Results and Q+A

Doing a quick post today so sorry if the answers are shorter than usual.  If anyone was curious about the flowers, it turns out carnations and tulips don't seem to cause me much of a reaction.  Thats good because Allison really like tulips :)

Q+A:

Q: How many times would you say you sneeze in a day? For example, is a sneezing fit 5 or 6 sneezes or non-stop sneezes for twenty minutes? 
A: I sneeze too much to keep count most days.  I can get both fits and non-stop sneezing.  My fits are usually a bit more than 6 though.  I can have non-stop sneezing last twenty minutes or more.  

Q: Are you ever not able to drive due to sneezing?
A: Yes.  Some days if my allergies are really bad I won't even try to drive.  I will aos pull over while driving if a bad allergy attack starts to come on.  Other than wintertime, I usually try to get others to do the driving so I don't have to worry about it. 

Q: Do you find, if you are already suffering from allergies that certain stimuli will make them worse, or once your allergies have started to affect you is it generally a similar level of intensity?
A: If my allergies are already acting up, being exposed to something else will always make them worse.  The more my allergies act up, the more sensitive my nose gets to everything.

I still really like the Q+A format so keep the questions coming, and I can always use ideas of what to post about.  Be sure to comment!

Looking for allergy suggestions and more Q+A

I hope everyone is ok from the storm.  I was going to post this last week, but the storm happened, and we had no power or internet for some time.  All is ok now and pretty much back to normal.

Allison has been so understanding and helpful with my allergies.  Most other people I have dated ranged from tolerating it to getting annoyed or mad at me about them.  Allison bends over backwards to do all she can to be helpful.  I feel kinda bad that she is doing so much for me.

One of her favorite things in the world is flowers, and when we started dating she got rid of all of them and never got any more.  All she has now is some pictures of flowers.  I feel like I want to help her out a bit and have her able to have some flowers again.  I always say that I am allergic to all flowers, but thats not exactly true.  I have had allergic reactions to flowers I have come in contact to in the past, and I just assumed I am allergic to all types just to make things easy if people ask.  I figure there must be a few flowers I am not allergic to, and I'd like to be able to let Allison enjoy something she really likes.

What I want to do is see if there are any kinds of flowers I am not allergic to.  I want to wait til Jan or so to try it out, when I have the least number of things bothering my nose.  The best idea I could come up with is to have a flower near me and have a fan making a slight breeze and seeing if I start to have a reaction.  I think thats the closest to how I would be exposed to a flower that is in a place I am in.  I would usually avoid sniffing a flower or brushing myself against one so I dont want to test it that way.

I want a few opinions on this.  Is this a silly idea, or would it work ok?  Would there be a better way to do it?  Thank you for any ideas.


 And here is a bit more of Q+A

Q: You said 'we' when you talked about precautions you take at home....does this mean you have roommates? Is it hard to get them to understand/help your allergies?
A:  I mainly stay with Allison at her place so she is the one I was talking about.  I have had roomies during my life that kind of run the whole range.  Some understood pretty well, some didn't care much to understand, some were just clueless, and some would try to understand but just not get it.  Luckily I usually had ones that were understanding to some level, or at least tried.  The hardest one to deal with though was one who was trying to be nice and understanding but just really failing at it.  Made it hard for me to say anything to her because she was trying so hard.

Like I always say, keep the questions coming.  It gives me ideas on what to write about!

long awaited update for June

Sorry its been so long.  I just haven't been in the posting mood.  I wanted to update 2 things.

I tried the nasal filters and they were much less impressive than I had hoped.  They don't stay in the right place, I can feel them in there and they get gunked up with snot pretty quickly.  They only helped mildly anyway. I used them for about 5 days then I gave up on them.

I have been in the drug trial and will be for at least a few more weeks.  It is somewhat helpful.  Its not totally getting rid of my symptoms but its helping in some areas.  I am getting some side effects.  Nothing horrible but they can be annoying. 

I also had a wacky dream a few days ago.  It only slightly had to do with my allergies though.  I visited a friend I hadn't seen since I was a kid.  When I got there I needed to change, and when I had all my clothes off except my panties for some reason I walked with my friend though the house having a conversation.  I then realized I was mostly naked but every time I meant to go back to get clothes on, I would run into someone and start having a conversation and then partway through realize I was naked and then try to go get clothes, but then run into someone else: her family, her parents, other friends, random people, etc.  I would talk to the person, then after a bit I would get a strange look from then and then I would realize I was mostly naked.  At one point I was told I had to hold some flowers, and they started me sneezing and my nose running and I didn't have a sleeve so I kept switching between looking for tissues and getting my clothes but never doing either.  For some reason I wasn't able to put the flowers down.  After a bit of that, the dream ended.

Any ideas on what the dream might mean?  Any more questions for me so I can do a new Q+A?