I’m a fairly zen flyer, someone who rarely has issues when spending hours in a pressurized cylinder 6-miles above the planet, other than intense boredom and the odd outbreak of sewing-machine leg. But yesterday, on landing in San Diego after a cross-country flight, I felt as if someone with shards of sharp glass had climbed into my head and was pressing non-stop from behind into the area between my left eye and eyebrow. Ow! Ow! Owwwwwww! Have never had it happen before, and would never want to have it happen again. It was awful
The culprit? My current cold, apparently. As this discussion at FlyerTalk makes clear, despite never having had a problem before when flying with myriad colds and the like, I’m far from alone in one day being attacked by in-eye gremlins on the descent.
Note to self: No more flights with sinus pain.