I Pit my Sinuses. Why does Og hate me?

The BBQ Pit
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I’ve had allergies all my life, since i was 2.

Now that we’ve had these 3 or 4 hurricanes in Florida still up all these unknown icky airborn things, I feel like i’m dying. I was a good girl and went to doctor. This started with ear bleeding. Then doc smiles and hands me some new allergy pill.

It doesn’t do jack. I can really sneeze 500 times a day, and FILL UP, not just use, half a box of kleenex in a day. OK, so Astelin is “great stuff”. My ass, its nothing. Try Rhinocort, it works for most people, its like spraying water in my nose, i get NOTHING. (total of 3 visits to doc in last 3 weeks).

OK, so now we pop pills. 3am, when i wake from not being able to breathe and a huge need to blow, i decide on Benedril.

OK, so now at 7:30 am, I take 2 Sudafeds, guaranteed for tiny speedy boost to get up and start work.

And I snort the Astelin like a good girl. Today I was adventurous and tried a Lordatone after dinner. Dunno wtf good it’ll do, but, can’t hurt.

So at 10pm i decide, hey, let just try some acetaminophen. Why? well, its the only pill i havn’t ingested in the last 24 hours. None the others worked.

WHY is ths so hard? I’ve been to an allergist and he said i was in the top 5% of his all time difficult to treat patients. His way of fixing this is puttin me on prednisone for months at a time. (Yes, after being on weekly shots for almost 2 years) YA, like i want more of that shit in my body.

I’m ready to call Benny Hinn. How the hell can i have allergies so much more worse than normal people? I just wanna be normal.

I wanna poke holes in my ear drums to release the pressure and yank out both my eyeballs. Sometimes I just want to push in my eyeballs till they reach the back of my head.

I’m so sick, i’m missing the obvious. Help. Why cant our advanced medical technology simply treat this? its just a swollen sinus and snot? this isnt brain surgery.

OH, and i dont go outside ever, just to car and back. Own no pets, have a very clean house, etc. I’m positive this round is from the stuff in the air from hurricanes breaking up all the trees.

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Are you a pharmacist? Do you have a PDR?

Why in the name of ghu are you randomizing OTC and script meds, dosages and times? If you are paying for an allergist, follow his directions. If he has you on scriped meds, follow his treatment plan. Do you actually know what will happen interactionwise if you take benedryl followed within a fairly short time by sufaded with a kicker of astelin? I sure as heck dont…though I do know that you may possibly be suffering the worlds worse case of antihistamine rebound known to humankind… :dubious:

How about discussing your personalized grab anything you think might work treatment plan with your allergist and see what he says…

My treatment? humibidLA as an humectant, lots of water/chicken soup/hot steamy peppermint/ginger tea and nasonex and strictly following the treatment schedule. Will knock out my snotfullness during pollen attack season, or nuke the symptoms of a headcold and leave me symptom free for the entire 10-14 day run of the illness provided I follow it anally. Humectant to liquify the snot, nasonex to supress the internal swelling, tea and chicken soup because it is hot and steamy, and adds moisture to the sinus cavity [and is yummy] and the liquids for the humectant to liquify the snot.

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I’m still sleepy. I’ve only had one cuppa joe. There’s something in my eye. And I coughed as I read the thread title.

I thought it said, “I Pit my Sinuses. Why my Dog ate me.”

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Who the hell is “Og”? Did you mean “God” but are afraid to say it? Are you 6 years old?

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I said Og cause that’s what people seem to do on this web site. No, I’m not 6, I’m not afraid to say God. Christ, some people…

And yes, I am under the care of a GP, and yes, he said I should take every damn drug I took. No, there were no bad things that could happen with the combination of any of the drugs I was taking.

I’ve had allergies for 36 years. This is all same shit, different day. It’s really not that complicated. The otc meds i took were antihistimines, decongestants and pain relievers.

And for the update, I went to GP today, and got 2 more new drugs. Then I got 5 vials of blood taken. Then I went to specialist. And he said chuck the drugs the GP gave me and to take one other pill. In 3 days I add the snort drug back into my routine. He guarantees I’ll be good to go.

All this shit is because of the hurricanes in Florida. After Charley came, the stores I visit for my job had no electricity. I was in one store that went a week without electricity and I could smell the stench of mold and mildew.

So, 2 doctors in one day, both with degrees, gave me conflicting information. I’m going to follow specialists advice. Obviously all the other medication the GP told me to take wasn’t working. Not real sure why the GP would have me continue taking all those meds when 6 weeks has gone by and they didn’t work.

