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miss_lucy21Tomorrow I have an appointment with my allergist (routine appointment, although he is getting to see me at the tail end of a sinus infection, so, uh, yay? Not that he's not intimately familiar with my sinus problems- he was the one who figured out there was a defect in the first place and referred me to the ENT). I am planning on seeing if he does Rush Immunotherapy or if he's willing to refer me to someone who does, because we've established that regular immunotherapy (aka allergy shots) don't work that well with me (I've got enough allergies that it's a long, long course- years not months, and I've never made it past the first vial for various reasons, including reactions and money). And because I'm at the point where I really need to do something. I suspect the Allegra is losing effectiveness (happens. Happened before, actually- I used to take it as a prescription when I was a teenager and it'd first come out) and none of the other allergy medications on the market are tolerable. "Non-drowsy", for me, generally means "doubles as sleeping pill". The first time I had a script for Zyrtec, I slept for 15 hours on the first dose. Missed class, missed work, managed to call the doctor and say, "No. Not working" and fell asleep for another three hours. Claritin isn't quite that bad, but it does put me right into brain fog and I'm not capable of living like that. My brain has enough challenges.
So, I decide to look at the medical articles for the Rush Immunotherapy to see if there's indicators that it would work well for me. And promptly discover that I can't even understand the abstracts. I did manage to find a couple of sentences that indicate that yes, this is safe to do with asthmatics (with supervision, and correct support, obviously) and that yes, it is effective for people with my kind of allergies (severe allergic rhinitis, mostly. I have skin allergies, too, and drug allergies- ooh, I wonder if this works with drug allergies. Being able to take naprosyn or penicillin would be really fucking useful- but no real food allergies. The rhinitis is the worst bit and the part that leads to sinus infections). And then I switched to regular google, and all of a sudden the articles I was finding made sense. I'm fairly sure they're reasonably supported, even if I can't actually understand the sources. So, we'll see.
So, I decide to look at the medical articles for the Rush Immunotherapy to see if there's indicators that it would work well for me. And promptly discover that I can't even understand the abstracts. I did manage to find a couple of sentences that indicate that yes, this is safe to do with asthmatics (with supervision, and correct support, obviously) and that yes, it is effective for people with my kind of allergies (severe allergic rhinitis, mostly. I have skin allergies, too, and drug allergies- ooh, I wonder if this works with drug allergies. Being able to take naprosyn or penicillin would be really fucking useful- but no real food allergies. The rhinitis is the worst bit and the part that leads to sinus infections). And then I switched to regular google, and all of a sudden the articles I was finding made sense. I'm fairly sure they're reasonably supported, even if I can't actually understand the sources. So, we'll see.