spring is in the air...

yes it is that time of year again...spring...the time of rebirth and renewal...and of course allergies...yeah...i do have to say that i love spring, i just don't however love the way i feel most days in spring.
okay so here is my rant for the year...(there is a reason that it is a year long rant, and after i finish i am sure you will understand)
as i have said before i work in the corporate world...it has a lot of good and bad things that go along with it...i get 4 weeks of paid vacation a year...okay now that is a very good perk! i work in a company that rewards stupidity (couscous is not a vegetable!!)...not a good perk...but whatever, neither of those have any thing to do with my rant.
at the start of this year, my insurance company stopped covering all allergy related medication. yikes! i however didn't know this, as usual i ordered my prescription refill on line to be picked up later that day, only to an hour later have the pharmacy call me telling me that before they filled my prescription, they wanted to make sure i still wanted it since it was no longer covered...huh, what!? not covered you say?! okay now that is an issue...so i call the insurance company, and i speak to a rather rude person who tells me to basically suck it up and deal...get over it, take 'over the counter' medication it is the same...wow...is it?! yeah that makes sense...so why do the drug manufacturers develop new drugs, if they really are all the same...she didn't have an answer for that, and she wasn't all too happy either when i asked her if she suffered from allergies...she promptly told me it was none of her business and hung up on me...now that is some good customer service!!
i didn't know what to do at this point...so in a panick i called my doctor, he is a great man and i knew he would fix this for me...i spoke with one of the nurses there, and she assured me that they would get this fixed...we hung up and i had high hopes...
10 minutes later my cell phone rang...it was my doctor calling back...as soon as i heard the nurses voice i knew my hopes were dashed...she spoke with either the same person or her evil twin at the insurance company, she receieved the same short harsh words i had and was promptely hung up on...just as i had been.
from here i really didn't have any other alternatives...i started taking the dreaded over the counter medication, after i few days i realized that this was not going to help my year round allergies. see what most people (especially insurance companies) don't realize is that a lot of people, like myself suffer from year round allergies, sure spring and fall are much worse for me,
but even in the dead of winter i find myself suffering from allergies...really as many have pointed out to me, i should live in a bubble!
so anyway, i am getting off the point...i suffer year round, so badly in fact that about four years ago or so i also developed asthma. now my asthma isn't as bad as it could be, mostly the days were my allergies are especially bad are those days that i also have asthma problems. but up until this point there had been no cause for concern...until now of course...
about a month or so ago, i came up with an ingenious idea, i would start taking a medication prescribed primarily for asthma, but that also had been proven to help allergy symptoms. at first it worked really well...that was until spring decided to spring! stupid warm weather...stupid plants, flowers and trees with their annoying habit of budding each year, producing that filmy green haze...arugh...stupid nature!
so, the new medication was working just well until that whole spring thing happened, now the past couple of days have been pure torture for me...yesterday i was so bad, my eyes were swelling up and i had hives on my stomach and neck...yeah, and over the counter medication works the same!
of course, i see no optimistic light at the end of the tunnel...no there is no light, only a hazing darkness brought on by severe allergies...
so if any of you have a solution (a legal one...i know all about buying drugs from our friendly managed health care neighbors to the north...) to my endless problem please feel free to let me know...i appreciate any suggestions...