BetteDavisEyes
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I'm not a physician nor do I play one on TV, but your symptoms sound like allergies. I typically have four bouts of seasonal allergies/cough variant asthma each year. I'm actually in the midst of the summer session right now - continuous runny nose, itchy watery eyes, dry cough mostly at night. My symptoms are mild and not troublesome enough to take Claritin or use Flonase, but I do use my cortico-steroidal inhaler once daily.I tested myself just this morning. For the last several mornings I've woken up with a stuffy nose. I've been pretty sure it's just from working outside in a dusty yard (digging in dry dirt as part of a landscaping project), especially because once I blow my nose, it's no longer stuffed up until the next morning.
But I was headed to a relatively crowded event this morning, an outdoor community breakfast, and the stuffy nose seemed a bit more than yesterday. So I tested just in case. Negative. I know the tests aren't highly reliable but lacking any other symptoms I decided that was sufficient.
Are you using an OTC allergy medication? DH takes Claritin when he is going to be cutting the lawn or working outdoors because he has allergies, too. He mostly sneezes - hard enough to blow the roof off