Darla - I'm so sorry you're having issues with your sinuses. I have allergies really bad and when I start having a flair up I pick up some Airborne and chug some of that 2x/day. As a general rule now I try not to take any extra steroids and try to fight my sickness as I did before I was diagnosed with Addison's.

A few things I have found that help relieve my nasal allergies are as follows:
- Quercetin - it's a natural antihistamine found in the skin of onions and apples but you can buy this in tablet form. It doesn't have the general drowsiness that over the counter antihistamines have.
- Saline Nasal Spray (Ocean Spray is how it's typically marketed). Flush my nasals out with this all through out the day
- Probiotics. - I always forget to add this into my supplement list on here, but I do take daily probiotics to help my body maintain a good level of friendly bacteria in my body. If I feel an infection coming on then I up my probiotic intake.

I hope these tips help you with your allergies and I hope you are able to find some answers when you see the Lymes specialist. Have a great weekend!

- Kristen

Kristen's advice is really good; I follow basically the same regiment for sinus issues and it works quite well. You will find the quercetin is a wonderful natural antihistamine.

Darla, I find there are times though when you do need to stress dose. For example, I started with a small cold and I was using my normal natural treatments and this time it did not work and the cold rapidly dropped into my lungs and I had an infection. In this case I definitely stress dosed which helped me turn the corner on healing.

Thanks I appreciate your input. I think Im going try and not increase steroids and see how it goes. I live on antihisamines nasal steroids sudafed benadryl. But I wanst sure about increasing the cortef. i gues it depends . I do take probiotics . Thanks again . God Bless Darla

I suggest you adjust your steroids based on how you feel. Stress dosing for short periods (3 days) won't hurt you. I find sometimes that it need a extra boost of steroid for a day to get my body over a hump if I'm fighting a small infection. I think my body needs the steroid to cope with the stress, so sometimes withholding the steroid can make me feel bad longer. Taking too much over long periods is what causes the problems, not periodic boosts to help with small stressors.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot... I found this really neat food diary application on my phone. It lets you track your calorie intake and exercise expenditures every day. You can set it for the amount of weight you want to loose per week. I've only used it for a week, but so far I've lost 1lb (which is what I set it for). The site is www.myfitnesspal.com.

Cokecpl - I LOVE myfitnesspal. This is my second week using it and I lost 2 pounds in my first week :) It is the most user friendly calorie/exercise tracking website I have found. So I second myfitnesspal to everyone, it's awesome!