So I give up! | Arthritis Information

My allergies are medication resistant. Well that would be my guess scince I can not get off the antibiotics. I just get sicker and sicker.

So I caved and made an appointment to get the allergy shots.

Maybe not a big deal to some. I had the worst experience last time. Last time a physicians assistant gave them to me. She begged me not to quit. She said it was her fault. She was supposed to give me small doses and she felt froggy and gave me a normal dose.

So maybe she learned her lesson? It had been discused ahead of time and I trusted her. So you can see why I did not trust her. She decided she thought I could handle it.

So I will see if my ENT will give them to me. I trust him. He did surgery on me two years ago and I have been seeing him regularly scince.

Well I give in. I will find out Thursday if he gives in?

I know they work. I breath much better when I got them and they lasted along time even with me not finishing. I think it was my fifth time to the eroom for an epi shot that was my last straw last time. So I did not give up easily.

Just they have worn off and I hate to put myself through the same experience. I just do not see another choice. Maybe it is because I am allergic to such a wide variety of things that I need a lower dose?

I get alleragy shots. I am on my 3rd year. It's a really long process. It seems I tested positive for 19 of th 21 things they tested for. Not surprised. Never had allergies till I moved to this area. They said that's pretty common. I live in a valley-pretty much a bowl surrounded by mountains. So, everything just settles down here.

My first week down here I was setting up my classroom and kept breaking out in hives. Thought there was something in my room. Even the principal came and we were flipping desks and trying to find some mold or something....

I get two shots due to the number of allergens-one in each arm. Basically, go in, get the shots, wait ten minutes, and out I go. My school nurse gives them to me during the school year. That's pretty convienent. Or, I can give them to myself. If the nurse wasn't a good friend of mine, I might have gone that route. The weekly shot gives us time to gossip.

It is a long process. You start off really small and then work up to your maintance dose. Then weeklly shots become everyother week....I haven't gotten to that point yet.

Well the hospital is two blocks away and the doc is in the out patient clinic. I always got one shot. The working up to the maintance dose was when I would have the bad allergic reactions.

That was years ago so maybe they have learned new ways of dealling with things. Will see if they can break it down into two shots.

My in case of emergency doc, evenings and weekends, used to be my sons school nurse.