vbhoutex wrote:gpsnowman wrote:gboudx wrote:Yes bring on the Spring allergy season. Can't wait to start suffering.
The last week of January and the first two+ weeks of February I was absolutely miserable with allergies. Have had them my entire life and tried almost every form of pill and inhalers available, with only temporary relief. Hating needles I decided to bite the bullet and start getting shots in my rear end starting in 2008. Cortisone steroid shots that last for about a year. The first few years it worked like magic. Hardly one allergy attack each winter/spring. The last couple years the positive effects tended to wane. With that, compounded with having to pay the majority of the cost thanks to "new" insurance, I decided to purchase a bottle of OTC Zyrtec and a box of CVS cold and sinus. About 10 days have passed and I must say, so far, these have worked wonders. The Zyrtec is once a day and the CVS brand I took early on but haven't needed lately. I hope and pray this continues on into the spring season.
Your allergies sound like mine. Of course this year they had to morph into a sinus infection. Now that I am over that all I do is drain, drain, drain. Guess I'll try the zyrtec otc since others haven't worked.
I am not liking the drier and warmer than normal we are having. If it lasts long enough it will do another 2011 where dry and hot begets dry and hot and then along comes drought which begets drought. UGH!!
I've recently been on antibiotics for a sinus infection. Not sure if they have completely cleared it out yet but at least I have a doctor's appointment this week so will find out one way or the other.
I don't wait at all anymore, as soon as I notice it's changed from just regular allergies to a sinus infection I go to my ear, nose and throat specialist. I never had a problem with sinus infections until a few years ago when I waited 3 months before going and by then my sinus cavities were so bad I ended up having surgery where he went in and had to scrape them out because the skin tissue was infected. To my defense, I didn't know how a sinus infection felt like until then because I had never experienced those symptoms. I assumed when it started that it was just a prolonged bout of allergies but the way my face started feeling changed and I experienced vicious headaches right behind my eyes and the forehead. Let me tell you, I've had kidney stone surgery back in 2007 and if I had to choose between recovering from one of those two surgeries, I'd pick kidney. I've never been so miserable in my life after the sinus surgery so I don't take chances now that I distinctly know when a sinus infection starts to pop up. I don't ever want to go through that horribleness again.
Right now it's the Red Oak pollen that's getting to me. I don't remember a time when I've seen them pollinate in Febuary.
Moving on to weather... It doesn't look like this progressive pattern wants to give way. This mornings EWX discussion only had a slight shot of storms Tuesday morning then once again like January and February we can't get enough moisture return before the next front arrives. The models are split next week with the Euro continuing the drier progressive pattern and I tend to side with the Euro these days.
