"seasonal allergies"

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they've actually been better this year than last, but fuck me the space between my eyes feels like a gremlin is smacking it with a mallet right now

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

sudafed, my dear man, sudafed.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i'm doped up on something. actually it may not have been an allergy med now that i think of it. this is what i get for throwing all the remnants of the blister packs into one box at the end of the season.

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The twelve-hour kind.
(xpost)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Clarinase, if they have it over there - it has the antihistamine, and a 12 or 24 hour slow release sudafed as well. Sends you completely loopy with speediness, but damn does it work.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i get a headache everytime the fucking weather changes.

― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Texas just passed a law that's going to require all pseudoephedrine-based (eg Sudafed) products to be sold by pharmacists to cut back on speed freaks cooking meth. Wouldn't it have been easier to just say "don't sell forty boxes to the same person"?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Fucking allergies *@()#*@()*#@(). I'm a little stuffed up right now.

I've been buying my advil cold+sinus from drugstore.com because Rite Aid around here wants a drivers license to buy a single box. I think it's been handed down to them, but it's stupid.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck, i can't tell if my out-of-it-ness today is allergies or if i caught a cold from the girl i hooked up with on saturday, who had a cold for a while.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Pseudoephedrine has only ever been available behind the counter at pharmacies here... and in fact even then it is often hard to buy. Can you buy it in supermarkets in the US or something!?!?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

(mind you we can get codiene meds real easy here =))

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes it's OTC

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Supermarkets and drug stores, some convenience stores, yeah. I used to get a bottle of 100 60mg pills from my school pharmacy for $3.99 that would last me a couple of months.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The candles on the horse chestnuts are doing it for me right now, those bastards.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

claritin does the trick for me, but it's so expensive - hence: HI DERE I'M IN HELL. WATCH AS I CLAW MY EYES OUT IN ORDER TO SCRATCH THEM BETTER. LISTEN AS I SNIFF EVERY 15 SECONDS TO STAVE OFF THE FLOW OF MUCUS

― Amon (eman), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I take the walmart generic (equate?) 24 hour allergy pill (I think it's like $17 for 60) and they work really well.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

My head is killing me and it happens way too often.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

So what is it that gives vicious allergice reactions in August? Seriously, advice hugely appreciated.

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

ragweed season!

― mike h. (mike h.), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

For me, it is primarily mold. Where do you live?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Ragweed comes in to it too, generally late in August around here (Philadelphia).

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Even if you don't know what it is causing the problem, you could experiment with only going outside during certain parts of the day and see if some times of day are worse. (They usually should be.) Of course, staying in-doors may not be a choice, or may not seem worth it. I seem to generally have less problem being outside in the evening.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 6 August 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

i have no idea what my main triggers are, but my allergies have been terrible all summer. they haven't been this bad since i was a kid and according to all the information i've seen there hasn't been particularly high levels of anything around here this season. it's driving me crazy.

― La Monte (La Monte), Sunday, 7 August 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Did you check the mold count? And where are you?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 7 August 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

O"IHY*({*(H:JKLH:HUIPUGPIVGUBVFU^R&(%$*^%#$*$&%R&%*(%^*(&^R&%ED(%&(^*D^*RCDYCR(&%

OTM. I was outside to go from my apartment to the gym and then back again (with a short detour to a drug store), about 12 blocks in total. Now I have a headache. We are being told it will be a very bad month for ragweed.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

"seasonal"

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

11 months and one week per year.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Bash head in.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

High pollen count today. After riding my bike 10 miles to work, for the next hour I felt like I'd been sprayed with mace.

― brianiac (briania), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

I sound like an infomercial but I haven't had any allergy problems since I was prescribed zyrtec a couple of months back, and I usually have a myriad of allergy-related problems at this time of year.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Uh huh. I don't think any mere antihistamine will be a magic bullet for me. I believe I've tried zyrtec.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

I've been going through a box of kleenex a day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

ew, tmi

― N_RQ (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

i've gotta try zyrtec. i've been sneezing like mad.

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been too bad, but every day for the last four or five days, usually in the morning, I'll sneeze like six consecutive times and start clamoring for tissue.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

ew, tmi

Haha, really?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Ragweed is awful! I've been taking the 24 hour claritin and doubling up with decongestants during the day (or some 12 hour Al3gr4 my parents had lying around). I can breathe! It's really sad when you can count down the hours until you take another by gauging how well you can breathe.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

fucking hell

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

yeah my fucking head hurts like a goddamn fucking motherfucker. fuck.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

christ

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

fucking hell

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

christ

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

somebody bring me very spicy soup please

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

come to think of it i've got a jar of rooster sauce and a spoon.

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

Me too. I'll bet I won't even be able to smell the stinko ginkos on the corner of Hicks and Pierrepont today.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

agonising pain in left sinus, eye wants to close over and die, constant flow of goo from left eye, bruises on left eye from rubbing, when will the nightmare end?!!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

headache

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

p.s. i totally know the stink k/l is talking about!!! always the same bird-shit smell, every time i walk past there.

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

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― s/c johnson wax (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 March 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Astelin has been fairly helpful for me, but it does make me tired more often than I'd like to be, but then again, it knocks me out enough that I don't care about being knocked out. I just take it before I go to bed anyway.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 19 March 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

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this year is starting early... I think it's these acacia-like trees with bright yellow blossoms (silver wattle?), plus the winds

I have some Claritin lozenge things that seem to be working

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 13 January 2025 18:20 (one year ago)

nine months pass...

Ragweed pollen, why u break sinus?

― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 October 2025 10:13 (seven months ago)

truly one of the worst pollens

― mh, Friday, 17 October 2025 13:40 (seven months ago)

fwiw the reason I tested myself for covid a couple of weeks ago was because I *don't* have seasonal allergies but had a relentlessly stuffy nose. I sort of figured, hmm, with global warming and weird weather in general, maybe there was something in bloom in mid-October that I don't usually encounter, and my nose was reacting. But no, it was covid. In fact, it's remarkable how many people I know that have had similar allergy-like symptoms the past week or so, too, though as of yet none of them have tested positive for covid. Just strange stuff in the air all around. Pollen, smoke, covid, tear gas, etc.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 October 2025 13:44 (seven months ago)

It is happening again!

― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 October 2025 20:37 (seven months ago)

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