I really love the Nasacort. It made a huge difference for me. I'm trying to cut down my usage of it, but today I took a full dose because I know I'm going to be out weeding and stuff. But seriously, I was, like, quarantined before it, so thanks for the rec.

I had no idea there was so much flower deception in horse racing.

I know! Shocking.

I really love the Nasacort. It made a huge difference for me. I'm trying to cut down my usage of it, but today I took a full dose because I know I'm going to be out weeding and stuff. But seriously, I was, like, quarantined before it, so thanks for the rec.

Last year, my doctor gave me a prescription for Nasonex, which is pretty similar, and it worked pretty well but was really expensive. So when I saw Nasacort OTC, and found a ton of coupons for it, I figured it was worth a try, and it actually works better than the prescription did. (Plus, I worked out a way next week to get three of the 60-spray bottles for about $4. It required trading a few coupons with a friend to get enough of them, but the ones my friend wanted were for hair color, and I probably would have just thrown those out after they expired anyway.)

Nasacort has been pretty magical for me. I mean, I'm also taking Nasalcrom and Claritin and sometimes additional stuff, but introducing Nasalcort into the mix made an immediate and noticeable difference.

ETA: I'm already trying to work out when to start taking it again in the Fall, although maybe I'll just wait until my symptoms start this year (if I can get ahead of my symptoms with the Nasalcrom it's much better than if I wait, because it takes about a week to start working, but I think the Nasalcort kicked in faster)

I was mixing it at first, but at this point I'm down to Nasacort daily, and Benedryl if I'm having a particularly miserable night and need to sleep. But that's it. And the Nasacort doesn't seem to have any side effects for me at all.

I should pick up some for the DH to try.

I am at sea without work to anchor me. I wish I had my old brain back, the one I had last year.

I'm taking Nasacort and Zyrtec daily, and I'm feeling better this year than I have any other year. (Allegra actually works a bit better for me than Zyrtec does, but the Allegra pills are huge, and I choke when I try to swallow them half the time. Zyrtec doesn't work quite as well, but it comes in lemon-flavored tablets that dissolve in your mouth. I figure that a medicine that works pretty well that I actually take is better than one that works really well that I dread taking and therefore skip half the time.) I still keep some Benadryl, Sudafed, and Nasacort around for when I really need them, but that's been a lot less often this year than last year.

I had a dermatologist appointment first thing in the morning (literally -- 8:15 AM!) so I got a suspicious Thing frozen with liquid nitrogen. (Which stung quite a bit, honestly, but several hours later I can't feel it.)

Other than the Thing, which honestly the doctor is not worried about -- its status is somewhat like pre-pre-cancerous, I'm all clear, so yay?

In successful target marketing news, Doc Martens emailed me to say they were opening up a new store in Scottsdale. Unrelatedly, how much do I want these: [link] A: A lot.

I'm gonna go with yay, Theo.

My doc recommended keeping children's Benadryl with me in the dissolving table form - they are half the dosage of adult, so if I need to I can take two, and the dissolvey nature is great. Also why I prefer to take Claritin over Allegra or Zyrtex, they all work okay but Claritin's dissolve-y tabs were what I bought in my initial panicky rampage for allergy medicines at the drug store, the other two are pills.

My system is a constant stream of Nasalcrom throughout allergy season (Feb-May, Fall allergy season I am less sure of), daily Nasalcort, Claritin if my eyes are bothering me or the inside of my ears itch after I've had the daily meds, Allegra if I get to work without taking Claritin and then more symptoms hit, and Benadryl at night if it's been a rough day symptom-wise or I happen to know the pollen count is high. And I carry around an epipen and the children's Benadryl in case another severe attack hits me. So far have not needed, knock wood.

Hooray for the all-clear, Theo!

Those boots are almost too awesome for me to comprehend.