose is very stuffy. I believe this is due to Juniper pollen which is at moderately high levels now. I may have a sinus infection, secondary to the nasal congestion. That would account for the face pain and general malaise. I'll go buy some Flonase tomorrow. If I don't improve soon, I'll call my provider. It was my sister, far away, who suggested the diagnosis. For some reason, "allergy" never occurred to me. I called her to discuss the possibility of it being COVID. "Allergy" fits my circumstances a lot better. I've taken an antihistamine, and I feel a bit better.

I do have other issues to deal with. For now, I'll take medications that I've used in the past - successfully - to control allergy symptoms. I've read that even sinusitis will usually clear up without antibiotics.

So I expect to feel better in a few days. By that time, I'll also have my hydrocodone refill. I just took the last tablet of that, which helped greatly the general achiness.

It helps so much to figure out what's wrong and to know it can be successfully treated.