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Allergies
Topic Started: Mar 29 2016, 12:38 AM (281 Views)
Oscar
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My pollen allergies hit me full force the other day. Its an annual thing with a month of tiredness, tears, snot, itches and pain.

I take loratadin pills for it, it mostly works. Without it it really would be unbearable. However.

One year I managed to become immune to said allergies without the use of medicine. It was a case of full, maximum exposure. Sleeping outside, being outdoors, I had but one or two days of shivering, snot and tears before it ceased to have any effect upon me.

Unfortunately that did not persist. As is to say that the next year the allergies were back.

It is nevertheless good to know that it is possible to go through and overcome your allergies.
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crow
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The pollen from surrounding trees is getting so heavy now, that it crunches underfoot when I walk on the deck.
It coats the windshield of my car, when it is inside the carport. It gets everywhere, and certainly it gets inside my poor old lungs.
My wife and I suddenly hear weird noises, and cast about for the source, only to realize it is our own plugged-up airways.
Shortness of breath, irritability, burning eyes, thirty sneezes in a row, some of them double-sneezes...

The forest is a wonderful thing, but the trees have had enough of people, and are trying, in the only way they can, to discourage their presence.
People respond by cutting down the forest.
It's a war I would very much like not to be any part of, but this is our home, and my wife loves it, anyway.
For as long as we live, the trees, deer, raccoons, birds, and other small life, will have sanctuary.
That's the plan, anyway.
"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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That's a good, down-to-earth definition of heroism right there:
Doing something, that is apparently not to your advantage at all - except that it is, but in a deeper sense. It's for the love.

I'm very lucky not to have any allergies, but on the other hand, I would love to live by a forest. I sometimes feel allergic to people.

Maybe some day.
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Living by a forest is probably the best thing, as opposed to inside it.
Then again, how long before that forest gets demolished?
There are very few places one can really be at peace, any more, where a human could reasonably live.
The last frontier, I guess, is inside oneself.

Ironically, that's the place that really scares people. Far more than a few bears and cougars.
Or allergies, to those oblivious fortunates who have never known them.
"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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Mar 30 2016, 12:54 AM
That's a good, down-to-earth definition of heroism right there:
Doing something, that is apparently not to your advantage at all - except that it is, but in a deeper sense. It's for the love.

I'm very lucky not to have any allergies, but on the other hand, I would love to live by a forest. I sometimes feel allergic to people.

Maybe some day.
You are allready lives in a forest. maybe you'll realized that all human are trees and that we never left the garden of Eden. Maybe we are plastic trees right now, but plastic cames from trees, maybe a phantasmagorical tree etc, etc, but in a way what is a tree? A big mystery.

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If you discover what is pollen, maybe you'll undertand why you are allergic to it.
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Maybe I am aware of something that others are not. A tree is not a human, and a human is not a tree.
They share certain component parts that are similar, even identical, but the one is certainly not the other.
You couldn't build a house from humans, or heat it with humans.
I admit, I've never tried to do either one, but that's because I already know it would be futile.

I already know what pollen is, and that in reasonable doses, I am not especially allergic to it.
In fact, I used to regularly eat pollen, as a food supplement.
Tons and tons of it, however, tends to have an undesirable effect upon me.

Edited by crow, Mar 30 2016, 02:08 PM.
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It's really getting to me, right now. Allergies set off a weird reaction where the sense of smell becomes magnified 10x or more, and usually innocuous things become foul-smelling and unbearable.
Irritation is a symptom. Quick to anger. Intolerant.
I can only hope for a lessening of symptoms, as the summer progresses.


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Tucken takes Loratadin for allergies. I take Cetirizine.
They say one will work for certain people, while the other will not, and vice-versa.
How does one know which is which?
I ask because neither one works very well, for me, and it's difficult to tell which is better.
Does anyone other than Tucken take these antihistamines?
How did you decide which to take?

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Oscar
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I doubt its of any help but loratadin is the only thing I ever used. Its not very helpful but it makes the season less difficult. With it I get through without going crazy from itching eyes so I never bothered to investigate any alternative drugs. I stay away from eye drops they are no good for me.
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After considerable experimentation, I conclude that Cetirizine is - for me - the lesser of two evils.
The key is not to make a regular habit of it, or indeed of any drug.
For every benefit there are liabilities, and side-effects can take some time to manifest, and happen gradually enough to slip through unnoticed.

My inhaler is a good case in point. I have to consciously decline to use it unless I get desperate. Pollen is falling thick and fast right now, and there's only so much I can do to minimize its effect.

Edited by crow, May 8 2017, 11:09 AM.
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Oscar
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What are the side effects of cetrizine and loratadin if you notice any? I'm on loratadin now as the second wave of pollen are about to hit full force. I'll take one a day for a month like I always do. Maybe two a day if it gets bad..

I tried cetrizine in march but it seemed less effective to me.
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This herbal product seems quite miraculous in my quest to find something, anything, that delivers some relief from allergies.
It seems expensive, until you realize the actual relief from endless suffering, and that's very valuable indeed.
First time I tried a capsule, within a half-hour, the difference knocked me sideways.
Never before, with the exception of an asthma inhaler, have I found anything that actually did anything obvious.

For as long as this is available, I'll make use of it. Testing is ongoing, and it may turn out to ultimately be less useful than it now seems.
But for now: a Godsend!

"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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crow
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From the above herbal remedy, I became familiar with the herb Lobelia. A mysterious substance indeed.
Google it and learn more. Try 'Lobelia Smoking Cessation'.
Amazingly, smoking this eliminates the desire to smoke tobacco, and promotes healing of the lungs at the same time.
Stops coughing, thins mucus, calms the nerves...
It works in similar fashion to nicotine, but without the nasty and addictive nature of that well-known poison.
Smoking it is acceptable as a substitute for tobacco, so even if you still do that, it's a fair change.

This stuff reduces my asthma dramatically, and is reputed by some to be preferable to regular inhalers. Quite a find.
Whoever would have imagined that smoking could ever actually do your lungs good?
That's Mystery!

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Oscar
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That's cool. I'll see if I can find some for next year. Lobelia is a nice flower I bet you could grow it yourself and dry it.
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I discover that Lobelia is potentially dangerous stuff; very powerful.
It's quite possible to OD on it, and that's not pleasant.
However, with the potential danger comes enormous benefit: my chronic cough has practically disappeared in only a few days, and asthma much reduced.
Like everything else I do, I tend to do it to extremes, and so I get exactly what I deserve.
A pinch, here and there, like salt, is the means to the ends.

"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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Allergies themselves, I find, are not the worst thing about allergies.
It's the attendant asthma that makes it so difficult, and so potentially dangerous.
Do away with the asthma, and the allergies are bearable.
Lobelia does that.



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