We're allergic to our hotel room. Any advice?

[gement]

Update: got in touch with staff by means of the "May I help you" riff -- I was lying outside my hotel room with a wave of nausea, looking like I was drunk, so staff came to retrieve me. They were very kind once I explained.

We have turned on the room fan on high, and they have let me sit in the fancy lounge while I wait an hour to see if it's better. Migraine still making me want to hurl, but hopefully room more tolerable soon.

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[Hi, I am at Gallifrey One and that part is awesome.]

Neither of us can breathe. My girlfriend with the asthma assumed she was getting a bad cold. I tried to write it off as LA air quality. (I had no other cold symptoms.)

Then I went out to the hot tub. My chest pressure and wheezing cough went away. Girlfriend tested going outside as well, and her chest loosened up within 15 min.

... Then we had to go back and "sleep" in the room again last night because it was already 10pm. I tried sleeping with a wet bandana over my nose and mouth which often helps me with chemical stuff (it let me stay in a shared room when my housemate tracked in a trace of pepper spray once!) -- still barely slept.

I'm out in the lobby this morning, feeling the claustrophobia go away again. Very slowly this time, because everything's so irritated.

I don't know if the hotel has any rooms for people with chemical sensitivities. I don't know if it would help enough at this point. I'm afraid that if we ask, they'll try moving us to another random room for the last night of our stay. Just going back in there to pack up sounds like a nightmare. Going in there to sleep again also sounds like a nightmare.

I am remembering that last year our first hotel room hit us in the face with a horrific cleaning smell that closed up my throat. We walked straight back out and asked for a different room, which they gave us, and the second room was fine.

I have had almost no sleep, and I'm getting a migraine which I want to fix by doing floor stretches, but that would involve being in my room, and I can't think straight to figure out what to say to hotel staff so I don't just sound like I'm babbling.

Any advice?

Comments

[gement.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the script. Scripts good.

[eeyorerin]

Ask if you can move to a different room -- it may be something like mold in the HVAC system there or a water leak having caused mold behind the walls somewhere causing your symptoms.

Can you tolerate antihistamines? They will help with the symptoms. Or, some of them will knock you out, so at least you'll sleep.

Can you move up your travel plans and just go home tonight?

[gement.livejournal.com]

All good suggestions. I did take both Benadryl and cough suppressant last night. I suppose I should take more, along with painkillers for my migraine, but that would mean going back in there. Augh.

[eeyorerin]

I am allergic to many things so you have all of my sympathy. I hope you can find a different room and get your stuff out of there quickly.

If the room is making you sick, it might make other people sick too, so you're doing the hotel a favor by letting them know.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Ugh that's terrible. I hope they can find something to make your situation better.
I'm likewise with the benadryl suggestion, somewhat belatedly, but getting out of there is the best idea.