Every year about this time, my seasonal allergies kick in and my sinuses conspire to kill me. My head fills up like a balloon and my nose either runs like Niagra Falls making me choke at odd intervals or stops up completely and prevents me from breathing normally. This year it is particularly bad leaving me to hope for that first hard frost when finally all that nasty pollen and leaf junk will stop blowing around.
I live for Benadryl at this time of year. Benadryl is that amazing little allergy medicine that takes the itchiness out of my running eyes and blocked up ears. But most of all I live for Mucinex!
Mucinex is a wonder drug. It's a huge horse pill that you can buy over the counter but costs an arm and a leg to get. Just choke down one of those lovely large pills and suddenly the nose is clear, the drainage stops, the eyes stop running, and, ahhhhh, I can breathe freely.
Today at work I was out of Mucinex. Around 3pm I couldn't take it anymore. I wasn't even able to talk on the phone because I kept choking on my own...well, you know. I knew my co-worker had some Mucinex...in her desk...and she was not at work. What to do!?
I mean, I am not the sort that rifle through other peoples' personal space but I was in desperate need! Finally, I couldn't stand it anymore. I really couldn't. I had to get it. So I did it. I opened her drawer and opened her medicine box and here it was...one last lovely Mucinex. So I took it! I felt horrible for doing it too but I was going downhill fast.
After work I 'fessed up. I met my co-worker for dinner and told her I had rifled through her drawer. She didn't care. But I was still full of guilt and couldn't rest until I told her! All those years of Catholic school I guess!
So all's well that ends well. But seriously, if you have allergies...Mucinex D. Highly recommend it!
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
To breathe, per chance to sleep...
My apologies to William Shakespeare for bastardizing his words for my blog title today but breathing is on my mind. As is sleeping.
I have seasonal allergies so in the Spring and Autumn my nose is either the flood gates of hell or the Garrison Dam. I am always somewhere between being able to breathe but constantly blowing my runny nose or being a mouth breather who can't sleep at night. I have the one nostril clear, the other stopped up syndrome all night long and nothing I take seems to work for very long. Right now, I have taken both a Benadryl and a Sudafed and my nose (and head) are still stuffed up! It feels like someone is sucking all of the oxygen out of the atmosphere and I'm not getting my fair share. Subsequently, I am tired. Dog tired! I opted to leave work early, taking four hours of paid vacation time, just so I could come home and try to get some rest!
When I'm not battling my nose and sinuses, I am rubbing my eyes which feel very much like two tiny porcupines have been placed into my eye sockets when I wasn't looking. They're itchy! I dream about taking them out and soaking them in something to get the itch to stop! They, like my sinuses, are in a constant battle between being dry as a bone or running uncontrollably which make it looks like I'm crying about something all the time.
I suppose I could go see an allergist but I know that this will last only until the weather gets cold and then it all rights itself again. Until spring. But even then, summer comes and its all okay again. I'm not one for taking a lot of medications anyway. I take the odd Ibuprofen when my gamey knee acts up, Tylenol if I get a fever (rarely) and, if I get a cold, I'll break out the Nyquil. Being a woman of a certain age, I do take daily vitamins with iron, Vitamin D (because I am D deficient) and one tablet of fish oil each day (good for the bones, joints and brains, doncha know!). The last prescription medication I took was a Flexeral when my back went out and I was having muscle spasms. That was a while ago now. So, basically I'm a healthy broad! So, I'll suffer the stuffy/runny nose and the itchy eyes and know it will go away eventually.
Right now though, I'm going to take a nap!
I have seasonal allergies so in the Spring and Autumn my nose is either the flood gates of hell or the Garrison Dam. I am always somewhere between being able to breathe but constantly blowing my runny nose or being a mouth breather who can't sleep at night. I have the one nostril clear, the other stopped up syndrome all night long and nothing I take seems to work for very long. Right now, I have taken both a Benadryl and a Sudafed and my nose (and head) are still stuffed up! It feels like someone is sucking all of the oxygen out of the atmosphere and I'm not getting my fair share. Subsequently, I am tired. Dog tired! I opted to leave work early, taking four hours of paid vacation time, just so I could come home and try to get some rest!
When I'm not battling my nose and sinuses, I am rubbing my eyes which feel very much like two tiny porcupines have been placed into my eye sockets when I wasn't looking. They're itchy! I dream about taking them out and soaking them in something to get the itch to stop! They, like my sinuses, are in a constant battle between being dry as a bone or running uncontrollably which make it looks like I'm crying about something all the time.
I suppose I could go see an allergist but I know that this will last only until the weather gets cold and then it all rights itself again. Until spring. But even then, summer comes and its all okay again. I'm not one for taking a lot of medications anyway. I take the odd Ibuprofen when my gamey knee acts up, Tylenol if I get a fever (rarely) and, if I get a cold, I'll break out the Nyquil. Being a woman of a certain age, I do take daily vitamins with iron, Vitamin D (because I am D deficient) and one tablet of fish oil each day (good for the bones, joints and brains, doncha know!). The last prescription medication I took was a Flexeral when my back went out and I was having muscle spasms. That was a while ago now. So, basically I'm a healthy broad! So, I'll suffer the stuffy/runny nose and the itchy eyes and know it will go away eventually.
Right now though, I'm going to take a nap!
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