My cousin has the same thing with her allergy pills, except they like to play "PSYCH!" with her. She takes them, they work for perhaps twenty minutes, perhaps less, and then she starts to sneeze in such a loud fashion the people across the street can hear her.
(And ye gods, that song is rather unfortunate to listen to while driving. Anything that mentions death or explosions doesn't work in that situation, really.)
Ugh, yeah, and those are usually the allergy pills that claim they'll work for 12 hours, aren't they? I swear it's a bad joke.
(There are so many songs that shouldn't be driving music. I almost wish I had someone I could prank with a whole mixtape/CD of it. Or just play it in my car and see who notices. My mom didn't notice the Pearl Jam song about the car wreck playing that one time, though, so the joke would just be on me. *sigh*)
I've had allergies for ages. I used to get sinus headaches, sometimes so bad that I couldn't do anything but suffer or sit in a steamy shower with my eyes closed. But newer allergy medicines really help.
I used to use Benadryl (diphenhydramine, in case they have alternate formulae), which generally worked, but made me sleepy. Since I was often short of sleep anyway, that was a pretty annoying trade. The pain went away (maybe, or at least got milder), but I fell asleep when I was supposed to be doing something.
Another useful older medicine was Sudafed (pseudoephedrine, the stuff that they keep behind the counter now because it's too good for the shelves). It cleared out the congestion, and kept me alert. Sometimes the alertness side-effect was even useful as a primary effect, when caffeine didn't do the job. The nasty catch to pseudoephedrine is bounce-back; when it wears off, sometimes the congestion comes back even worse than before.
I finally spent the big bucks and went to an allergist. She did the arm-scratches test, and found
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*Nods* oh yeah, not only are the allergies my inheritance from both sides of the family, once the sneezing starts there isn't much that can stop it. I'm the first to admit I've abused combinations of allergy medicine to get through events*, but even in half-doses, Sudafed turns me into a mediocre Hulk. I can laugh about it now, but the first time I ever took a Tavist-D (a psuedoephedrine-based pill given to me by a doctor), I spent three hours crying and then couldn't sleep for two days. My grandparents told me not to stop take anymore and took me to Rite-Aid to grill the pharmacist. I ended up with a great cold and allergy pill...which was pulled off the market a few years ago. I can't recall the name of the ingredient, but it was the ingredient psuedoephedrine replaced in most things, before being replaced by phenylephrine which...does nothing. -_- I've had luck with saline spray, but every time I think I have it figured out something else sets my nose off. It's madness! :P
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(And ye gods, that song is rather unfortunate to listen to while driving. Anything that mentions death or explosions doesn't work in that situation, really.)
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(There are so many songs that shouldn't be driving music. I almost wish I had someone I could prank with a whole mixtape/CD of it. Or just play it in my car and see who notices. My mom didn't notice the Pearl Jam song about the car wreck playing that one time, though, so the joke would just be on me. *sigh*)
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I've had allergies for ages. I used to get sinus headaches, sometimes so bad that I couldn't do anything but suffer or sit in a steamy shower with my eyes closed. But newer allergy medicines really help.
I used to use Benadryl (diphenhydramine, in case they have alternate formulae), which generally worked, but made me sleepy. Since I was often short of sleep anyway, that was a pretty annoying trade. The pain went away (maybe, or at least got milder), but I fell asleep when I was supposed to be doing something.
Another useful older medicine was Sudafed (pseudoephedrine, the stuff that they keep behind the counter now because it's too good for the shelves). It cleared out the congestion, and kept me alert. Sometimes the alertness side-effect was even useful as a primary effect, when caffeine didn't do the job. The nasty catch to pseudoephedrine is bounce-back; when it wears off, sometimes the congestion comes back even worse than before.
I finally spent the big bucks and went to an allergist. She did the arm-scratches test, and found ( ... )
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