S: Allergies

[topane]

Man, this time of year just plain sucks! I'm ready to remove my sinuses with pliers or something. ARRRRRGH!

[revil]

I hear you! My nose is peeing!

[cruelpupet]

I seem to have lost my allergies...usually I would have gone through 5 boxes of tissues this time of year, but these past 2 years I've had nothing!


For those of you who are still suffering...I suggest claratin

[StonedWheat]

It's worse for me this year than last year. The plants are attacking!!! Claratin still makes me sleepy. Rinsing my face off with water helps a lot. Hopefully mine will go away like yours cruelpuppet. Did you just lose the reaction naturally?

[ProMinx]

yeah...i used to be allergic to like everything, bu recently...not so. My parents have a cat, a dog, and a bird (so that covers all animal furs) and my mom has a few large gardens and two fairly large lawns (covering pollens and grasses) and yet nothing has bothered me in like 5 years, so i'm totally free. Yea!

[theorangeone]

for some reason, i've had very little pollen/grass allergies this year. hooray! first time in years i don't travel with a kleenex box attached to my hand.

i did have an allergic reaction to something else (not sure what) that has made my hands yucky. only my hands, which is what is odd. so they are sore and bumpy and now they are covered in steriods.

allergies of any kind suck-diddly-uck.

[Edited by theorangeone on 05-03-2001 at 06:01 PM]

[cruelpupet]

Originally posted by StonedWheat
It's worse for me this year than last year. The plants are attacking!!! Claratin still makes me sleepy. Rinsing my face off with water helps a lot. Hopefully mine will go away like yours cruelpuppet. Did you just lose the reaction naturally?


yeah it went away naturally...as for the claratin, it never made me drowsey. Ive been takinf different brands of allergy meds all my life so i have a tolerence to them.

[topane]

I've only had a problem the past couple of years. Even worse--last year I got poison ivy for the first time. I used to be immune to that, too. <sigh>

[welfareloser]

Originally posted by topane
I've only had a problem the past couple of years. Even worse--last year I got poison ivy for the first time. I used to be immune to that, too. <sigh>

here's the scientific facts from your resident expert:

nobody (barring some odd mutation) is immune to poison ivy. you must be exposed to it roughly six times before your first reaction, tho, so if you go through childhood and never run into it, and then you run into it a few times in adulthood, you think hmm, i must be immune - you're not. just hug it a few more times.

as for allergies, i have found that nasalcrom kicks ass - it's just a liquid nose spray that polymerizes in your nose, coating the inside and doing a pretty good job of blocking allergens from getting in and snot from leaking out. when you blow your nose, you get plastic shrapnel on the kleenex, but there are no medicine-head side effects. works for me all spring and summer, but in the fall i gots to drug up. triprolidine hydrochloride 2.5 mg and pseudoephedrine hydrochloride 30-60 mg.

[topane]

I've been exposed to poison ivy dozens of times prior to my first allergic reaction. But whatever the reason, it sucks that it started bothering me.

[welfareloser]

yeah, a lot of people think that... not saying that you're wrong, i have no idea, but usually, for example, on a hike, it's not the first person in line who gets exposed even if they touch the leaves. the leaves have to be crushed to release the chemical warfare, so the first couple people rip up the leaves when the step on them or brush them, and its the rest of the people at the end of the line who get exposed.

poison ivy is evil that way...

[cruelpupet]

you can also get poison ivy from the spores it releases (i had a friend who lived near the stuff, and he'd get it without being near it.

[irwin]

I'm interested in that NasalCrom stuff, is it prescription or over-the-counter?

[welfareloser]

Originally posted by Passwird
I'm interested in that NasalCrom stuff, is it prescription or over-the-counter?

over-the-counter, and not too expensive. takes up to two weeks to kick in, but it usually works for me in like 3 days. best part is, i can drink (beer + sudafed = zzzzzz)

[theorangeone]

a guy i worked with told me a story about him and his wife in their "early" days.

they had a romp in a field, not realizing it was poison ivy. they had a very difficult week following that.

[Full Monty]

I first started getting allergies about three years ago, and they sucked big time. I woke up many summer mornings with my eyes glued shut from all the crap that was coming out of my eyes and making them itch. They have been getting less severe over these past few years, but I find Actifed helps. Knocks me right out . . .