beesknees

Oh no, the computer I really need to reformat crashed on me again, and this time firefox has forgotten my open tabs. They're gone, they're gone, so many thousand-chapter fics I now no longer know where I left off 2 - 64,378 days ago...also, ironically, a few “how to possibly fix the boot-up issue you’re having if you’ll just get around to trying” pages.

Yup, I have got to stop using dozens of internet tabs as my mental pocketbook.

In better thoughts, I’m already starting to feel better, five days into the whatever-this-is-that-isn’t-Goop-yoga-babble (basically the anti-candida regimen, except we minimise some things like coffee, corn, potatoes, and cheese rather than entirely cutting them out). Always resign myself to a miserable 1-2 weeks at the start, except it hasn’t been that bad since the first time we did it, and that was like, yikes, 14 years ago – so, excepting preggo and nursing years, this is like the 9^th time we’ve done this? Anyway my body’s apparently now just like, *eyeroll* this shit again, and shifts digestive gears after a few days. I’m a lot less hungry, sleeping better, generally calmer…the antihistamine side effects also seem to have eased off.

I kind of question why it always takes the threat of apocalyptic London spring/summer/fall allergies to roll me into a familiar regimen that makes my body and brain much easier to get on with. Then I’m like, oh right. Ice cream exists. Eh…worth it!

Had an asthma review earlier this week where the nurse suggested I start taking daily antihistamines now in order to minimise my spring/summer allergies starting in a month or so. And I was all, sure! Why not! I’ve done this before but stopped for I don’t know why, couldn’t have been important!

Started on Friday, and woke up Saturday tired, anxious, and generally in a bitch of a mood. Oh, right…that’s why I stopped. Sigh.

Going to experiment with when in the evening before I can take these (since their effectiveness and, potentially, side effects peak in 8-10 hours) and sleep through the worst of the bad-brain effect, or quarantine it to the morning at least. Partner advises (since he takes one every evening) that I might adjust in a few days or a week and no longer be so affected…cross fingers there. I tend to be one of the poor SOBs who get the rarer or more extreme reactions, so we’ll see.

Either way, it’s motivation to start our pre-spring allergy…diet? Detox? I hate all the words that could describe cutting out foods that make allergies worse – primarily booze and sugar, ie anything ending in -ose…should also quit caffeine but *clutches coffee mug* this is my emotional support bitter bean juice officer. Anyway, that starts Monday. We’ll be miserable for a week and feel awesome after the second. Sigh. Yay.