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.

I live with cats, to whom I am allergic, so I take 2 Benadryl and 1 Claritin every single night. I added Flonase over the winter when it seemed that working from home and being cooped up with the cats was making things much worse (versus previously being out of the house for 10 hours a day, 4 days a week).

I feel like adding Flonase has helped stave off the worst of the pollen vortex effects (SO FAR), but my sinuses are pissed today. (I think that mostly the rapid change in barometric pressure, not allergies.)