Thanks everyone. And yes I do remember you Savin4Disney, sorry I haven't been able to get to other journals all month.
Well this weekend was a flop. I started working out after posting here on Friday and I was so congested that I couldn't do it. I couldn't breath through my nose and I'm not much of a mouth breather that I stopped. I couldn't put my body throught that stress. Good thing I didn't do it because an hour later I was almost passed out from exhaustion and not being able to breath. I was so stuffed up that I had no airflow through my nose. So I had dd drive me (thank goodness she can drive now cause dh was out of town) to Walgreens and I got some Afrin. I really hate to resort to that because I got addicted to it once but I had to do something because I knew if I didn't I wouldn't have been able to sleep. So it took me at least 8 squeezes (way too many) in each nostril to finally open up. I slept 3 hours. I kept waking up with snot dripping out of nose (sorry if TMI) and saliva dripping out of my mouth because when my nose would congest or be too snotty my mouth would open so I could breath.
So got up yesterday, went to our GS annual meeting (very interesting and good), and was congested all day long yesterday. I finally gave up at 7pm and used the Afrin. Today was much worse. I was worse than Friday night. I resorted to the Afrin at 11am. I know tonight is going to be bad because I'm going to wake up around midnight not being able to breath (Afrin works 12 hours). But I have been able to blow some really bad stuff out. One of the cautions when I was on the prednisone was to try to stay away from people who were sick because your immune system drops. My dd was sick last weekend when I was on that and I caught her cold immediately.
Eating was not great this weekend - yesterday I did okay for breakfast. Went to Subway for lunch and then went and got a scoop of Baskin Robbins Praline and Creme (met my 100 day challenge by lunchtime). Dinner last night was our favorite item from our fav mexican restaurant but made at home - Nachitos Ole. BAD BAD BAD. Then I had 3 cups of popcorn while watching The Pacifier last night.
Today was okay but not great. We went to Ruby Tuesday for dinner tonight and I went to the salad bar two times for salad - it tasted so good. But I also had a petite sirloin (very good and lean) and half my baked potato.
I finally was able to get my CT scan scheduled for my neck and I'll have that done on Thursday and then make a followup with the ENT. Going to probably have to go to urgent care tomorrow for this congestion. I have tried everything that has worked in the past, including Vicks! And nothing is working except the Afrin - I get colds but I have never had one this bad with the congestion.
Weight is holding steady, up just a bit this morning but I'm going to see if it goes down and not moving anything. My hope this week is I can workout the next couple of nights. It will all depend on the congestion.
Hope everyone has a good week! This is my busy week. I'm ready for spring!
Keep on
Chris
and hello.
I don't think there is anything wrong with using the nose spray as long as you only use the recommended dosage and stop using it when you are not congested anymore.
