Benadryl @ MindSay

Mold has always gotten me and I'd actually started to do better with it, taking a homeopathic tincture and Claritin only when I really needed it.  Turns out my allergy was affecting my sleep as well so occasionally a half a Benadryl would do me right.

Well, the party is over.  They say in Austin your allergies/sinuses get worse every year and this is the year for me.  Good God, something has wrapped itself around my brain and sinuses and is making me miserable!  Ragweed has come in and I guess this now affects me.  I've had to take Claritin every single day but it's doing almost nothing.  The only thing it's helped is that if I don't take it my tummy gets upset (probably from all the post-nasal drip) but otherwise, not helping the whole front part of my head.  [Forgot to add:  the doc's office gave me some nasal spray samples and not a bit of help that I can tell.]  Have started taking a piece of Benadryl at night which helps me sleep but as soon as I stand up in the morning I feel the weight of congestion descend.  Funny how you can be so snotty and yet so dried out in your eyes and inside your nose from all the drugs.  Ugh!!  A couple of people I know are taking Zyrtec and like it but I hear it makes some people drowsy so I might experiment with it this weekend.  I might also do the "I'm not cooking meth in my kitchen" dance with the pharmacist and see if I can score some pseudoephedrine, if there's any to be had.

Somebody help me!  *Achoo!*  (Yep, it was a WET one!!)

Well I woke up this morning at around 4:00.  My sinuses were all messed up.  Allergies.  I couldn't breathe worth a crap.  So needless to say I coudn't go back to sleep.  The first thing I did when I left the house was go and by some nasal spray.  I bought Zycam.  It didn't work.  By that time, my allergies had turned my nose into a water fountain.  Luckily, I thought, I have some over the counter Clariton at work and that should take care of the fountain deal.  No that stuff didn't work either.  Around 9:00 I couldn't take it any more so I went to the company's medicine cabinet for some hay fever pills to take.  They didn't work either.  I felt like death was upon me.  Tired, itchy eyes, runny nose, the whole works.  So I broke down and called the doctor and moved my appointment time till Thursday at 9:00.  Sometime you have to be ready to deal with reality and admit you might need someone elses help with health probles.  As you can guess, I wait as long as I can until I go to a doctor.

So I suffered through this day.  My boss won't let us go home for sickness so I had to tough it out.  I did very little work today.  I went and bought a box of tissues at lunch because all I had were these machine shop grade paper towels and my nose was red like Rudolph.  When I was on my way home I went and bought some Benadryl.  It's been about a half hour since I took two doses and I can tell the difference but I am not near being normal.  I am praying for sleep tonight.