I think I mentioned that since that last round of attacks I had been perhaps a bit too eager to take my allergy medicines to try to fend off the next round of attacks. Well, after the really big slip up on a Thursday of Zyrtec the night before – 2 benedryl and then alprazolam (xanax)…. I had decided to not take zyrtec at all since 1) it was 24 hours and I had a tendency to forget the next day that I had taken it. 2) It really hasn’t been as effective as the benedryl. So…. I had been taking two benedryl at night (the full dosage and one in the mornings, one in the late afternoon to fend off the beginnings of stuffy ear. To put it simply the last few weeks I’ve felt fairly lousy. I seem to have no energy, no get up and go (all got up and went…) Well, Sunday evening it was almost a week since my last shot so I thought it might be time to lay off the benedryl and I didn’t take it before bed.
When I got up, my ear was NOT stopped up so, I didn’t take it that morning either. Monday was the best day I’ve had in a month. I had energy, some real enthusiasm, didn’t feel like Eeyore all day, got in my ~2 mile walk. I was jazzed! I didn’t take any benedryl Monday night and then woke up Tuesday morning with a stuffy ear starting. So, I took the benedryl first thing (1) and wihtin a little while I was back in the same fog. No pep, no energy, no enthusiasm for anything. I spun wheels half the morning. After lunch I actually took a nap before having to go to a late afternoon appointment. By about 9 in the evening I was finally feeling a bit better, maybe not jazzed, but at least not so low energy that getting up seems like too much trouble. (By the way, my ear cleared up sometime during the day, another sign that at least for me these symptoms are allergy related.)