Allergies thread

[BurtReynolds]

Do you suffer from them?

Part of my disastrous move back to Austin includes the debilitating allergies I get here. 8 years in the PNW and I never got sick.

Never had to worry about allergies until my late teens.

[dad]

I do, but like you...didn't really have an issue until I moved from the northeast to Oklahoma 25+ years ago.

Now I just deal with it as best I can.

Mine aren't debilitating, but definitely a pain in the ass.

[Chris_H_2]

I’m allergic to penicillin. Does that count?

[wease]

I take a Claritin and use nose spray every day.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[JuanHamm]

I have no allergies

[96583UP]

mine have begun this season

i get hit early spring

it’s happening

live right now

burt make sure to shower before bed once that shit gets in your hair and on your pillows it’s game over

[BurtReynolds]

Bought some of those nasal breathing strips and where have these things been all my life? I'm never taking these off. My brain is now receiving too much oxygen. I'm hallucinating.

Maybe I'm the human equivalent of a pug or some other snub nosed dog.

[96583UP]

those are pretty intense

[Bammer]

Zero allergies up in this bitch

[contamination]

Bought some of those nasal breathing strips and where have these things been all my life? I'm never taking these off. My brain is now receiving too much oxygen. I'm hallucinating.

Maybe I'm the human equivalent of a pug or some other snub nosed dog.

I also discovered these few months ago. Which brand are you using? I use Breathe Right which has the spring. I also bought some Amazon strips which didn't have the spring (didn't know this when I bought them) and they're pretty much useless. I sleep much better now when I can actually breathe.

[Coach]

High tree pollen today.