zyrtec ugh

So last night my itching skin was driving me so incredibly nuts I couldn't stand it.* I decided to take a antihistamine to see if that would help, so popped a Zyrtec. That worked: either it calmed my skin enough that I could get to sleep, or it put me to sleep.

And now, as always happens when I take Zyrtec, I am slow, sleepy, and have no volition despite sleeping for 11 hours. I don't know why Zyrtec hits me this way; Toby has no problem with it. (I can't take Claritin, as it gives me stomach cramps, and pseudoephedrine-containing items make me weird, pretty much destroying my ability to get things done in much the same way the Zyrtec is.)

Bah. I want to try to get some editing done on the book, and I need to go by SiNaCa and pick up the Christmas ornaments (see last post) sometime after 4PM. Argh, whine, whinge.




* Short version: low humidity=itchy skin for me. Lotion, oatmeal, baby oil, etc. doesn't help**, and if one more person tells me to drink more water I am going to explode because if I drink any more I will float away.

** Except for a short while, directly out of the tub/shower. No help whatsoever if I put it on any other time except that I am not sticky and itchy.