Kenalog and severity

I've taken the kenalog shot for severe hay-fever and allergy-induced asthma three or four times in the last 7 years, always in the Spring when I reach a point that I can't take a single breath without coughing up phlegm from my lungs. Once I received the shot while pregnant. My doctor told me it was safe, and would have the side-effect of helping to develop the baby's lungs a little early. In my case that was a good thing, because I tend to deliver prematurely, and this baby was born 4 weeks early. She is four years old now, and healthy, strong, happy, intelligent and developing completely normally.

I have had no side-effects at all. Instead, I was *less* moody due to not being sick all the time with allergies and finally sleeping. I was finally able to sleep through the night without waking myself up coughing, or because my mouth closed and I couldn't breathe, which happened constantly. I stopped snoring, and could breathe and smell again, go outdoors without fluids immediately pouring from my eyes and nose and filling my lungs, and enjoy sunshine, blue sky and clean air again instead of being imprisoned in my house due to such severe allergies.

The shots clear up my allergy symptoms for 2-3 months, and by then the plants I'm most allergic to have ceased producing pollens for the year.

The severity of my allergy symptoms seem to cycle, so that I have only needed to resort to the kenalog shot every other year or every three years. Tomorrow (Monday morning) I'm seeing the doctor to get a kenalog shot for this year.