Hi! A quick question!

Medications

You will find ALLegra D way down near the bottom with a conditional use.

Here is a much much bigger question.

If you have allergies where you are now at home, what are you gonna do when buried in a Sonora Desert Dust Storm? Or in a smoky mountain tree pollen storm? Or something else completely outside of your normal stomping grounds at home.

This Land is full of places we go as Truckers and some cannot handle it because it causes problems with them in different ways. So one work around is not to go into those problem areas of the USA. That could be a problem in the Trucking Industry because we have to go where the load takes us.

Heck, even certain foods have caused truckers to fail orientation when they break out in food allergy or some crazy stuff. Several times a year people drop when eating and shipped to the hospital. That's one example.

I am medically disabled and I take like 6 seperate medicines, All of them plus three more on the counter disqualify me for certain from even touching a Semi. And 2 of them can and will trigger a DUI if I have it in my body while driving a car badly enough to be pulled over and checked. Im very careful about that.

One of the reasons I posted the way I did was I was raised in Maryland near the sea and the body got used to certain things. When I got far enough south and west towards Texas I had to adapt a little bit if I stayed in a area with a load long enough. Eventually after a few years of national work I guess I sorted that out pretty good. Until I married and moved to Arkansas to stay. It took me a few months to adapt to my lands and settle the body to everything. Im not particularly difficult with allergies but there are some days better than others. It took years before that really is no longer a problem.

The Body is a wonderful machine. We are supposed to have a allergy reaction when something comes into it and does not agree with you. It's the way it's supposed to be. If you are taking medicine for that while home all the time, fixing to roll out all over the USA and all the things that become possible... (Poison Ivy? Or even Sumac? etc) You would be surprised at what is out here.

I prefer not to worry about medicine for a little bit of sniffle now and then.

 

Understood.

Just be careful with it and get clear of there asap. Keep some extra on hand for the next run into that area.

It might help you keeping a small book recording the day you have allergy trouble and what you were doing. I once got sick in Arizona for a few days and they determined it was part of the ground itself that inflicted a problem on my body. A bit of medicine and rest took care of that in the early runs into AZ for me. I don't recall the exact problem named.

It was explained to me that when you take a person out of home ground (Such as a home city where born and raised) and put him or her into a strange place far away or elsewhere long enough sometimes something activates the body in allergy or immune defenses which are pretty specific. Sometimes the person staying in the new area long enough will adapt and improve.

My own situation is complicated by verified contents of my lungs which includes ash, lime stone powder and cement powder from the time of being inside without protection industrial areas where the stuff would fall or spray around me and you breathe it all in. It's a possibility you can joke that the Arizona, high desert dust has nothing in my concrete lined lungs. HA.... as one doctor caused me to laugh.

Its not a problem. But for you, I suggest a small empty book, writing down specifically what you ate, drink and did on days you have bad allergies. (More particularly WHERE, what town, weather, winds etc. Wild fires? Ground condition, season temps etc. I will bet the farm that at some point over time you will identify potential sources via patterns in your own experiences.

 

Am I the only one who got that joke?