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[poliphilo]

I guess I'll be taking antihystemine (sp?) tablets for the rest of my life now.

Perhaps I can knock them off during the winter months.

But then again, seeing I just got this ramping attack of hay fever in mid february, I'm not sure any time can be considered safe.

Would it be specious to link this to global waming and climate change?
 
Perhaps I'm allergic to rabbits.

Should I add the hay fever pills to the pills in my compartmented pill box?

It would make sense, but then again it would be an admission of defeat.

I'd be branding myself as a hay fever sufferer. 

As someone who suffers from chronic rhinitis. I like that word. Makes me think of rhinos. I guess it's all to do with noses. 

Rhinoplasty:  that's what Michael Jackson had done again and again until the poor, overworked member caved in.

There's something awesome about the realisation that from now on until forever you will always have to do something or other.

Even if the something or other is as minor as taking a  pill.

It reminds me of when I first got glasses.

I was 20. I was in some medieval church looking up at the corbels (some things never change) and I suddenly realised I couldn't focus without squinting and I'd have to get my eyes tested. 

A life changing experience. Nothing would ever be quite the same again. 

I adapted quickly to wearing glasses. I like having them. They're a prop, something to fiddle with, look over the top of, push to the top of my head like I'm Sophia Loren. 

An extension of the body.

A prosthesis

It's been suggested I wear contacts. 

No way. 

Or have laser treatment.

Get lost!

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Could be.

But how do you find out what it is that's causing it?

I'm taking generic ceterzine hydrochloride tablets that we bought at a discount in bulk off the Intenet. I'm not noticing any side effects.

[silent-mouse.livejournal.com]

The doctors can run a "scratch tests" on you - I think that's what they are called, and they are really just bunch of scratches on your arm with stuff put on every one of them. Though when I had it I appeared not to be allergic to anything at all. So my "rhino" stays unexplained, for 5 years now I think.. (Where's that nasal spray? Must remember to renew my prescription!)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

:( That sounds like something I'd go a long way round to avoid.

I hate needles....

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I hate needles too, but it really is no big deal. It's nowhere near having blood tests...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Aaaargh...*runs to hide under the table*....

[jfs.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine who is a biochemist and who suffers a lot from hayfever switches the brand of her anti-hayfever medication on a regular basis - every two to three months, I think.

According to her experiences and study, if you take the same brand repeatedly, it reduces in effectiveness.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I can believe that.

But we just bought a bulk supply of these particular pills so I think I'm stuck with them.

[richenda.livejournal.com]

>>>>But how do you find out what it is that's causing it?

i had the skin test in about 1966 and then had a course of injections.
In about 1973 I gave up on the injections and started noting what was around - trees, flowers, animals, whenever symptoms began.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Now that's a much better way of doing things.