Dealing with Nose Bleeds and a Nasty Cold

Cold and nose bleeds… I got a pretty nasty cold this week, and since it is SO DRY in my nose and everything, I got a really bad nose bleed last night and had to go to urgent care and was told to get Afrin. Thanks cold. I hated the feeling of the bleed it would not stop gushing in my throat. Anyone else get this? I am being evaluated specifically for Vascular EDS because of a genetic variant in many of my family members with said vascular EDS symptoms, more mild but probably due to their history of high blood pressure and need for beta blockers young. I had COVID a year ago, and this happened some during that cold with nose bleeds but tbh I tried not to blow my nose after like two so it never happened again + used vaseline so I’m thinking that would be the money. I wonder how many of you all have had this experience? I’m sure its more common in people with EDS since our connective tissue (and especially my blood vessels) is so fragile. Not an experience I would want for anyone else because its kinda freaky knowing you’re losing so much blood so close to your brain…even if it doesn’t work like that. I definitely don’t want it cauterized I just want it to naturally go away and soon. Also wondering who else has fallen to this cold?! Summer virus, not COVID, gave me pink eye in one eye, goes to lungs and causes bronchitis, and starts in the throat and causes pain there for like almost a whole week. Sucky.