We are having a storm. It's been grumbling and rumbling all afternoon. Sometimes it sounds like someone has dumped a load of cooking pans at my back porch.
My allergies have been grumbling and rumbling for several days now. My eyes hurt and are dry, my breathing is raspy, throat scratchy, nose stuffy.
I read this morning that the allergy season is particularly bad this year on the east coast because of lack of rain. Hopefully the current storm will ease things a tad, at least for a day or so. That might be long enough for me to gather my strength for the next onslight of budding trees.
I take Singulair constantly for my allergies and this morning went ahead and added back Zyrtec. I stopped the Zyrtec last fall because I didn't seem to need it.
These are very expensive drugs and each one costs me $50 for 30 pills. And that's with insurance.
I use eyedrops for my dry and painful eyeballs. I use Nasacort for my sinuses (it costs me $50 a month, too).
But there is nothing I can do directly to help my left ear, and it is my ear which is troubling me most at the moment. I do not have vertigo as I did last year at this time, but I do have an overall sense of feeling out of balance. It disconcerts me when this happen, and storms intensify the feeling. I actually *feel* in my ear the bolts of lightning when they are close. It is rather strange.
To all my fellow allergy suffers, God Bless You for each sneeze.
I sympathise! My wee sister spends much of summer in tears - literally - because of her allergies. I'm lucky and have escaped this.
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