I have been stuffed up like a MF all week. The other day someone said to me that I looked weary. Well, girls do get weary. I’ve been trying Zyrtec since I had a coupon and it doesn’t require me to have a police check so I thought what the heck. Of course, the Zyrtec has been great with the itchy eyes but it isn’t a decongestant and so my head has been packed. Packed like a baby’s diaper.
I tried using the neti pot and one side of my head drained like a champ, but the other side laughed at the salt water and told me to blow it out my ear. Which I felt like I had ruptured when I blew my nose after the neti pot. I looked like a weary raccoon when I got home today because of the packed in snot and that was the last straw. Weary and raccoony? Oh Hell No.
I told the better-half if I fell over to tell the paramedics that I wasn’t done with the 24-hour Zyrtec when I took a 12-hour decongestant and then drank a beer–if I’m going to die, dying happy is a grand idea. About half-way through the beer, my head cleared up. All praise better living through chemistry.
I think I will try the non-decongestant on regular days and not on the days where the pollen count is 12.18 gabillion.
The neti pot works best if you use it every day. I always have one side that flows nicely and one that takes forever for the water to trickle out. I don’t do well with allergy drugs so I like the neti pot.
We’ve got a nice thick layer of yellow pollen all over everything up here too. I can’t stop sneezing.