Allergies, my Achilles heel. This is a rather humorous and ironic entry considering my last posting was all about camping and the great outdoors... And now I am going to rant about my insidious disease, or whatever it is, especially since it consumed me my last day of camping.
I started getting allergies around 20 years old. Or at least that's when I put the pieces together that it was not an everlasting head cold. Around the same time is when I also got tested and the doc did the traditional needle test where they prick your skin with about 50 different, but common, allergens. My arm blew up. The doc reported my allergies were "very severe." He recommended I get biweekly shots and every year I claim I will go and get them. It has yet to happen.
Every year I fight this 4 month long allergic reaction to the outside. As spring approaches, I start to get a taste of the inevitable sinus pain that is to come. And each year I try a different defense. Last year's defense was all mental. The game plan was simple--I don't have allergies; they are all in my mind. And I still believe this to an extent. Well I had to believe it if it was gonna work. I think it helped quite a bit actually. The more I believed I did not have allergies the less power they had.
Through my experience I have been able to compose a personal prescription that I will share for any of those people that be struggling. The prescription is so, if I do not get the proper sleep my body, mind is a lot more susceptible to more frequent, greater and longer attacks. I discovered this bad combo when I mixed lack of sleep with pollen. Another method to arresting this sinus crisis is to take allergy medication regularly; not just when I get an attack. I find if I build an immunity to my allergies by taking a pill regularly it is far more effective. And to finish it off, as I mentioned before, I do not have allergies!! They are just a figment of my imagination.
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Ty, i feel your pain..i suffered from allergies for 25 years, from the age of 6 I was allergic to grass, dust and many other things that were impossible to avoid. I took the weekly needles they only made me sick..nothing helped me..nothing at all. So I suffered all year long. And one day they were just gone...I was pregnant at the time, and that is the only thing I can figure that took my allergies away..the biological and emotional body change. But my body tortures me once in a while..maybe once a year, i will have a bad allergy day...but I can't handle that!! too bad pregnancy won't work for you! lol.
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