zyrtec ugh

[telophase]

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.

Comments

[green_knight]

Just want to wave full of sympathy. (Detoured to buy some lotion this morning before sitting in library all day. It's not a cure, but it helps.)

And I hear ya on the Zyrtec. As far as I'm concerned, there are no non-drowsy antihistamines.

[telophase]

Thanks! Sympathy appreciated! :)

I've got a personal-size humidifier in my office, which helps the skin on my torso not itch as much (and my knuckles not crack as badly in the summer), but it doesn't help my legs much, seeing as how they're usually contained in denim. Bah.

You'd think that my body was perfectly adapted to humid climates, but I hate them. :P

[celestriad.livejournal.com]

well, although zyrtec is marketed as non-drowsy, it does cause about 10% of people to get some drowsiness. :/ have you tried allegra?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Years ago, and it had zero effect on my allergies. I don't know if it would help the itching. Hmm.

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

I always have itchy skin in the winter, and found that expensive hand lotions worked where the run-of-the-mill ones didn't. For a while, I relied on Burt's Bees Hand Repair Creme, and then I bought a really fancy tub of hand lotion at the Lush shop in a mall near me. Is there a branch of Lush near you? You could try going there when your skin is itchy and try out some of their stuff to see if it works on you.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Alas, the Lush store is in Dallas, waaay over on the other side of the metroplex from me, and is located at an incomprehensibly tangled set of highway intersections, so I hate going there. :/

I user Miracle of Aloe's Miracle Hand Repair for my hands, which has been the best thing to stop my knuckles from cracking and bleeding so much during the winter.