I guess flowers could be contributing as well

[cimorene]

I ran out of OTC antihistamines last week (loratidine) and it's getting a bit uncomfortable. I went over the bedroom floor with a static dust cloth but I can still smell dust in there especially, and it's maddening. I don't usually have this problem in there, and it's not like I'm usually great at dusting, so idk what changed— sinuses just annoyed by going so long without relief? I could have walked to the pharmacy on any weekday, but I don't like to contemplate more than one intimidating task at a time.

There are also flowers now (though I don't think I'm allergic to pollen probably, or not much), although I wish there were more of them. Some of our tulips are finished, and the cowslips, and the last of the daffodils, but the daylilies are opening and forget-me-nots and veronicas are open. A foxglove came back this year - in the same corner where there was one before, so it must've been planted by the old lady who owned this house at least fifteen years ago and planted so many perennials; but apparently it's biennial, so this is a descendant of the one we last saw four years ago perhaps. Possibly we should plant some more there to give them a better chance of continuing to self-seed. Also the striped tulips from the bag of 100 bulbs we planted two years ago are just at the end of their lives, and they're so cool. There are only four of them, and we would love to have more, maybe a whole bed, but I can't figure out what variety they are. I was comparing pictures at the nursery where we bought the bulbs, but they don't look quite right. They sort of look like Tulipa "Hemisphere" based on a web search, and that's a Triumph variety. (Nursery website doesn't list those, but they might not have sold them last year?)


Kind of close shot of a striated red and white tulip in our yard

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Hope you feel better soon! You have been through so much the last couple of years and I hope you are getting enough anxiety meds. I am so hopeful about the cat progress.

ALL THE HUGS.

[cimorene]

I really wish anxiety medication were as easy as painkillers! Anti-depressants are of course also for reducing anxiety (which is probably why the GP resisted my desire to decrease my dose, but also is why I would have liked to discuss trying a different one with her...), but they don't work for sudden "acute" spikes of anxiety! All that works for that are benzodiazepines, and I can't use them too much or I'll build up a tolerance and they stop working; and then if I don't use them at all they work TOO well and I get sleepy!

[princessofgeeks]

It's always something!!!

[twistedchick]

I don't know how the seasonal weather has been there, but here everything blossomed at once, so that the sheer volume of pollen/dust/damp whatever was immense. It was difficult to breathe that whole time, even when things that were flowering weren't ones I am allergic to. I hope you feel much better very soon.

[cimorene]

Oooh that's a very good point, I have heard the people around here talking about this! That could be behind my general congestion and irritated sinuses. So infuriating, sometimes I just wish I could get rid of them completely...