Side Effects

About a month ago, my allergies got really bad so I started to experiment with allergy medication. In my mind, I had it fixed; that no meds was a good idea so it was with great reluctance and apprehension that I did try a pill. It seemed to do nothing.

The next one I tried, offered to me by a coworker, did seem to dry up my sinuses and decrease the itchy eyes, but it also made me a bit groggy at times. Not all the time, but very much so other times. This little pink pill was cheap and my coworker swears it NEVER makes her sleepy so I took it for a few weeks. It did seem to help my allergies, but at the same time, I was feeling particularly depressed.

I attributed the depression to the fact that Rocco is moving back to town, I didn’t get that ideal job, my favorite inner souls are no longer for sale and both my teenagers chose to go out and get large, expensive tattoos on their legs, etc. etc.

Then about a week ago I was drooped over my desk unable to function and I decided that the allergy medicine had to go. I was just so darn sleepy. Another coworker offered me a different allergy pill, this one was in a bottle with a lime green lid. I took it and it seemed to do nothing the first day, but I took it again the next morning and my allergies seemed fine all day so I declared the switch a huge success. I was no longer living in a drugged out blur.

Then, yesterday, I was sitting at my desk fighting to keep my eyes open and began to wonder if this new pill wasn’t making me sleepy as well. (It would be a lot easier to tell if the change was definite and pervasive.)

Last night, I lay awake in bed after an exhausting day. I wasn’t sleepy at all. I had been taking the new pills each morning. Mmm…I wonder, if I took them at night, maybe I would sleep better and not be tired during the day.

So today I took NOTHING and I feel better than I have in say….about a month. I haven’t had any allergy issues either and I did run outside this morning. (Let’s hope the worst of allergy season is behind me.) I feel way less depressed, not sleepy at all and more motivated than I have in a long time.

Gee….maybe my original assumption that allergy meds are evil was correct!

Just sayin’.