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Runs With Snowplows
posted: 5/8/2007 at 12:47 PM
#1 on my current list of things that suck. My head hurts, throat hurts, sinuses are plugged...and this is with TWO prescription allergy meds (Allegra and Singulair). Gah, I wish we'd get a hard rain to clear the crap out of the air and off of everything. My car has a nasty yellow dust on it.

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Kirsten

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Frustrating Project
posted: 5/8/2007 at 12:49 PM
Sorry. That sucks. My wife has bad allergies, too. Her theme song should be "I'm Only Happy When It Rains." Sad
20th Century: 800m: 2:04 |1600m: 4:37 |3200m: 10:06 |5k: 16:23 |10k: 35:38 |15k: 54:20
25k: 1:35:59

21st Century: 5k: 19:42 |10k: 43:00

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Runs With Snowplows
posted: 5/8/2007 at 12:50 PM
Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 5/8/2007 at 12:49 PM:
Sorry. That sucks. My wife has bad allergies, too. Her theme song should be "I'm Only Happy When It Rains." Sad


Cool Garbage reference.

Big grin

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Kirsten

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posted: 5/8/2007 at 12:56 PM
Quote from zoom-zoom on 5/8/2007 at 12:50 PM:
Cool Garbage reference.


Yeah, I think they're excellent. Recently added some of their tunes to my running playlist.
20th Century: 800m: 2:04 |1600m: 4:37 |3200m: 10:06 |5k: 16:23 |10k: 35:38 |15k: 54:20
25k: 1:35:59

21st Century: 5k: 19:42 |10k: 43:00

"Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly, and they use too much vermouth."
Steve Allen
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Runs With Snowplows
posted: 5/8/2007 at 12:58 PM
I have several Garbage tracks that I like...I don't think I actually have any on my running playlists, though. I should take a listen to those ones that you have added recently.

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Kirsten

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Funky Monkey
posted: 5/8/2007 at 2:18 PM
Get thee some Flonase. And change to Zyrtec.
It's all fun and games until the flying monkeys attack.
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Runs With Snowplows
posted: 5/8/2007 at 2:48 PM
Right now I'm wishin' I was back on a nasal steroid. Last year I did Nasacort AQ for a while, but it was so freakin' expensive, even with insurance. For a month or two it would be worth it, though.

I think if things get much worse that I will definitely be calling my PCP. He really is a fan of nasal steroids and I think Flonase was his suggestion for the next course of action.

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posted: 5/8/2007 at 2:50 PM
Quote from Trent on 5/8/2007 at 2:18 PM:
Get thee some Flonase. And change to Zyrtec.


My wife has had a fair amount success with these, esp. the Flonase. But everyone's nose is different... Smile
20th Century: 800m: 2:04 |1600m: 4:37 |3200m: 10:06 |5k: 16:23 |10k: 35:38 |15k: 54:20
25k: 1:35:59

21st Century: 5k: 19:42 |10k: 43:00

"Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly, and they use too much vermouth."
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Funky Monkey
posted: 5/8/2007 at 2:55 PM
You may also want to take a burst of oral steroids.
It's all fun and games until the flying monkeys attack.
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Runs With Snowplows
posted: 5/8/2007 at 3:01 PM
Quote from Trent on 5/8/2007 at 2:55 PM:
You may also want to take a burst of oral steroids.


How does this work? Is it just a short-term thing? I could swear one of my siblings was on something like this years ago for respiratory stuff.

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Kirsten

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posted: 5/8/2007 at 3:47 PM
I'm only happy when it rains. Hubby calls me Morticia. I use flonase and clarinex. It works fine in the fall and winter. I need something else for spring. It's been awful this year. Won't zyrtec make me drowsy?
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Funky Monkey
posted: 5/8/2007 at 3:49 PM
Quote from zoom-zoom on 5/8/2007 at 3:01 PM:
How does this work? Is it just a short-term thing? I could swear one of my siblings was on something like this years ago for respiratory stuff.

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Five days of steroids. Or a single shot. If you do go with the oral version, DO NOT let your doc give you a dose pack. Just tell doc that s/he ain't gonna blow out your adrenals and it is a whole lot easier to take a single dose every morning and be done with it than to chew on the nasty pills all day and keep track of a taper. Or get a shot.
It's all fun and games until the flying monkeys attack.
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posted: 5/8/2007 at 6:32 PM
Quote from zoom-zoom on 5/8/2007 at 12:47 PM:
#1 on my current list of things that suck. My head hurts, throat hurts, sinuses are plugged...and this is with TWO prescription allergy meds (Allegra and Singulair). Gah, I wish we'd get a hard rain to clear the crap out of the air and off of everything. My car has a nasty yellow dust on it.

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I was talking about you this morning while out on the trails with hubby. I'm finding it really hard to breathe too...infact, (gross part/TMI coming..., shut your eyes you faint of heart people) I'm coughing up green chunks. That's probably a sign I should go somewhere and be seen, isn't it? Big grin But realllllly hard to breathe right now and I'm on Allegra and Nasonex!!! I'm really eyeing my son's inhaler. LOL
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Runs With Snowplows
posted: 5/8/2007 at 7:14 PM
It is hella humid out there. I think that's half of my breathing problem--I'll bet that's bothering you, too, Joni. The air is warm enough and the lakes are still so cold that there is a LOT of mist/vapor coming off of them. I actually find that the drier air bothers my asthma less than the humid stuff.

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Kirsten

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• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k
• 1st trail race
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Runs With Snowplows
posted: 5/8/2007 at 7:15 PM
Oh, yeah...and green chunks would have me in to see the doctor ASAP. I don't mess with green stuff.

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Kirsten

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.: 2008 Goals :.
• Run 1500 miles
• October 5 - 1st marathon - Milwaukee Lakefront - in my home state of WI
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k
• 1st trail race
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