Ian
Notorious member
I used to be bomb-proof. Then I outgrew my youth and it seems every few years something else triggers my immune system. Cedar makes me very irritable and eventually by the end of the season miserably depressed. This year I watched the buds and counts carefully and started taking Claritin at first sign, before my histamine cells degranulated. I actually have been doing quite well on the Claritin, way better and almost no side-effects compared to Allegra or Zyrtec. The oak usually gets me bad in the spring, but the past two years I've been taking a homeopathic drop for that and the effect borders on miraculous. A few years ago I added ragweed (Texas giant ragweed or Bloodweed) to the list of things that bring misery (depression, extreme irritability, fatigue), still working on a treatment for that. Then there's mold. Not sure when mold started bothering me because the effect is subtle but generally it makes me tired and grumpy. I'm normally tired and grumpy, so its s little hard to tell if its mold or my chronic allergy to the stupidity I have to deal with constantly at work. No cure for that one, either.