Showing posts with label sickness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sickness. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Ahhh... seasonal allergies! How I love thee!

After a great weekend visit with my parents, and feeling infinitely sorry for my mom, who was suffering from seasonal allergies/sinus un-fun-ness... I am now suffering from the same seasonal misery.

I was fine until Sunday, when I forgot to take my allergy medicine. I don't know why I forgot. I've been good about taking it everyday, even when I'm not having symptoms, because if I take it everyday, I won't have symptoms.

In the course of less than 24 hours I went from breathing free and clear, to being stuffed up, achey sinuses, sneezing, runny nose, eyes that feel as if they've been covered in flannel, and just general unpleasantness. BLECH! So while I can't increase my dosage on the allergy stuff, I have added some Tylenol into the mix to help with the achey feeling in my sinuses (which is making other areas of my face hurt too... namely the insides of my ears and my teeth!).

I know you're jealous. It's sexy to have a runny nose and hack so bad it sounds like you're going to cough up a lung. Oh, and sneezing is extra fun while pregnant. I won't go into detail, but all you ladies out there know what I'm talking about. Throw in being six months pregnant and the attractiveness factor really jumps up a notch.

For the time being, I'm just drinking lots of hot tea, carrying around a box of Kleenex and a tube of lipbalm, and drinking lots of water. Hopefully it will work itself out pretty soon.