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[pne]

Went to the doctor's this morning (ENT/耳鼻咽喉専門医) to have a look at the fact that I'm sometimes short of breath. She had the assistant do an allergy test with me... and I reacted to nearly everything :P. So I can count on having problems from pollen all through summer and then from mite droppings in autumn...

But what brought out the most reaction was grains; the others were less severe. So maybe I'm still "safe". And at least the symptoms are treatable, and the doctor said that there are sprays for the nose that don't start being less effective (because your body gets used to them) or start destroying your nose after a week -- though they cost about four times as much. And I'll probably need a special cover for my mattress; have to see whether my health insurance will cover it. Ideally, they would pay for a cover for Stella's mattress as well; not much use covering just the one!

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[haela.livejournal.com]

My allergies are really bad. I started out with minimal allergies and they got worse. They told me in 97 that I'm allergic to pine.. I thought they were crazy, but then a few months ago I smeared some pine on my face by accident and I broke out in a rash. Talk about a delayed reaction! It only took what, five years for the allergy to start acting up?

[pne.livejournal.com]

It was kind of depressing when the doctor's assistant went over my arm and wrote down which substances I was allergic to ... and it was pretty much all of them! *sigh* Oh, great.

Thankfully, I "only" had strong reactions to grains and grasses and most of the other stuff was relatively mild.

The mite allergy is kind of annoying, though, since it means that my nose swells up when I go into the bedroom and so I have difficulty getting to sleep sometimes since I can't always breathe properly.

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[haela.livejournal.com]

Claritin is a wonderful thing. :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Claritin? *googles* Ah, loratadine.

Yes, my ENT doctor prescribed me that, but I'm not going to start taking it for another couple of weeks -- my dermatologist wanted to give me an allergy test for something else then, and taking antihistamines before an allergy test doesn't make a lot of sense :)

But I'll be interested to see how much it helps. I guess it works for you ;)

[haela.livejournal.com]

It worked wonders for me! I wish they had invented it earlier in my life so I could have avoided many sinus problems. :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Cool! That's something to look forward to then. My dermatologist's appointment is next Tuesday and I guess I'll start taking them after that.

I wonder how life will be without a stuffy nose and itchy eyes ;)

[haela.livejournal.com]

I can only describe it as it feels like looking through glasses for the first time when you have had blurry vision all your life.... when the allergies subside, everything seems so clear and crisp and wonderful. :)