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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)

Of course, the allergens haven't really kicked in yet.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 19 March 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

ugh god dont remind me. I WANT TO ENJOY SPRING THIS YEAR.

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 19 March 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

though i'm glad to see all my seasonal allergies homies are back in the same place

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 19 March 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

"rolling AUGH MY FACE thread"

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 19 March 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Everytime I suffer from !@#$%^&&**&**()*#@@@! and I see this thread on New Answers, I always assume teh JBR revived it.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

actually most of the revives on this thread are rockist scientist's!

― stockholm cindy is a guy with a belly button piercing (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:14 (twenty years ago)

-- america's next top ramen

robble. i never noticed this one.

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I got it confused with this thread

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

and even then, only one revive.

― stockholm cindy is a guy with a belly button piercing (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:27 (twenty years ago)

Then maybe it was this thread

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:34 (twenty years ago)

Or this one

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Or, apologies in advance, this one.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

i get sick a lot. i have the immune system of an aids patient.

― stockholm cindy is a guy with a belly button piercing (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I didn't mean to pick on you. I was just letting my achy sinuses hide behind yours.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

After using it for over a year, I decided to kick Astelin this past Friday. The first few weeks, it was really knocking me out. But even since then, it seemed to be sapping my energy and causing some memory problems (frequent delays remembering names and words that should have been easy to come up with). I took it, in the first place, in hopes that it would allow me to return to being as active as I had been in previous years, but I have been even less active over the last year than I was in the previous one. Anyway, now that I've quit, I feel more alive. I feel like a part of my consciousness that had gone missing is now back.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

(It did seem to cut back the frequency with which I had headaches, but it didn't do enough for me to justify putting up with the side effects.)

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

A long while back, I had a nurse tell me, "It's a good medicine, but I can't use it. It makes me crazy."

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Am I the only one who develops nothing but a terrible cough this time of year? No runny nose, itchy watery eyes, but a dry cough that makes the sahara look humid and my mother non-nagging

― Will M., Monday, 16 April 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Sinuses=fucked. Mold count still very high, but late summer grasses at high now as well, plus I think the changes in the weather at the moment might be as much a part of the problem as my allergies. Plus I have a stiff neck, I must have slept funny.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 19 August 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

(Weeds not grasses. Whatever.)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 19 August 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

here we go again

― sleep, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

my mold allergies + suspect hvac system at work = i have a radar o'reilly-like ability to tell when the ac is coming on seconds before anyone else knows.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

got em today, flowers have felled me once more

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

fuck these, seriously. I thought I was getting a cold a week and a half ago until I realized that the pollen level just got cranked above the level that pills will neutralize for me. fuck.

― mh, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://pollen.com/images/usa_map.gif

― mh, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

OM NOM NOM NOM

― gabbneb, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/pollen/

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

flowers have felled me once more

I used to think this, too. But I was wrong.

Pretty much anything with a flower evolved that flower in order to attract pollenators, such as bees or wasps. The U&K thing about being pollenated by an insect is that you (the plant) can make a much bigger grain of pollen, packed with more genetic information, and then let the bee carry it hither and yon for you. Bees are strong critters.

Before flowers evolved, plants had to pollenate by dumping their pollen grains into the air and letting the wind carry them. Big drawback there, because you (the plant) must be contented with less genetic info exchange.

Small pollen grains on the wind are the real culprit in seasonal allergies. That means non-flowering plants like grasses and some kinds of trees (e.g. alders) are doing the damage. If you see a big, showy flower display, it means insect pollenation, big pollen, and not to blame for your or my misery.

― Aimless, Monday, 14 April 2008 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

I like how, on that map, there's this little extended kick right into Arkansas.
I feel so crappy -- dang you, ragweed!

― Ai Lien, Monday, 14 April 2008 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

ugh i love how this came on just as i have a whole bunch of work to get done that my brain will not now allow me to do because it's so fuzzy.

― tehresa, Monday, 14 April 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

I'm through the worst of it, but see a lot of people struggling. I was really bad a few weeks ago.

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 April 2008 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

claritin is cutting most of my symptoms down by about half but i still hate life right now

― sleep, Monday, 14 April 2008 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

The meds are just awful!

― Ai Lien, Monday, 14 April 2008 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

was there a big spike in pollen today? is this why i have a sore throat maybe?

― bell_labs, Monday, 14 April 2008 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

I'm doing a little better this year; I'm preemptively taking meds (about two months early) and doing occasional neti pot. But yeah; it's bad today.

― forksclovetofu, Monday, 14 April 2008 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

i am dying :(

― tehresa, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Ever since Sunday I've been in absolute fucking AGONY. I've never tried Claritin before. Is it any good?

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

The generic version of Claritin is called loratadine. One dose is generally for 24 hours. It works pretty well and doesn't have drowsy side effects for me when I stick to the suggested dose.

However, I do take some additonal Benedryl (generic: diphenhydramine) at night to help keep the symptoms down when pollen counts are high. That knocks back some of the histamines in my system and the drowsiness doesn't matter.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK THIS. yeah, put me in the "thought i had a cold OH WAIT" pile. :( :( :(

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

xpost to map: that map has changed!

― Ai Lien, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

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