minor physical annoyances
Nov. 27th, 2024 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeprobably a little tmi, but stomach and allergy related
one issue is food related, sometimes depending on what I eat, I have trouble burping. This is mostly a problem as I'm laying down in bed, trying to sleep. I can feel the burp sitting in my stomach and it's minor discomfort but it keeps me up. I usually have to sit up and rotate my upper body around to get the burp into the right place for it to actually happen. This seems most common when I eat really thick heavy mashed potatoes but I know it happens other times, especially if I eat too much too close to bedtime. It kept me up late last night
The other thing is that my family does have allergies but they manifest in a nasty post-nasal drip and nothing else. It took my brother years to figure out he was allergic to his girlfriend's cats because the only symptom is the post-nasal drip. However, it gets really bad. I was allergic to something in my college apartment senior year and the drip was so bad that I had to sleep sitting up, otherwise it would clog up my throat and make me wake up retching. I had a hideous cough from it going into my lungs too. Typical anti-histamines don't work on it. just allergy shots.
Winter tends to make it worse and in the mornings I need to blow my nose a whole bunch and then cough some gunk out. I started working out again this week and boy howdy, I had to get up from my mat four times to cough and go spit gunk into the sink, which was very gross and not appreciated.
one issue is food related, sometimes depending on what I eat, I have trouble burping. This is mostly a problem as I'm laying down in bed, trying to sleep. I can feel the burp sitting in my stomach and it's minor discomfort but it keeps me up. I usually have to sit up and rotate my upper body around to get the burp into the right place for it to actually happen. This seems most common when I eat really thick heavy mashed potatoes but I know it happens other times, especially if I eat too much too close to bedtime. It kept me up late last night
The other thing is that my family does have allergies but they manifest in a nasty post-nasal drip and nothing else. It took my brother years to figure out he was allergic to his girlfriend's cats because the only symptom is the post-nasal drip. However, it gets really bad. I was allergic to something in my college apartment senior year and the drip was so bad that I had to sleep sitting up, otherwise it would clog up my throat and make me wake up retching. I had a hideous cough from it going into my lungs too. Typical anti-histamines don't work on it. just allergy shots.
Winter tends to make it worse and in the mornings I need to blow my nose a whole bunch and then cough some gunk out. I started working out again this week and boy howdy, I had to get up from my mat four times to cough and go spit gunk into the sink, which was very gross and not appreciated.
