Ugh. That about describes my day. Ugh again.
I have just gone through lots and lots of allergy and asthma testing. I did half of it last Friday and half of it today. Both times the allergy testing was done across my entire back and then on my right arm. Friday more things on my back reacted, but today, the grass test on my right arm blew up. It has been 8 hours and I still look like I have a baseball growing out of my tricep. I'm not happy. It hurts, bad. It hurt to even run today. I took a Zyrtec as soon as I got home and they put ice on it at the dr, but it didn't help. So add a bum right arm to my bum left knee, left butt cheek and both hands from my spill on Saturday and I'm doing great. I'm also just plain sick again - especially in my chest. Speaking of chest issues, it turns out I do indeed have asthma, ("uncontrolled asthma" as it was called) and have probably had it since childhood. The dr said my high heart rate when I run just doesn't make much sense for someone as healthy as me, but says that treating my asthma may make a huge difference. She commented on how healthy my low heart rate was when she listened to it on Friday, but that made her even more surprised that it can get so high when I exercise. So, I am going on Symbacort for that, as well as keeping up with the albuterol when I need it. So the symbacort is medicine #1 that will probably screw with my sleeping....don't worry, there are more to come on my fun list. I also have to go to a cardiologist now to follow up on a birth defect I had just to make sure that combined with the asthma and my exercise isn't recipe for something not-so-good. Maybe I can get some VO2 max testing or something similar out of that!
Next up are my wonderful allergies. She said I wasn't "sort of" allergic to anything. I either wasn't allergic, or I was beyond allergic, hence my right arm blowing up. I learned I'm allergic to cattle. Good to know. I will have to stay away from those cows now. Also guinea pigs...again, I guess I will have to take mine to the pound. I'm very very allergic to dust mites, food molds, grass, ragweed, orris root (you know, the stuff in potpourri and newspaper ink), down feathers, cats, and who knows what else.
Now for the fun part. What I can't have for the next 3 months: all dairy, yeast (no bread, beer, aged cheese...as in no pizza, baked goods, sandwiches, etc), mushrooms (I don't like them anyway, no biggie there), olives (again, wouldn't touch one), tyhme (apparently this rules out Italian food), and cinnamom. I don't drink milk or eat tons of yogurt, but I do like cheese and I can't have that anymore. No ice cream either. So fun. So what did I do about this today? Had a sandwich and chocolate cake for dinner, of course. I have to get all new bedding which sucks. Bedding is expensive and all of my down stuff is/was very nice.
I dropped 6 prescriptions off at the pharmacy tonight, including one for the allergy shots I get to give myself twice a week for the next two months and then once a week for at least 3 years (we will see if that happens...). On top of all this fun stuff I tried to run at track tonight and almost died. My HR was way way too high to be running at T-pace (the slowest you would run in a track workout). I even got a ride home because I didn't feel like running/walking the whole 1/2 mile from the track back home.
So I'm feeling sorry for myself right now and pretty lonely too. I wouldn't mind just crawling up into someone's arms right now and falling asleep - and knowing I will sleep regardless of what drugs I am on!!! I know things could be way worse and people deal with this all the time, but I am just so frustrated. I haven't run well in forever. I've done pretty much no speed work because it has been too hot and I've been too sick. Sure my long runs have been going well, but they have been done way slower than my goal marathon pace, as discussed earlier, but that doesn't help much if I don't run any faster than that at any other time. I have also gained 8 lbs since IMAZ and I just feel so fat and ugly and yucky. I dread going back on all this medicine because I have no idea what it will do to me weight-wise.
I guess I should have given a Debbie Downer warning at the beginning of this post. Oh well.
I have just gone through lots and lots of allergy and asthma testing. I did half of it last Friday and half of it today. Both times the allergy testing was done across my entire back and then on my right arm. Friday more things on my back reacted, but today, the grass test on my right arm blew up. It has been 8 hours and I still look like I have a baseball growing out of my tricep. I'm not happy. It hurts, bad. It hurt to even run today. I took a Zyrtec as soon as I got home and they put ice on it at the dr, but it didn't help. So add a bum right arm to my bum left knee, left butt cheek and both hands from my spill on Saturday and I'm doing great. I'm also just plain sick again - especially in my chest. Speaking of chest issues, it turns out I do indeed have asthma, ("uncontrolled asthma" as it was called) and have probably had it since childhood. The dr said my high heart rate when I run just doesn't make much sense for someone as healthy as me, but says that treating my asthma may make a huge difference. She commented on how healthy my low heart rate was when she listened to it on Friday, but that made her even more surprised that it can get so high when I exercise. So, I am going on Symbacort for that, as well as keeping up with the albuterol when I need it. So the symbacort is medicine #1 that will probably screw with my sleeping....don't worry, there are more to come on my fun list. I also have to go to a cardiologist now to follow up on a birth defect I had just to make sure that combined with the asthma and my exercise isn't recipe for something not-so-good. Maybe I can get some VO2 max testing or something similar out of that!
Next up are my wonderful allergies. She said I wasn't "sort of" allergic to anything. I either wasn't allergic, or I was beyond allergic, hence my right arm blowing up. I learned I'm allergic to cattle. Good to know. I will have to stay away from those cows now. Also guinea pigs...again, I guess I will have to take mine to the pound. I'm very very allergic to dust mites, food molds, grass, ragweed, orris root (you know, the stuff in potpourri and newspaper ink), down feathers, cats, and who knows what else.
Now for the fun part. What I can't have for the next 3 months: all dairy, yeast (no bread, beer, aged cheese...as in no pizza, baked goods, sandwiches, etc), mushrooms (I don't like them anyway, no biggie there), olives (again, wouldn't touch one), tyhme (apparently this rules out Italian food), and cinnamom. I don't drink milk or eat tons of yogurt, but I do like cheese and I can't have that anymore. No ice cream either. So fun. So what did I do about this today? Had a sandwich and chocolate cake for dinner, of course. I have to get all new bedding which sucks. Bedding is expensive and all of my down stuff is/was very nice.
I dropped 6 prescriptions off at the pharmacy tonight, including one for the allergy shots I get to give myself twice a week for the next two months and then once a week for at least 3 years (we will see if that happens...). On top of all this fun stuff I tried to run at track tonight and almost died. My HR was way way too high to be running at T-pace (the slowest you would run in a track workout). I even got a ride home because I didn't feel like running/walking the whole 1/2 mile from the track back home.
So I'm feeling sorry for myself right now and pretty lonely too. I wouldn't mind just crawling up into someone's arms right now and falling asleep - and knowing I will sleep regardless of what drugs I am on!!! I know things could be way worse and people deal with this all the time, but I am just so frustrated. I haven't run well in forever. I've done pretty much no speed work because it has been too hot and I've been too sick. Sure my long runs have been going well, but they have been done way slower than my goal marathon pace, as discussed earlier, but that doesn't help much if I don't run any faster than that at any other time. I have also gained 8 lbs since IMAZ and I just feel so fat and ugly and yucky. I dread going back on all this medicine because I have no idea what it will do to me weight-wise.
I guess I should have given a Debbie Downer warning at the beginning of this post. Oh well.
Comments
Bob.
Hon, I really feel your pain. I know exactly what you are going through. The bread, baked goods part is going to be the hardest part but trust me, once you get this stuff out of your diet for a month you are going to feel much better and you will probably notice a drop in weight on the scale.
I had to go back to the allergist last week and he took me off all grains because i was still having itching, swelling, and digestive issues with oats and rice. By going cold turkey I have lost 3 pounds in one week because I was peeing off all the water weight.
Stay positive, there are still chocolate bars...