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Friday night i chose not to take my antihistamine. Usually it seems to last over twenty-four hours, so i wasn't surprised that yesterday i didn't notice any difference. This morning i am slightly congested, left side blocked. I grew up breathing through my mouth. Mom and my sister (the only ones to compare notes) also do the same. I'm pretty sure the chronic rhinitis is shared by us all, and that it affected us at an early age. Decongestants like sudafed were all i knew as options, and they made me nuts. I'd generally have a runny nose for an hour or so after waking up and then it would "settle down." I hadn't really breathed through my nose ever, so it was just the runny nose that bothered me.
When i had my first all-body reaction, Christmas 2003, i believe, I was given claritin and then zyrtec. Claritin subdues my sense of taste if i take it consistently for a few weeks. The Zyrtec had a slight sedative affect, but i put up with it because of the itching. The rhinitis went away as well: a marvel! Would i put up with it for just breathing? I might now. I'm getting Allegra instead, though, which seems stronger but with no other effects. I'd like to not be taking antihistamines for the rest of my life, but will.
My sister talked to my mom about it, and my mom won't take the antihistamines. There's a value i learned growing up that basically translated to if you can get by without help, get by. It's a survivalist attitude, there's not much about finding joy or having fun. I'm slowly learning that it's the little things that matter, that a quality life is a fine goal. To breathe freely, deeply is a fundamental quality of being well. I can get by if i need to: by why should i "get by" when there's a choice?
One of the many symptoms i'd hoped would clear up with this diet is the rhinitis. It still seems present. Also, some of the itchies seem more itchy, the site A psoriasis in particular
I'm taking a Claritin-generic now so that in a little bit i'll be able to breathe easily.
Some more new machine notes for Pennyroyal and superduper:
SuperDuper took two hours to do initial backup of root partition to a USB mirror. This -- wait, can i boot from USB? Yes! yay! (I should test at some point.) . This was roughly 50 GB as i have since installed iLife 9 (came with the machine) and the root is now at 57 GB.
I was doing stuff, including transferring files off a USB drive on the other USB port which may have caused contention.
37 min doing an initial back up of 32 GB to a USB sparse image.
When i had my first all-body reaction, Christmas 2003, i believe, I was given claritin and then zyrtec. Claritin subdues my sense of taste if i take it consistently for a few weeks. The Zyrtec had a slight sedative affect, but i put up with it because of the itching. The rhinitis went away as well: a marvel! Would i put up with it for just breathing? I might now. I'm getting Allegra instead, though, which seems stronger but with no other effects. I'd like to not be taking antihistamines for the rest of my life, but will.
My sister talked to my mom about it, and my mom won't take the antihistamines. There's a value i learned growing up that basically translated to if you can get by without help, get by. It's a survivalist attitude, there's not much about finding joy or having fun. I'm slowly learning that it's the little things that matter, that a quality life is a fine goal. To breathe freely, deeply is a fundamental quality of being well. I can get by if i need to: by why should i "get by" when there's a choice?
One of the many symptoms i'd hoped would clear up with this diet is the rhinitis. It still seems present. Also, some of the itchies seem more itchy, the site A psoriasis in particular
I'm taking a Claritin-generic now so that in a little bit i'll be able to breathe easily.
Some more new machine notes for Pennyroyal and superduper:
SuperDuper took two hours to do initial backup of root partition to a USB mirror. This -- wait, can i boot from USB? Yes! yay! (I should test at some point.) . This was roughly 50 GB as i have since installed iLife 9 (came with the machine) and the root is now at 57 GB.
I was doing stuff, including transferring files off a USB drive on the other USB port which may have caused contention.
37 min doing an initial back up of 32 GB to a USB sparse image.