Allergies

I don't know if it's allergies or if i'm coming down with a cold but I've been sneezing all day long, my nose is so stuffed up and it itches. I'm not feeling like I have a cold, you know that feeling where your skin hurts and you are groggy and just don't feel like getting out of bed. I think it might be allergies instead. I think it's the dog because ever since we got her I've been sniffling more than normal and blowing my nose a lot and sneezing. I think it's her. I've taken 4 claritins today and I've used doctor prescribed nasal spray and that's not even working at all. I refuse to use 4-way nasal spray because I become addicted with that stuff and there is no end to it. I wouldn't say addicted, I would say that it helps at first and then you are using it more and more because it works for so long and then every time it works less time and you use more and it just goes on and on until you are on it for 6 months and you can't stop because if you stop then you can't ever breathe unless you use it. And when you do decide enough is enough you have to suffer for days until you can breathe normally again. No thank you. I will just cut out the middle man and suffer now rather than wait 6 months.