I can get pretty bad spring allergies but it comes and goes. I had a couple of horrid years in San Jose mixed with years with no problems (most years).
Of course, Sacramento has very high rates of asthma and allergies. Since moving here I have pretty much suffered every spring.
Anyway, I wasn't feeling well Friday and though I was coming down with a cold. I mostly rested all day.
Yesterday I felt good as new but spent a couple of hours outside. After that I couldn't stop sneezing and I woke up, not quite bad as Friday, but not great.
I just told dh, "I have allergies!" Though in spring it really affects my eyes more than anything. Thank goodness my eyes are not itchy - it's just the worst.
So I googled a bit. I can't recall ever suffering from fall allergies. Or maybe I have always chalked it up to a virus. I don't know.
It just occurred to me because the weather has been so unusually warm. I wondered if there was possibly more pollen in the air or something with the warm weather. Maybe there are some confused plants?
So I was relived to see fall allergies are fairly common in some areas.
At least I am not crazy.
I'll survive.
It's kind of a shame when the weather is nice I can't stand to go outside though. The weather is GORGEOUS here and predicted to stay gorgeous for the next couple of weeks. I think I will stay mostly indoors!
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Still no heat. It's been around 80 during the day, 50 at night, and the house has settled around 76.
Weather predicted the same for the next couple of weeks. So I probably won't update much on that until we hit November.
I turned the water heater back down to our summer level. (I had turned it up because it had dropped to the 40s for a few days overnight).
Fall Allergies
October 19th, 2008 at 06:32 pm
October 19th, 2008 at 10:44 pm 1224452686
Check pollen.com for info on what's out in the air around here (or anywhere).
And the Northern California weather is GORGEOUS!
October 20th, 2008 at 12:51 am 1224460306
October 20th, 2008 at 03:14 am 1224468852
I wonder how often I've been "sick" in fall and just didn't realize.