Sometimes, it is all about me...
I am a seasonal allergy sufferer. Of course that somehow doesn't really cover it for me because I seem to be sneezing year round lately. If it's not pollen from trees, grass, flowers, it's the ragweed or the mold and mildew, and even animals. I am probably allergic to cats. It may just be that I am tolerant of my three. I know I am allergic to dogs. Being enclosed in a home with these open mouth breathers of the animal kingdom is a sure fire way to wind up in bed, eyes swollen shut, sneezing what's left of my brains out. (Don't take it the wrong way, I adore dogs, I really do… just as long as someone else has to shovel, feed, walk and bathe them. Kinda my stance on children as well…maybe I am allergic to them…)
Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that this time of the year is the worst for me, especially when it's this humid. It seems to encourage the cottonwoods to spew their nasty little white floaty things everywhere. It looks almost like snow as it covers people's yards, driveways and pools. These little white tufts of misery are generally my undoing. They send me into a tizzy of hay fever the likes of which most medical science has never seen. And other than succumbing ot the allergy test / shots thing, there isn't much that my doctor can do for me. (I opted out of the shots, mainly because hubster does want children and you can't get the shots if you are pregnant. With my luck, I would get to the first round of shots, then get knocked up. That is a waste of money and time that I just don't have. Child first, then shots.)
The other route is the prescriptions of Claritin, Allegra and Zyrtec. All of which I have tried. Usually I'll take them for a month, then the mother of attacks hits, I figure the medication has failed me and I will never take it again. Besides, I don't like taking a pill everyday if my symptoms only hit every once in a while. So, I live on Benadryl. I take it only when my eyes start getting itchy, and it usually side tracks the rest of the misery. The problem there is that it makes me all sleepy tired. Like right now. I spend time fighting to stay away and time gets all strange. I find myself open mouth drooling into the key board reading the same line over and over and over and over and… like now.
Also, my mouth now tastes like ass…
I snort benadryl for recreation purposes. *lol*
Posted by: Trench at June 30, 2005 02:59 PMThat shoud say recreational. Recreation purposes is something entirely different.
Posted by: Trench at June 30, 2005 02:59 PMStop tasting the ass! That just can't be helping antyhing.
Posted by: Shawn at June 30, 2005 04:17 PMEwww! You poor thing. I feel for you.
But because, as your friend, I really am a sh*t sometimes, your allergy hell kinda reminded me of the following strip from Queen of Wands:
http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20030528.html
There, now don't you feel better?
(ducks, covers, and runs like hell)
Posted by: Linda at June 30, 2005 06:06 PMI have fairly severe allergy problems too, so I can relate. I've never tried Benadryl (diphenhydramine), because it's also used as a sleeping pill and I don't need drowsiness on top of allergy problems! What works best for me is chlorpheniramine ... but unfortunately, I think the extended-release version has been barred by the drug police. :-(
Posted by: Sunni Maravillosa at July 1, 2005 09:17 AMI can sympathize with the allergy problems. I seem to get them at random intervals throughout the year. But Benadryl is the devil. Taking even a half dose of that stuff puts me in an immediate coma and leaves me zombified for no less than 24 hours. I have to feel like I'm on death's door before I'll touch the stuff.
Posted by: Ystros at July 1, 2005 02:20 PMEthne, Down here in Houston we get the pine pollen. It's pale yellow and it get all over everything. It covers the car, the windows on your house, in the streets, and everywhere. I'm not that allergic, but when I do have an attack it's bad enough to put me to bed. Benadryl put me to sleep so fast you wouldn't believe it.