My aller­gies are out of con­trol this year. Since the start of nice weather a few weeks ago I am pretty uncom­fort­able most of the time. My eyes water any­time I am out­side. I am hav­ing to take anti­his­t­a­mines and decon­ges­tants every 4 hours like clock­work just to be able to breathe.

When I went on a long bike ride with Emily over the final 30 min­utes I had a vio­lent reac­tion as if I had rubbed a cat all over my face. Puffy eyes water­ing con­tin­u­ously, inflamed skin on my face, nose stuffed up. My throat closed up a bit too. \

I was a bit scared by the time I got home. I washed my face sev­eral times with soap and water, took an anti­his­t­a­mine, drank a bunch of water, and stag­gered to bed where I slept for 3 hours. I felt bet­ter when I woke but felt phys­i­cally drained like one does after a big ill­ness. That was the major start of this all.

Today I woke up with a cough on top of my sinus prob­lems. It was a weird wrack­ing cough that seemed to come from my lungs with a wheeze on top. After a bit of that I got the impres­sion my throat was closed off and I couldn't breathe very easy. I pon­dered this for a while, still cough­ing. Finally I took my morn­ing drugs (antihistamine+decongestant) and after a while my throat eased.

This lat­est event of my throat seem­ing to close off is mak­ing me rethink what is going on. If it hap­pens again in the next few days I might need to get some med­ical advice. I should prob­a­bly see my doc­tor when I'm back in KC. I have had a long-running sinus infec­tion which seems to be part of this as well and I just can't shake it.

Over­all, my aller­gies have really shut down my desire to go out­side and seem to drain a lot of my energy so I have been rather a slug lately. It is hard work drag­ging myself to the gym. And run­ning for exer­cise — for­get it. I would prob­a­bly seize up and die, or at least my eyes would water so much I would crash blindly into signs.

It will be inter­est­ing to see if this all goes away when I get away from Munich and go home for a week. Luck­ily that is not far off or I would bite the bul­let and see a doc­tor here. I can hold off though, unless things get worse.