So I ve been sick for about 15 days now but it just now stated getting really bad. I have many symptoms such as lots of mucus in the back of my throat, ear hurting, nose congestion, coughing, and sneezing. But the most severe of my symptoms that I started experiencing yesterday is my left ear is stopped up so what little I can hear is fuzzy and the worse that s just super uncomfortable and painful (besides the mucus in my throat) is the fact that my top lip is completely numb and now my bottom one is becoming numb too it hurts to smile or talk. Please tell me what s wrong and what I should do to treat it.
Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. I had seen your medical condition description and understood your true concerns. Lip is a very sensitive area which is fully merged with blood vessels and nerves. So we should not neglect. Moreover there is nasal congestion, sneezing and cough. One of the major thing we have to consider is throat pain which will guide us to check for infection. Respiratory tract infection can spread to all parts. Pain and numbness may be due to inflammation of nerves supplying lips due to infection. We have to confirm the type of infection by following investigations: 1. Complete blood picture2. X-RAY PARANASAL SINUSES 3. nerve conduction tests4. blood cultureProbably it may not be severe, may not be emergency, but better not to take risk in this type of situations and go for above investigations.For immediate relief 1.you can take any anti-inflammatory drug2. apply pain killer ointment3. after getting reports start antibiotic4. multi vitamin tabletsYou can come back to us with your investigation reports so that we can guide you with better way of treatment. Hoping for a speedy recovery. Take Care! Regards, Dr. VAMSI KRISHNA CHITTIMOJU,