it's cool when medicine works...
Feb. 10th, 2013 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalSeriously, compounded benadryl is awesome!
Used to, if I was going to have a food reaction that was headache based, there was nothing I could do other than hope that excedrin/aleve (depending on what was avaible corn lite at the time) would mitigate it. Oh, and drink tea to try to get additional anti-inflammatory things in body.
But now, when I feel the cotton head feeling start with the ache in my sinuses after eating out, I can pop a benadryl (and a compounded excedrin) and start to feel half-way okay within an hour. And if it starts to rebound, I can just take another benadryl.
Also, I know it's supposed to put you to sleep. But my compounded benadryl does not do that to me at all. Or maybe it's just I feel less tired than what a reaction makes me.
Still, when I eat at Red Robin again, I'm going to steer clear of the french fries. Normally I try to eat only a few (after asking that they be made sans the special seasoning) for fear of cross contamination. That is clearly the prudent action as eating the entire serving was so not good.
Used to, if I was going to have a food reaction that was headache based, there was nothing I could do other than hope that excedrin/aleve (depending on what was avaible corn lite at the time) would mitigate it. Oh, and drink tea to try to get additional anti-inflammatory things in body.
But now, when I feel the cotton head feeling start with the ache in my sinuses after eating out, I can pop a benadryl (and a compounded excedrin) and start to feel half-way okay within an hour. And if it starts to rebound, I can just take another benadryl.
Also, I know it's supposed to put you to sleep. But my compounded benadryl does not do that to me at all. Or maybe it's just I feel less tired than what a reaction makes me.
Still, when I eat at Red Robin again, I'm going to steer clear of the french fries. Normally I try to eat only a few (after asking that they be made sans the special seasoning) for fear of cross contamination. That is clearly the prudent action as eating the entire serving was so not good.
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Date: 2013-02-11 07:07 am (UTC)Benedryl never puts me to sleep. Stinks when you have insomnia and people want to be helpful. It's helpful when you have crazy allergies and don't want to be immediately put to sleep.
Glad you have something that works now.