oh no I am going to sneeze again
29 Dec 2024 07:37 pmUmm so as of just today I keep sneezing, lots and lots. I'd say I've had like ten sneezing spells today, maybe?
This seems like it should be indicative of an allergen, but how could I have got newly exposed to an allergen when I haven't left the house since the 23rd?
I hope I didn't somehow get covid from one of the relatives, although nobody was sick recently... but I can't find any indication of recent variants known to start with sneezing. And I have to admit that that sounds more like an allergy than like an infection of the airways...
I have never had formal allergy testing. I PROBABLY have a dust allergy because I live with post nasal drip all the time and so does my dad and my sister got the testing when she was little and it was dust for her. I definitely am violently allergic to at least one perfume ingredient, as well as hypersensitive to many other perfumes. I am not aware of any hay or pollen or food allergies or anything like that. I know you can suddenly become allergic to something when you weren't before, but... huh.
This seems like it should be indicative of an allergen, but how could I have got newly exposed to an allergen when I haven't left the house since the 23rd?
I hope I didn't somehow get covid from one of the relatives, although nobody was sick recently... but I can't find any indication of recent variants known to start with sneezing. And I have to admit that that sounds more like an allergy than like an infection of the airways...
I have never had formal allergy testing. I PROBABLY have a dust allergy because I live with post nasal drip all the time and so does my dad and my sister got the testing when she was little and it was dust for her. I definitely am violently allergic to at least one perfume ingredient, as well as hypersensitive to many other perfumes. I am not aware of any hay or pollen or food allergies or anything like that. I know you can suddenly become allergic to something when you weren't before, but... huh.
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Date: 30 Dec 2024 12:34 am (UTC)Sorry to tell you.
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Date: 31 Dec 2024 12:58 pm (UTC)Mine usually start with a sore throat! I've never sneezed this much for this long in my entire life before.
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Date: 2 Jan 2025 07:43 am (UTC)This time I attempted to rinse the sinuses with a couple of those little sealed capsules of sterile saline and it seemed to work, which does seem to support the idea that something was physically irritating them.
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