Feel Lousy - Is Everyone This Sick So Much of the Time?

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I've been feeling bad since about Tues. eve. Burning throat, tongue, nasal

passages, stuffy nose so bad it's like it's sewn shut but running a river of

clear mucous. I feel hot and I'm sneezing. Finally had to stuff tissues in my

nostrils to keep from soaking the pillows. (Sorry to be so graphic - I just

don't know what to do.) Can't sleep much of course with all this going on

including coughing and feeling like my lungs are sort've knocking together

briefly. For several weeks (months?) this spring I've felt terrible with

extremely painful sinus headaches. The Advair 500/50 knocks down the asthma but

even then things are not altogether right. I'm taking large amounts of

pseudoephedrine for sinsuses too.

My doc put me on zithromyacin 500 mgs for 3 days. Now I have diarrhea too -

will skip all the details but am sore where one would expect over that too!

Funny - I usually get along well with zmyacin but this time .... I was on this

same antibiotic but 250 mgs about 10 weeks ago. It helped but didn't really

clear things up completely, I'm afraid. My life is more about sickness than

wellness and I might be starting a new job in a week or so. I'm so depressed

and down.

I've had two (2) series of Xolair shots and am due for my third tomorrow Sat.

which I plan to go ahead and inject (2 injections every 2 weeks). But, if I

just knew when I'm really going to get some relief from these allergies and

accompanying (it seems that way for me, anyway) infections it would make life so

much easier to bear during the chronic illnesses. When I read about people

feeling better after the first or second shot I'm sure it's never going to do me

any good and that drives me crazy. No problems with Xolair - just no help so

far.

So, someone please tell me ... the inside story or whatever ... WHAT makes

some people respond soon to Xolair and why do others take longer? Is there any

indication I might be a non-responder? There HAS to be some research or

statistics somewhere that indicate who typically responds the fastest or at all.

Are people who are prone to sinus infections going to respond slower? Are

people who've had allergies since infancy slower to respond? Does more fat +

high IgE (i.e., slightly into the " do not treat grey area " make me less likely

to succeed? Is there any secret about injecting it that makes it work faster or

slower? Does age matter? I sure hope Xolair isn't making matters worse; I'm

assuming that the extreme pollen and weather this year are the biggest

contributors. I was sick before I started the Xolair too.

Thanks all - just sign me " Hopeless on Friday night! "

(I'll flush my pitty pot one of these days)

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