As a child and perhaps as a teenager, I suffered from hay fever and allergies to grass, dust, pollen and I am sure hard physical work.
For decades I assumed I was done with allergies as I did not suffer symptoms for as long as I care to remember. A couple of months after my arrival, while in Santo Domingo for a few days, I had a runny nose and that general itchiness. Constantly blowing my nose. Got gringo priced at the SD pharmacy for 10 claratin-d, didn't care, I was suffering. Not immediately, but soon after leaving SD, the symptoms cleared up and I forgot about the sniffles.
I don't remember for sure but I may have sniffled once or twice since. I had two claritin left and I used both of those in the last two days. The runny nose is back, itchy nose maybe eyes as well. Off to the farmacia today.
Those of you who suffer from similar allergies, what are your experiences here in the DR? Due to the lack of a winter, do you find that there are two or more times a year when either pollen or another allergen becomes a factor? Anyone else who thought they had outgrown their allergies only to have them come back after they moved here? Anyone gone so far as to have testing performed only and found out "they're back" or it's something new?
I find it curious that I usually only suffer for a couple of weeks and sometimes it flares up if I travel regionally. This time I started sniffling a day before leaving for SD and the claritin kept me from annoying everyone on the bus. The cause is here on the North Coast where as the last time it was on the South Coast. Changing locales brings relief after a few days but I am now back home where the problem began so I just have to manage the symptoms until whatever is causing this blows over. Can it be that I am allergic to SD? :laugh:
For decades I assumed I was done with allergies as I did not suffer symptoms for as long as I care to remember. A couple of months after my arrival, while in Santo Domingo for a few days, I had a runny nose and that general itchiness. Constantly blowing my nose. Got gringo priced at the SD pharmacy for 10 claratin-d, didn't care, I was suffering. Not immediately, but soon after leaving SD, the symptoms cleared up and I forgot about the sniffles.
I don't remember for sure but I may have sniffled once or twice since. I had two claritin left and I used both of those in the last two days. The runny nose is back, itchy nose maybe eyes as well. Off to the farmacia today.
Those of you who suffer from similar allergies, what are your experiences here in the DR? Due to the lack of a winter, do you find that there are two or more times a year when either pollen or another allergen becomes a factor? Anyone else who thought they had outgrown their allergies only to have them come back after they moved here? Anyone gone so far as to have testing performed only and found out "they're back" or it's something new?
I find it curious that I usually only suffer for a couple of weeks and sometimes it flares up if I travel regionally. This time I started sniffling a day before leaving for SD and the claritin kept me from annoying everyone on the bus. The cause is here on the North Coast where as the last time it was on the South Coast. Changing locales brings relief after a few days but I am now back home where the problem began so I just have to manage the symptoms until whatever is causing this blows over. Can it be that I am allergic to SD? :laugh:
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