*yawn* Morning. Allergy rambles.

[kyrielle]

I forgot to mention yesterday, I had another allergy shot session and the lady giving me the shots told me that somewhere between my current strength for two of the three, and the next strength, is where most people start seeing an improvement. Since the third one - which is still at a much lower dosage - is the grasses bottle, however, this doesn't mean much. The grass pollens will be rising by the time I hit the dosage she indicated on the other two, so my allergies will probably seem just as bad to me.

That's my reading of it - I didn't say as much because I really don't care if I'm wrong, I'm just tired of the flippy-floppy statements. I find her very strange to deal with. When I first started getting the shots, she would tell me that I shouldn't expect results for maybe six months or more, which is the official line as well so it made sense. As far as I can tell, if she thinks you're being optimistic she will dull it down, but if she thinks you're not being optimistic she'll try to encourage you. (I don't consider assuming I won't have any results until the six-month mark to be exactly pessimistic since that is what I was told to expect. It's not like I think it's worthless until then; as I said at one point, 'I won't be upset if it happens sooner, I'm just not expecting it' - which seems doubly relevant since the timing means we'll be going through the worst pollen days for most (not all) of the plants involved prior to that point as well.

I'm just encouraged that I'm in the next-to-highest concentration bottle for two of my three - enough that they've ordered the highest-concentration bottles for me. Those are the ones that you use when you're on maintenance, too. I think I could be by sometime next month...for those two. Sigh. The other one, maybe not so.

Anyway, that's my allergy rambling. Good morning and have a good day!