Yesterday we made the move and our new home is packed with boxes a new list of to-do’s a mile long.

The new home also has carpeting which will be a first for me in 10 years. The carpeting is a few years old so hopefully it has outgassed by now. We did repaint the entire home before moving in with zero VOC paint so i hope that is also not an issue. We also used AFM’s safeseal to seal grout and tiles.

For the past 2 weeks the hydrocotisone seems to be working, otherwise i never would have made it through this moving process i don’t think. Still on the 20mg in the morning and 10mg 5 hours later. i upped the dosage to 20mg for the second dosage for the past 2 days to help get through the move.

The pollen counts are still in the very high area here – near 10 on the scale of 1 – 12. I’m hoping once the pollen count goes down and the move smoothes out, things will be much better. But for now they are good enough to get by and do some things i wouldn’t have been able to do for the past few years.

Compounding the issue is the fact that spring time pollen counts have been in the high to very high category for weeks while this was going on. I called my doctor and he upped the dosage to 20mg in the morning and 10mg 5 hours later. This seemed to help but again, compounding the issue is that pollen counts the past 2 weeks have been over 10 on a scale of 1 – 12. So i don’t know what to think. I was able to get out golfing and finish the round without taking any tylenol or sudafed – which is very good, as i have been living on 1 or 2 tylenol and sudafed daily for the past year. Since upping the dosage, i have only had to take 1 sudafed one day and maybe 2 tylenol during the past 2 weeks. So based on that, it is working. Still feel badly allergic though with all the associated symptoms of sniffling, pressure on the eyes which cause floaters and flashers and still a little bit of anxiety at times.

Guess i just have to get through the spring to see how well this is working. Hopes are that i can decrease the dosage after spring.

I’ve had allergies all my life since as long as i can remember. I remember going to my Aunt and Uncle’s home and playing with their cat and coming home with my eyes swollen shut. In my early years (before age 22), it was really just a nuisance. Sneezing, Coughing, and perhaps other psychological and physiological symptoms. But i still led a perhaps typical childhood.

But over the years symptoms have increased and gotten to the point where life was no longer ‘typical’ in my eyes. I avoided situations and things and some days felt not good enough to do things. I started noticing that springtime was a difficult time and now avoided some things outside. I also started having migraines with rainbow colors and a sinus headache afterwards. These were not very often but very scary and i therefore avoided the situations where they happened previously. And anxiety attacks started happening.

I also noticed i was extremely tired in the mornings and felt much better late at night and didn’t want to go to bed – which compounded the problem.

I did the ‘normal’ things one would do when they experienced these symptoms. First try over-the-counter medicine and then visit by local Allergist when they didn’t work. I got all the tests – the scratch tests, the blood tests, the sniff tests, the sublingual tests, the muscle tests, etc. They all pointed to the fact that i was allergic to LOTS of stuff. I tried the ‘shots’ for about a year but never really felt any better. The prescription drugs and nasal spray never really worked either and when they did the side effects were bad (tired, dizzy).

I started digging into the alternatives – vitamins, supplements, energy medicine, chiropractors, etc. and still continue to this day.

It came to a point where i couldn’t stay awake at my job and i was fired – first time ever. I tried another job and that lasted about 9 months before i quit and bought an online business, thinking i could work from home and work my own hours. That was 13 years ago and is what i’ve been doing since.

What i’ve found in the last 7 years is that i have multiple chemical sensitivities and the same allergies and maybe more. I’ve found out that by changing my diet and completely avoiding wheat, milk, and corn, i lost a lot of weight and felt a lot better. I also cleaned up my home and removed all carpeting and other chemicals from the home – including cleaning supplies and personal products. I could never work again in an office setting unless that office was completely chemical free and my hours would have to be shortened because i can’t work more than a few hours without feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. And, of course, some days are better and some days are worse.

I’ve read countless books on allergies, chemical sensitivities, anxiety, etc and came to the conclusion that my adrenal glands just weren’t working right. This was confirmed in the last 2 years by a ‘medical doctor’. I have been taking supplements to improve this but they only seem to help a little bit. Things got so bad this past year that my ‘medical doctor’ had to give me ‘cortisol’ in the form of steroids to ‘give the adrenal glands a break’. I truly believe this will work and this is where by blog story starts.

I am hoping that by writing these posts, we can forma community where we all don’t feel alone and can maybe help each other. I truly believe, in my humble opinion, that the ‘medical society’ is about 10 years behind the times in the direction they are taking with allergies and chemical sensitivities and in 10 years we will know so much more about these conditions.

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