allergy attack

[cellio]

I'm allergic to Pennsic. (Well, to dust and grass and pollen and weeds and...) So I take Allegra for about three weeks each year to deal with that, but don't take it the rest of the year. (I don't want to develop a resistance to it like I did to all previous allergy drugs save one [1].)

This year I started taking it on Saturday, and then went to Cooper's Lake Sunday for setup. I was fine yesterday, but today I've been congested all day. Mid-day I added Sudafed to the mix; I hope that wasn't bad but I really needed to treat the symptoms. (I take the Allegra once a day and had taken it this morning.) It took about four hours for the Sudafed to produce results.

I think this must have happened in the past, because there's Sudafed in with my use-only-at-Pennsic stuff. Now that I think about it, I remember once calling my doctor from Pennsic to ask if taking Sudafed while taking Allegra would kill me and he said it wouldn't.

I don't know if starting the Allegra earlier would help; how long does it have to be coursing through your veins to lay down a basic barrier against the nasty little allergens? With luck, writing this entry will help me remember next year to start earlier. (I'm sort of assuming that I should be taking allergy drugs (Allegra) and not cold drugs (Sudafed) as a baeline. I don't have a cold; I just have some of the symptoms.)

I should remember to ask my doctor if he can improve on this for me.

[1] Seldane. It worked gloriously, better than Allegra I think, so naturally the FDA eventually decided I couldn't have it.

Comments

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

If I could figure out how the quirk in my brain functioned, I would be revered throughout Pennsic... For the longest time, David suffered from hayfever while Dagonell did not. Yes, you're reading that correctly! My mundane modern identity had a prescription for hayfever which my medieval persona never needed. Camping with the family? Bring the tissues and meds. Pennsic? No problem! Nowadays, I'm more fortunate. It has to be a *very* heavy pollen day before I'm affected.

Weirdly enough, the effect is not undocumented. Sybil, the famous multiple personality, had it. Several of her personas had allergies that other personas didn't have. It's apparently a mental trick, but I don't know how I did it.
-- Dagonell

[cellio]

If you ever do figure out how to will away allergies with the power of your mind, please let me know! Yeah, I know, you could also sell the secret for a lot of money; I promise not to interfere with that. But you're my friend and you'll tell me, right? :-)