on medication
Yesterday Youngest and I threw in the towel - we buckled under, we gave in and took allergy medicine.
He's been sniffy for days and has to wash his eyes open in the morning.
His medical history would point toward him having an asthma attack under these circumstances, but he's decided he doesn't HAVE asthma anymore and, for the moment, that seems to be holding true.
I, on the other hand, have been scratching the roof of my mouth with my tongue (oh, just TRY TO IMAGINE IT) for two solid weeks and have wrecked such havoc that I'm finding solid food difficult to manage.
SO, my point is: we each took a Claritin in the morning.
I'm not good about medication. I tend to whinge and whine about the side effects and I often feel they outweigh the benefits. As a result, I have never taken this particular pill.
In the meantime, Youngest has been medicated his whole short life. And I mention this because I have never taken HALF the medications that Youngest has been on and have no clue how they've made him feel all these years and it gives me pause.
All these years of inhalers and steroids and treatments and I've never tried any of them - not that I would. BUT yesterday we each took the same medication. He took a nap and I spaced out for a few hours. He read a book and I met with the insurance agent (DON'T GET ME STARTED) and then we met on the patio.
How do you feel, I asked tentatively, I feel like my brain is a tiny marble rolling around in my empty skull, I continued.
I feel like I'm having an anxiety attack, said he, and I don't think I want to take this medicine ever again. My body feels hollow and I feel lost. (We know who is more articulate, don't we?)
FROM A STUPID ALLERGY PILL.
I cannot begin to imagine how he feels when he is on 35 mg of Prednisone.
I could really rant about this - how many medications do we give our children without really knowing how they make them feel?
Of course I can justify my decisions to medicate him all this time. Or not.
I'm going to shut up instead.
If anyone would like some Claritin I can mail it out tomorrow.
He's been sniffy for days and has to wash his eyes open in the morning.
His medical history would point toward him having an asthma attack under these circumstances, but he's decided he doesn't HAVE asthma anymore and, for the moment, that seems to be holding true.
I, on the other hand, have been scratching the roof of my mouth with my tongue (oh, just TRY TO IMAGINE IT) for two solid weeks and have wrecked such havoc that I'm finding solid food difficult to manage.
SO, my point is: we each took a Claritin in the morning.
I'm not good about medication. I tend to whinge and whine about the side effects and I often feel they outweigh the benefits. As a result, I have never taken this particular pill.
In the meantime, Youngest has been medicated his whole short life. And I mention this because I have never taken HALF the medications that Youngest has been on and have no clue how they've made him feel all these years and it gives me pause.
All these years of inhalers and steroids and treatments and I've never tried any of them - not that I would. BUT yesterday we each took the same medication. He took a nap and I spaced out for a few hours. He read a book and I met with the insurance agent (DON'T GET ME STARTED) and then we met on the patio.
How do you feel, I asked tentatively, I feel like my brain is a tiny marble rolling around in my empty skull, I continued.
I feel like I'm having an anxiety attack, said he, and I don't think I want to take this medicine ever again. My body feels hollow and I feel lost. (We know who is more articulate, don't we?)
FROM A STUPID ALLERGY PILL.
I cannot begin to imagine how he feels when he is on 35 mg of Prednisone.
I could really rant about this - how many medications do we give our children without really knowing how they make them feel?
Of course I can justify my decisions to medicate him all this time. Or not.
I'm going to shut up instead.
If anyone would like some Claritin I can mail it out tomorrow.
Comments
Hope you feel better soon. I, too, am cursed w/ allergies and just use a neti pot. It helps.
which is to say, i agree with what you're saying.
I can take Allegra, however. Somehow that works like nothing else. Claritin..furgedaboutit. It makes me furry all over.
OMG, my word verification is "pschbekd". I'm going to pronounce that "psych-baked".
Does this mean my brain is already the size of a marble?
Hollow and lost are not good things to feel. I hope Youngest finds something better and feels filled and found soon.
as a result I medicate my Youngest for hay fever because I only know what being unmediated feels like ~ not fun either way.
mom2
I have a kid on very necessary prescription meds and know all too well that kids and teens generally react differently from adults to adult meds.
Yeah, I know that was an oddly worded sentence. It's the Claritin D talking.
Get well soon, blackbird and fam (she said as she hacked up her own phlegm and blew her own nose).
jbhat
This is always a lovely place to visit.
Prednisone makes me feel like a speed addict. My doc gets mad because she writes the prescription, I ignore it, then when I go in with pneumonia I have to sheepishly admit that I didn't take the Prednisone.
I too am in the grip of an insufferable sinus infection that has given me a headache since last Friday and today had me laid so low I have slept most of the day away, so doped on codeine am I.
Suckage.
Mary K. in Rockport
P.S. I am addicted to reading your blog daily - thanks!
Sodding hayfever.
Zyrtec, on the other hand, is the devil.
My husband however has got it all.