I am getting desperate and about to find the Sudafed. ACK! Please help...
This is my first time in this forum and I searched back 4 or so pages and didn't see anything on seasonal allergies. If I need to post elsewhere, please point me in the right direction.
I have seasonal allergies in the Fall and live in San Diego. I was told by a doctor several years ago that my allergy is to eucalyptus trees and that they do something in the Fall that creates my misery (and for many others). It has never shown up on allergy tests, but he was an intern with a personal interest in this topic.
Aside from avoiding groves of eucalyptus trees this time of the year, which I already do (and is quite challenging here), what else can I do to avoid the awful allergy symptoms?
For the last two weeks, I have been getting a horrendous headache every evening. My sinuses feel awful. I've been using peppermint eo to help clear my head and it was working up until today. (I've also been doing steamy showers, yoga, meditation, rubbing pressure points on my face and head, etc.) This morning, I got a jab in the gumline from a piece of cereal. My gum tissues are very sensitive (not always) and this set off a chain reaction of pain in various teeth. The pain moved around a bit and has settled in one of my teeth. Oh, it is INTENSE. In the last hour or so, the pain has spread across my entire upper jaw...more intense on ends. My head feels like it is going to explode from all the pressure...on the top, behind my eyes, and next to my nose on both sides.
Please, please share some ways to provide relief without Sudafed! I will use it if I have to, but it brings on a whole new set of issues for me... jittery, super thirsty followed by very frequent potty breaks and always full-feeling bladder, HYPER followed by crashing HARD, and so on... all things I'd rather avoid. Oh, but my head is soooo uncomfortable. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being no pain and 10 being super intense, I'd rank it up around an 8. It was a 7 earlier.
Thank you for reading and any advice!
This is my first time in this forum and I searched back 4 or so pages and didn't see anything on seasonal allergies. If I need to post elsewhere, please point me in the right direction.
I have seasonal allergies in the Fall and live in San Diego. I was told by a doctor several years ago that my allergy is to eucalyptus trees and that they do something in the Fall that creates my misery (and for many others). It has never shown up on allergy tests, but he was an intern with a personal interest in this topic.
Aside from avoiding groves of eucalyptus trees this time of the year, which I already do (and is quite challenging here), what else can I do to avoid the awful allergy symptoms?
For the last two weeks, I have been getting a horrendous headache every evening. My sinuses feel awful. I've been using peppermint eo to help clear my head and it was working up until today. (I've also been doing steamy showers, yoga, meditation, rubbing pressure points on my face and head, etc.) This morning, I got a jab in the gumline from a piece of cereal. My gum tissues are very sensitive (not always) and this set off a chain reaction of pain in various teeth. The pain moved around a bit and has settled in one of my teeth. Oh, it is INTENSE. In the last hour or so, the pain has spread across my entire upper jaw...more intense on ends. My head feels like it is going to explode from all the pressure...on the top, behind my eyes, and next to my nose on both sides.
Please, please share some ways to provide relief without Sudafed! I will use it if I have to, but it brings on a whole new set of issues for me... jittery, super thirsty followed by very frequent potty breaks and always full-feeling bladder, HYPER followed by crashing HARD, and so on... all things I'd rather avoid. Oh, but my head is soooo uncomfortable. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being no pain and 10 being super intense, I'd rank it up around an 8. It was a 7 earlier.
Thank you for reading and any advice!
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