Allergies, My Eye!
Apr. 15th, 2012 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Friday morning I woke up at 3:30 with the sensation of something falling into my eye. It hurt. I was in tears. I let the tears come in hopes that they would wash away the foreign object. It happened again to my other eye at 5:00 when I opened my eyes to the sound of the alarm. My right eye was puffy and blurry all day. Figuring that this was the first strike of allergies, I took half a Zyrtek and went about my day. It is really hard to read with one eye all blurry and every day I have to read a lot...
The eye got better. Today there is no blurriness at all. In fact, there are no other allergy symptoms. Every spring, I think I am going to escape seasonal allergies when all the sudden they hit me. The last 2-3 years, they have attacked my eyes first. That's playing dirty, going for the eyes, if you ask me...
Except for that eye incident, I have had no real allergy symptoms this year. The only difference I can think of is that I have been swimming. Maybe putting my face in chlorinated water three times a week has helped to wash away the allergens. I swam today and my head feels great, as well as the rest of my body... Last week was the first sign of allergy symptoms and also the first week I have not been able to swim at all (for a variety of reasons).
Could there be a connection between swimming and disappearance of allergy symptoms? I guess time will tell. I have a few more weeks of tree pollen before final results will be in...
The eye got better. Today there is no blurriness at all. In fact, there are no other allergy symptoms. Every spring, I think I am going to escape seasonal allergies when all the sudden they hit me. The last 2-3 years, they have attacked my eyes first. That's playing dirty, going for the eyes, if you ask me...
Except for that eye incident, I have had no real allergy symptoms this year. The only difference I can think of is that I have been swimming. Maybe putting my face in chlorinated water three times a week has helped to wash away the allergens. I swam today and my head feels great, as well as the rest of my body... Last week was the first sign of allergy symptoms and also the first week I have not been able to swim at all (for a variety of reasons).
Could there be a connection between swimming and disappearance of allergy symptoms? I guess time will tell. I have a few more weeks of tree pollen before final results will be in...
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Date: 2012-04-16 01:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-16 02:55 pm (UTC)Interesting theory!