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[rootofnewt]

There are worse ways to spend a night, but the one I experienced involved waking up after three and a half hours of sleep, gagging on mucus and having sneezing fits. After a couple visits to the bathroom to blow my nose and 45 minutes of tissue tossing, I grabbed my pillow, socks, a sheet, and my afghan and fled to the couch, where I could toss and turn on my recliner and be cold. I eventually got up, grabbed a polarfleece sleeping bag from on top of the HEPA filter... got up again and turned on that filter (we usually turn it off at night, we leave the bedroom unit on 24-7)... got up again to find some sweats... and I slept fitfully until nearly nine AM, waking up in fits and starts to desperately reach for tissue.

A night of mouth breathing and gagging has left me with TM(J)D issues this morning. The only thing which is clearing out my sinuses is walking. Damn turbinates, requiring motion to work... And I'm too tired and achy to keep doing that.

I'm well hydrated, taking decongestants, taking both first *and* second or third gen antihistamines at night, irrigating my sinuses daily, washing bedlinens (including blankets) regularly, showering before bed so I don't drag pollen to bed... what am I doing wrong?

nasal sprays aren't an option. i'm going extremely light on dairy (very, very little, if any at all). i'm allergic to diphenhydramine, so my first gen antihistamine of choice is chlorpheniramine.

And this isn't even peak season... it'll be much, much worse in a couple weeks. I can still wear my contacts, provided I use my patanol eye drops right now. Soon, I won't be able to wear them at all for a week or so.

Ugh.