Well, that was...something

[rolanni]

And so...I'm slightly (very slightly) allergic to...dogs...and some few weedy things...and a couple varieties of mold, but, really, who isn't? I am not, mind you, sensitive enough to any of these things that the doctor was willing to use the word "allergic," preferring "irritant." While this is Good News, it leaves open to wonder Just What Exactly Is Going On. Sigh. Nose drops for four weeks, and regroup. If no better, then I get to have my sinuses x-rayed. Somehow, this proposition fails to fill me with joy...

This was my very first time having an allergy test, which made me a minor celebrity with staff, and I must say that I have a whole new appreciation for the Death of A Thousand Cuts. Happily for me, I had taken along blink by Malcolm Gladwell, which is utterly absorbing. I can't wait to get back to it.

In other news, we had a thunderstorm this evening; the sun is out now, and the sky as blue as if it had never rained...

Comments

[marniferous.livejournal.com]

Bummer! Glad you're enjoying blink though.

I have two holistic-ish suggestions,
if you're open to that:

1. Have you tried a neti pot? (with which you rinse out your sinuses with warm salt water on a daily basis.) Rinses out the irritants so they don't...irritate. I'm lucky not to have pollen allergies, but other chronic sinusy stuff, and when i actually do the NP it helps a lot.

2. Have you heard of NAET, which is an allergy elimination acupuncture process?

http://www.naet.com/subscribers/what.html

I know time and money for these sorts of things is not highly available....
still, i wanted to mention it.
I've had pretty strong results with things like food allergies, mold, soap....

And when it comes to figuring out What Exactly Is Going On, i'm personally a bigger fan of good kinesiology (muscle testing) than allopathic approaches, which are more like talking to a computer - it can only yes/no answer the question you've asked, and if you didn't think to ask the key question (it would never have occurred to me that i was allergic to soap!) it can't really help you get there.

Or Neilmed squeeze-bottle

[jane-barfly.livejournal.com]

I found that Neti pots require me to Breathe Funny While Contorting My Neck. Not an all-around glowing success. I get the same sinus-rinse effect from the Neilmed squeeze bottles. Not amazingly comfortable, but much much better than sinuses stuffed with cotton-wool.

Laura