Allergies or Death, Give me death.
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Then it would be an autoimmune syndrome.I managed to have an allergic reaction to who knows what while I was posting in this thread. Am I allergic to Trekkies now too?
So I read this post last night and I didn't get it until today.
Good to know becasue I've been watching a lot of Enterprise lately and I was wondering what Enterprise had to do with Allergies.
Good to know becasue I've been watching a lot of Enterprise lately and I was wondering what Enterprise had to do with Allergies.
More than you might think, actually.
aaand I do not now, nor have I ever suffered, any allergies whatsoever in all my nearly 52 years of existence. I think it must be my borg-like bloodtype
Come to Texas. We'll fix that.
Kestra I feel your pain. I'm allergic to everything!
When I was a baby, I was so allergic to dust (dustmites) that my parents had to sterilize my room every night before I went to sleep (no curtains or rugs allowed in my room). If they didn't, I'd get hives all over (and in my throat) so that I'd be hospitlized.The 'cures' for allergies were minimal in the 60's.
Now, I know most of my allergens and stay away as much as possible. I don't have the shots as I had a reaction to those too I take a daily Reactine and keep my puffers at the ready.
The only allergen that is difficult to stay away from and lands me in the hospital is perfumes. I am as deadly allergic to perfumes as some are to peanuts.
When I was a baby, I was so allergic to dust (dustmites) that my parents had to sterilize my room every night before I went to sleep (no curtains or rugs allowed in my room). If they didn't, I'd get hives all over (and in my throat) so that I'd be hospitlized.The 'cures' for allergies were minimal in the 60's.
Now, I know most of my allergens and stay away as much as possible. I don't have the shots as I had a reaction to those too
I take a daily Reactine and keep my puffers at the ready.The only allergen that is difficult to stay away from and lands me in the hospital is perfumes. I am as deadly allergic to perfumes as some are to peanuts.
So I read this post last night and I didn't get it until today.
i became allergic to the allergy shots
i mean how sad was that. it took just about three years and they do help some but wham.
i have allergies and asthma and have three inhalers and and three to four pills to take depending on what is happening.
still i actually got through spring pretty well.
and the flood even though i tell which areas were beset by mildew.
but to a very rainy may and june our weed season is early. all of a sudden it is very hot and dry and the dust is every where.
ugh..
aaand I do not now, nor have I ever suffered, any allergies whatsoever in all my nearly 52 years of existence. I think it must be my borg-like bloodtype
Come to Texas. We'll fix that.
or nashville.
people who moved here never had an allergy in their life and one spring..boom.
Spent ten awesome days there in May '09... with nary a sniffle (although my eyes did water a bit over at BB King's but that was from pure joy)aaand I do not now, nor have I ever suffered, any allergies whatsoever in all my nearly 52 years of existence. I think it must be my borg-like bloodtype
Come to Texas. We'll fix that.
or nashville.
people who moved here never had an allergy in their life and one spring..boom.
My plant-related allergies are fairly mild, and don't show up at all due to the medication I take daily. My main one is cat fur, and I live with a cat. I had to go and decide I wanted to be a singer, so allergies are more of a bad thing than usual, which is why I take medication daily.
I take a 24-hour loratadine (Clairitin) with a 12-hour pseudoephedrine. I'll take a second one later in the day if needed. They make pills that contain both loratadine and pseudo, but it's cheaper to get them separate, for some reason. I have a nasal spray for the rare occasion the pills don't do the job, but I don't know what it is. Nasal sprays irritate the inside of my nose and throat, so I only use it if I have to.
For choosing medications:
Clairitin vs. Zyrtec: Zyrtec kicks in faster, but doesn't work quite as well. Prioritize as needed.
Pseudoephedrine vs. phenylephrine: Pseudo or don't bother. If phenylephrine doesn't do much of anything, assuming it does anything at all.
I take a 24-hour loratadine (Clairitin) with a 12-hour pseudoephedrine. I'll take a second one later in the day if needed. They make pills that contain both loratadine and pseudo, but it's cheaper to get them separate, for some reason. I have a nasal spray for the rare occasion the pills don't do the job, but I don't know what it is. Nasal sprays irritate the inside of my nose and throat, so I only use it if I have to.
For choosing medications:
Clairitin vs. Zyrtec: Zyrtec kicks in faster, but doesn't work quite as well. Prioritize as needed.
Pseudoephedrine vs. phenylephrine: Pseudo or don't bother. If phenylephrine doesn't do much of anything, assuming it does anything at all.
my eyes have been really bugging me the last couple months. I dont know if its really from being allergic(which Ive had before, or at least I think its what it was) or if I just strained them too much from using the computer. In the past Id go to the eye doc, get a prescrip for allergy drops & after about a month the dry/itchiness goes away. This year I was fine until I stayed up late for 2 nights playing solitaire, & I really abused my eyes with that. Since then If I stare at a computer screen for too long or sit in front of a fan or air vent my eyes start to get dry itchy & sting. Ive been using both regular dry eye & allergy drops but this time they are only working temporarily. I dont seem to be getting bettter. 
Oh, that's terrible! I vaguely remember my eyes troubling me when I was younger, but it wasn't till I was in high school that I suddenly became allergic to everything outside. I can't imagine being like this since birth!
i became allergic to the allergy shots
I do have reactions to the shots but they're within the normal range. It's like a temporary misery.
My only allergy is dustmites. That's a problem whenever we go to my grandmother's cabin/house, because she doesn't have dust covers on the bed. I take no medication for it, other than an emergency inhaler I almost never use.
A few years ago I had a slight reaction to oak on a skin test, but I've never noticed any allergies despite being surrounded by oak trees.
A few years ago I had a slight reaction to oak on a skin test, but I've never noticed any allergies despite being surrounded by oak trees.
There's a way to make this dirty but in my fatigue I can't figure out how.
I normally "chain sneeze." But normaly the chain is only 2, maybe, 3.
Here's a question on similar lines: Do you supress the sneeze, do you give it the full force of your super-lungs, do you sneeze and somehow give it a weird noise (women are good at giving sneezes a "squeak"), or are you the plain, normal, "Achoo!" type?
More of a chain of 3-4 "ATcho"s at decent volume, followed by one high pitched, yodel-like "owie" at the end of particularly hard sneezing fits.
If a sneeze is at the tip of my nose, I'll try to help it along by looking at bright light (the sun works great), which works 70% of the time.
At times, going into bright light, like outdoors from in, will make me do a one-off sneeze with no allergens present.
If a sneeze is at the tip of my nose, I'll try to help it along by looking at bright light (the sun works great), which works 70% of the time.
At times, going into bright light, like outdoors from in, will make me do a one-off sneeze with no allergens present.