In general, I'm healthy as a horse. I don't get sick. Once a year I get the flu. I don't even catch my kids' colds. My punishment for this is my year 'round sinuses and later in life I will get type 2 diabetes. It runs in my family, there is no avoiding it. (A side note, I made a comment over at Jay's. No I didn't mean I have what you have. I can't sleep at night because my brain refuses to shut off. I thought maybe caffiene works for some with add, and their brain does that, so maybe it would shut my brain off. Otherwise, I focus well and am definitely not add.)
Medicine works differently for me than it does most people. I drink coffee in the morning. One would think, like everyone else, it wakes me up. No, I drink it in hopes that one day it will do so. So, in my search for sinus medicine, I've tried pretty much every thing on the shelves. I don't usually buy it. Wouldn't you like to know why. No? I'm going to tell you anyway. Daytime sinus makes me sleepy. Night time makes me zippy, yes zippy frantic, kind of like speed. I've never actually done speed, it's been described. I have an awesome immune system. So much so, in fact, that I am immune to any sinus medication by the third dose. As I have year 'round allergies, you can imagine this sucks. Once in a great while I do come across one that will work for a week or two. This is why I won't go to a doc and try to get a prescription medication. It's expensive, and it probably won't help me for more than a week. Right now, Tylenol sinus has been working. Alavert works better.
A little background. Since I was 11 or 12 I've had sinus allergies. When I was pregnant with Mikel, my first, my sinuses suddenly stopped acting up. Your body changes with and after each pregnancy. This was a great thing. A whole year and a half with only occasional sniffles. Then comes Steven. While I was pregnant, my sinuses did act up, but not all year 'round. Steven is born, lo and behold my sinuses run amok again. However, since I have found Tylenol and Alavert to still be working at the end of the boxes I am hopeful I won't develop an immunity to them.
It's weird to have to explain to people that my sinus medication isn't working. They think I'm nuts. I'm like look, I took that shit not an hour ago. It ain't working. I almost always finished the stupid box, in hopes it would start working again. I don't know how many times I used to walk into the kitchen I worked in, and they asked me if I was high. I was 16 and never touched anything until 19. Those days are over, I did my partying in 2 years and was done. My eyes were almost always bloodshot. So were their's, but that is a whole 'nother story. Maybe I'll start telling antecdotes about being all you can be in a restaraunt. I'll probably tell you the one about that night I really was all in the restaraunt, except owner and bartender. Man, that was one crazy, frantic night. I don't know how not to work, if I'm being paid.
I think I'm weird. I'm probably not the only person who's ever developed immunities to sinus medication, but I haven't ever heard of one. Benadryl aka diphenhydramine still doesn't work. There was another but I don't remember what it is. hmm. I hope I never have an allergic reaction. I'll probably be screwed. They'll try giving me benadryl. LMAO! |