Thanks for listening and have a nice day, god dammit

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I know exactly how you feel, Ravenous Lady. I’m 24 and I’ve had terrible allergies since I was 2, as well. Absolutely nothing seems to give really significant help - it’s like treating an amputated limb with a band-aid. I’m allergic to grass, mold, ragweed, oak and elm trees, goldenrod, and probably some other things they don’t test for. I started taking shots when I was 5, though, and it’s seemed to be the only thing that has kept the migraines, dizziness and bronchitis at bay. This year, after all this time and thousands of shots, I found out my dust and animal allergies had completely dissapeared.

You didn’t mention if you were on shots, so you might want to try if you’re not. They don’t work for everyone, but it’s worth a go to save some suffering. Good luck.

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Same here… plus dust, pollen, mildew, cats, etc. And it’s always worse this time of year. I used to get shots too, when I was a kid. But I couldn’t afford them now. And at the moment I can’t even afford my allergy prescription (which barely works anyway). My nose actually hurts as if I had broken it, I’m blowing it so much.

Allergies suck :frowning:

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Ya, I did the shots for about 3 years. They did seem to work, my last skin test showed I was no longer allergic to dust. Whoa, dust is ok? Never imagined that was possible. I love to clean, and I always strong armed someone else to dust.

I recommend shots to anyone who hasn’t tried them and has insurance. I wished my mother put me on shots when I was a kid. Would have saved me much misery.

Since I was able to breathe all of June, July and August with my windows open, the allergist said I was ok. If anyone out there has allergies, they know, you can’t live and breathe with the windows open. Never. In 30 years i have never been able to open the windows, let alone leave them open all night.

Just being expoxed to that high level of mold/mildew spores that one day set me off. And hasn’t helped me continuing to go into stores with no power last 2 weeks. And I learned my lesson, next time I smell that strong of an allergen smell, I will skip that job. Wasn’t worth working 2 hours in that store so I could miss 4 days of work and spend $275 on doctors, drugs and tests.

Stupid hurricanes, stupid allergies.

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I know how you feel. Course, I don’t know JUST how you feel becuase my sinus have been clogged for 10 months. But I know how you feel. Maybe come up north till the hurricanes have stopped. Then you only get dead leaves and such. Much better then all that down in Florida. Stupid hurricanes and allergies.
beats hurricanes and allergies with a stick

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More (hopefully) helpful advice: I had the whole whack of allergies (cats, pollen, dust, grass, etc) most of my life, I could never stray far from a Kleenex box, any time of year.

I saw an allergist and he was rather unhelpful, he wanted to give me shots but the cost and hassle of them made me look elsewhere.

So I went to a naturopath and she told me to give up dairy, completely. Which was monumentally difficult but I did, and it has made a massive difference. My cat allergy seems to have worsened (I never thought such a thing was possible) but otherwise I only sneeze and sniffle when I’ve been eating cheese - if I don’t have any dairy, I’m fine.

If you don’t believe me, just try it for a week or so (be strict! NO dairy!) and see if it makes a difference for you. It is hard to turn down pizza but it’s really worth it.

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OH cowgirl, I know you’re right. I’m allergic to dairy, not lactose intolerant. Pizza is my favorite food in the whole world. I dont eat a drop of dairy ever of anything else but pizza. Did I mention I eat a lot of pizza? ::sneezes:: Probably eat 5 pizza meals a week.

Ya, ok, I’ll deal with this, but you’re right.

Great, so now I need to focus on really exercising and giving up pizza. I gotta make up some reward thing to get myself to do this. Just better health is not what I mean, I want a trinket, trip or something FUN as a reward.

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I’ve had sinus issues for awhile.

IANAD, but my ENT is big on sinus irrigation…something like this (in addition to prescribed meds as indicated). I’ve had pretty good success with it, FWIW.
Hope things look up for ya…chronic sinus problems suck hairy donkey balls.

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I was a vegan for three years. If it affected my allergies in any way, I didn’t notice.

I forgot to mention the time my allergies nearly killed me. I mentioned that I’m allergic to cats. Well in particular I’m allergic to wet cats, and also in particular I’m allergic to hairy cats. So you can imagine the fun I had when I went over to my Persian-owning friend’s house on a rainy day. Anaphylactic shock, baby! To this day I still run screaming from wet or hairy cats. shudder

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mmm … pizza has been the downfall of many …

Anaphylactic shock? :eek: Really? Is your usual cat allergy of the sneezy, runny nose type?

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It’s an SDMB in-joke. Some dumbass wrote “og” instead of “of” several times in a post (e.g., “son og God”), and it kinda snowballed from there.

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Yeah, normally I just get very congested (and my eyes itch if I’m stupid enough to touch them after touching a cat). I’ve never had a reaction that bad to anything else, before or since … the time I got hives all over my body after taking an aspirin was a distant second.

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It all started here.

See racinchiki’s posts.

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OG is the ghod of this forum. All Dopers pay homage to OG or OG will get pissed.