Dear Angela Joe, As you most obviously are aware the problem you are
experiencing is most likely primarily caused by airborne substances,
and in view of the effect severity, probably a petroleum or chemical
substance to which you have significant exposure.
You obviously have the watery eye, constant wheeziness with the
dopiness or constant drowsiness with all the associated whistles and
bells. How is your absenteeism at work? Delightful experience to
examine in retrospect believe me.
If you can establish any pattern as to when the problem effect is most
evident, i.e. during the night or early morning it may indicate a
possible bedroom problem source or wherever. If you can carefully
examine the previous two hour window prior to any attack situation it
helps identify potential items, especially if there is a pattern to
it.
Women have significantly greater problems than men, obviously related
to the collective irritant nature of chemical substances they are
exposed to in the form of body creams, antiperspirants, scented
shampoos and all the other chemically scented female paraphenalia, not
counting day to day cleaning substances etc. Once a sensitivity
develops the only real effective method for assistance is zero
tolerance, zero exposure, coupled with a desensitisation method of one
kind or another.
Never having any hot bathing or showering before retiring helps
incredibly by reducing sensitivity suscrptibility to substances in the
sleeping area, which commonly either are the problem or a major
component of it.
If you try the hot showering in the morning followed by a "full on"
coldest showering idea for a couple of minutes you will find enormous
benefit, especially in addresing the dopiness factor. If you would
like more info on this technique let me know.
It has amazing benefit for this kind of situation and is part of a
desens routine which allowed me to overcome a similar asthmatic
situation to yours, except I also temporarily relocated from my home
location which was actually causing most of my problem sensitisation.
(chemical residue)
Shortly afterward I sold that home and moved to a different location.
Using care, my asthma problem was no further problem and required no
further medicaion substances. Since that time I have examined many
hundreds of similarly affected situations and asisted many other
sufferers to identify how their problem was being caused with
excellent results for them.
As you mention, stress is always heavily involved and general health
is the third factor.
You obviously have less than zero resistance to any cough cold or
viral kind of thing.
You mention that you have a Hepa filter, does this filter contain a
carbon element by any chance?
I have observed situations where an obvious gaseous element was
involved in homes which had significant bearing on that persons
problem. An ordinary filter doesn't normally help with gaseous kinds
of items.
Natural gas residue from heating or cooking also has obvious
ill-effect in close home environments.
One interesting clue to determining this kind of thing is when an
affected person enters a home after it has been closed for a day or so
and suddenly has a multiple sneezing fit. In itself on one occasion it
doesn't mean much, but if this kind of thing is experienced as a
regular event it is damning evidence of some problem being apparent
there.
Learning to interpret body signals is an incredible assitive method of
determining these kinds of problems and is usually the best method of
identifying basic problem areas. We are talking sneezing, watery eyes,
sudden odd headaches, welting on skin, and numerous other signals.
One item that you should be warned about is your exposure to airborne
viral (or whatever) kinds of things with your current sensitised
situation. Your presence in recirculated air systems where there are
large volumes of people present and where the air quality is poorly
filtered, especially such as an airplane, is not in your interest. The
reason this becomes pertinent for your situation, especially as you
will shortly be in the cold and flu season, is due to the detrimental
effect these kinds of problems actually cause for you, decimating your
minute resistive ability and worsening your asthmatic problem. I can
accurately guess from my collected intelligence that you most likely
have a history of repeated antibiotic use which also has an adverse
bearing on your situation and could possibly have actually caused it's
onset.
Looking at the period a month or so after any antibiotic use, commonly
shows a worsening of asthmatic effect with a moderate asthmatic
person.
Cheers, Merlin.