Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Sinus Problems and Drugs

In general I really like the springtime but every year is a battle with sinus problems. Others have much worse problems I'm sure but I just have a steady bout with nasal congestion and drainage into the lungs.

A couple nights ago I got frustrated and didn't want to deal with a chest full of glop in the morning and popped a Claritin at about 8pm. The 24hr Claritins have 240mg of pseudoephedrine and that stuff makes me fly like drinking a case of Coke. It takes a little for the drugs to kick in and in this case it was after I went to bed at 10. After laying in bed and listening to the radio I fell asleep about 10:30 and all was good. Then in the middle of the night, or so I thought, the pseudoephedrine must have taken effect. I rolled over raised my eyelid and saw it was only 11:30. This was going to be a long sleepless night.

I was in a strange dreamland state where I was very aware of things around me but still too groggy to do anything.