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Allergies
I've never had a positive reaction to an allergy test, but in the last week or so I really felt as if I were having an allergic reaction. My throat and upper chest were tickling like crazy all the time, and I was coughing a LOT.
Monday evening it got so bad that I started tasting blood whenever I coughed, so I called my doctor's office on Tuesday morning. The nurse suggested seeing an ENT, but I've been down that route and I resisted it. She also suggested Tussin DM and at my prodding, Zyrtec.
The Tussin didn't do much to suppress the cough; it helped a little. The Zyrtec (actually the generic version, cetirizine hydrochloride) suprised me a lot. No allergy medication has ever worked on me before, but when I woke up the next morning the tickling in my throat and chest were gone. And they haven't come back. Ditto for my itchy eyes. I still have other symptoms, mainly post-nasal drip (although now that I think of it, my sinus pain has decreased considerably), but since Zyrtec can take up to two weeks to be fully effective, I'm going to keep taking it and see what happens.
Monday evening it got so bad that I started tasting blood whenever I coughed, so I called my doctor's office on Tuesday morning. The nurse suggested seeing an ENT, but I've been down that route and I resisted it. She also suggested Tussin DM and at my prodding, Zyrtec.
The Tussin didn't do much to suppress the cough; it helped a little. The Zyrtec (actually the generic version, cetirizine hydrochloride) suprised me a lot. No allergy medication has ever worked on me before, but when I woke up the next morning the tickling in my throat and chest were gone. And they haven't come back. Ditto for my itchy eyes. I still have other symptoms, mainly post-nasal drip (although now that I think of it, my sinus pain has decreased considerably), but since Zyrtec can take up to two weeks to be fully effective, I'm going to keep taking it and see what happens.