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OT: Allergies

JoeTex
JoeTex
Other topic Allergies
Does any one else have allergies that make them feel crazy? You take a benedryl and everything goes back to normal except you are now drowsy.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Benedryl can really make me feel whacked out in the brain so I go with Zyrtec because it doesn't have any side effects for me. I have learned to be really careful with allergy meds because some of them have ephedrine in them or something like that that makes me feel super speedy but not in a good way.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hi Joe!

I'm partly living on benedryl right now with all of this pollen! It works! The sleepy feeling is sooooo worth it to me but it does suck. I sneeze non stop right now--itchy eyes, etc. I also have asthma so I'm using my inhaler a lot more lately..... (lil sigh) but the weather is to die for!

We have 3 cats too so that doesn't help either...

It'll pass and then we will be sweating our butts off!
deleted_user
deleted_user
Sinus & allergy meds make me go buggo! hee hee..

The only thing that ever worked for me was Zyrtec D but that raises my blood pressure so I had to stop taking it. We have HORRID pollen in Georgia, everything is yellow...and I know this is gonna sound crazy & countryfied and all that..but...I have been rubbing some vicks vapor rub under my nose at night before I go to bed and it has been working to clear my sinuses. It really has helped bunches. And no medicine head...