Now Crayons. You wouldn’t really be the T.o.M poster boy if you couldn’t at least try the woodspice hmmmm? No I say, NO! A real posterboy can use ANY flavor of T.o.M. And on any bodypart no less! Oh yes…slather even the fragrant-yet-still-very-manly woodspice stick all over your naughty-bits if you are the REAL posterboy! That’s right, and no hives or panic attacks allowed!! ::evil laugh:: I didn’t think so… the title is mine, I won’t share it! Yet. Maybe tomorrow. ::runs away, curious scent of woodspice lingering behind::
dantheman, good to hear you got some meds. Crayons and I notice there’s no T.o.M in that bag o’goodies of yours. You don’t know what your missing.
Soon as I get a chance - working at home today - I’ll go to the store and get this script filled. Ain’t it amazing that this thread has three pages? I thought it would get a couple responses, since it was basically a whine.
Naw, it’s the motherly instinct - or, more appropriately, the parenting instinct - kicking in for people. They see someone in a situation with which they might be able to help. Maybe they were in the situation themselves, or maybe their kids were, or someone they know was.
I think most people who have experienced the suffering of others are sympathetic or empathic to their condition. When I see someone hurting or in pain, it often invokes similar feelings in myself.
I will never forget my first experience with poison ivy. I had it on every square inch of my flesh. (Huge crusty sores all over my body that oozed and leaked and itched to high heaven…good lord, I was miserable for several days)
I had never developed a rash from it before. Then one summer I found myself in the middle of some and thought, “no problem”. Well, that was a mistake. I’ve had it many times since then and have learned to control it fairly well. So, whenever I see another with it…I shudder and can truly understand their agony.
I hope you fair well Dan and trust me if you ever have anything like this occur again. While it’s probably always best to see your doctor, what I suggested will at least get you by until you are able to do so.
It does? I didn’t see it among the varieties at the drugstore.
Anyway, one should never wholly trust what other people have to say (nondoctors), only because what works for one person may not work for another; indeed, one might have an adverse reaction. So when I ask for advice, I’ll try it with a certain amount of skepticism. I did, after all, get the benadryl - but it didn’t seem to do anything other than make me sleepy.
Speaking only for myself … I am looking for sympathy points when I need to whine about something in the future. Helping you out here means you need to help me out later.
See? I told you it would help you sleep … And FTR, I told my husband that if he ever buys that Axe stuff I will have no choice but to divorce him and sue for custody of the cats. He might not get a rash from it, but I am afraid I will go into some sort of psychosomatic anaphylactic shock from it.
I must also confess that I’m an idiot. I have a weakness to medicines that make one drowsy. If it says, “may make you drowsy,” that means it’ll knock me out dead for 12 hours. If it says, “Will make you sleep,” it means I’ll be dead.
Same with me. It’s like that Denis Leary bit about NyQuil. The same applies to me and anything that “may cause drowsiness.” My labels should say - “Hey! You! With the face! Stop what you’re doing and go to bed! I mean it! Go to bed, go directly to bed, do not pass ‘Go,’ etc.”
Although, on the upside, when I take a Benadryl, I sleep straight through the night, in spite of my husband’s and cats’ attempts to snore me into oblivion. If I take a Benadryl AND two Tylenol, I can sleep through ANYTHING (I once fell asleep at a FRAT PARTY thanks to that combination).
Yes, my cats snore. LOUDLY. Worse than my husband, even, and he is 6’3" and about 275 lbs., so you can imagine what HIS snoring sounds like. And no, it wasn’t a very good frat party. But STILL.
That’s odd, there is no non-drowsy formula product listed at the Benadryl website. Are you maybe thinking of another brand? Generally, if a non-prescription allergy or cold medicine claims it’s non-sedating then it does not contain an antihistamine. (The exceptions are the newer OTC antihistamines such as Claritin and Alavert.) If it contains diphenhydramine (Benadryl) or chlorpheniramine maleate (Dimetapp), it will make you drowsy.
That is, it will make you drowsy unless you’re one of the folks who reacts in a paradoxical way to traditional antihistamines. (Some people get hyped up rather than sedated.)
Maybe they discontinued it, I know for sure it is/was available at Wal-Mart at one time. I take a generic diphenhydramine. It doesn’t make me sleepy at all and I usually take two at a time. Matter of fact it’s kinda like what Amanita is saying. Although it’s not like I’m speeding or anything.
Corn starch is an ingredient in many powders. I started using it because regular powders contain a “zinc” something or other, I forget…anyway, it aggravates the rash (on me). Pure corn starch works great (for me) and everyone else I’ve told, that tried it at least once. They won’t buy anything else now.
I was just trying to help. I hope you are better now.
