I noticed a while ago that I didn’t seem to have allergies this spring. I thought that maybe there was some allergen in Laramie that was missing from Cheyenne. That may still be true, but over the last week it has become clear that at least one allergen remains: cottonwood.
I had some leftover Drixoral, my drug of choice, and that worked well for a few days last week, but then I ran out. I thought I could do without it (my symptoms don’t seem so bad this year), but that’s clearly not the case.
Unfortunately, the ghetto Safeway near my home and workplace does not carry Drixoral. It’s one of those drugs that I have to take the “I’m-not-a-methhead” oath in order to get, and the store doesn’t have a pharmacy. So I tried the generic Zirtec equivalent.
24-hour allergy medicine would be great, but they don’t have a good track record with me. Claritin does nothing as far as I can tell. I’m sad to say that the same appears to be true for Zirtec.
Maybe I can’t complain when my immune system is so good that I haven’t actually been sick in 2.5 years. But sometimes I wish it weren’t quite so overzealous.
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