Hayfever

I produced two huge blobs of ectoplasm this morning. That'll be why I couldn't breathe at 2am.

Day 1 of the season here, no fun.

I usually start around June 5-9th, but this year something is setting me off now. Which is a pain.

There's a pollen bonanza in sweden at the moment, my reaction is far worse than usual. At least my usual remedies helps enough. Double dose of cetirizine dihydrochloride ftw!

Is the big one Birch pollen up there? We had that start a few weeks ago - I guess it must start a bit later with the cooler average temps...

^ yep, at least for me. And grass. My dark gray car is now light green / yellow, same with everything else kept outside.

Yeah, grass fucks me up pretty bad around June... Always something to look forward to.

Its all out war out there. Battered from every direction and species. You've got to find what works for you but cetirizine for me makes me drowsy AF, which is a well known side effect of many antihistamines. Loratadine is my poison. Though I try to lay off it and build up some kind of resistance. Not taken anything yet, though did nearly rub out my own eyeball yesterday night in an itch binge.

Been ok since Saturdays blip. Waiting for Horse Chestnut then on to Grass season. Hope to be med free this year if I can.

Does hay fever ever just go away?

In Winter.

I read a theory (many years back) that it comes and goes in roughly 7 year cycles but i think thats utter bollox. There are definitely periods of my life when it hasn't bothered me at all, contrasted by periods where its totally dominated my life. How you rationalise the variability so precisely, i have no idea. My mum is nearly 70...she's had it all her life. You could always move somewhere with less seasonal extremes :)

I've had it for ten years. It just stated one day in 2005 and never went away.

I only get it in this country though.

And you came here in 2005?

I've been in London my whole life but when I've traveled during peak hayfever season, I've had a break from it and that isn't in wildly different climates. Probably just the change in plants.

It just started that summer...

You move house in 2005?

Nope! I would have been around 17-18 which is apparently when some allergies can arise...

Got you in the end :) My Mrs has a weird one...if she eats mushrooms (no - not those ones!) that grow on her folks farm, she projectiles...any other mushroom, fine. Rationalising the human body is like trying to rationalise HHSB.

I am now in the completely fucked zone. Blocked-up nose, so can't breathe, and can't open eyes when I awake as the eyelids have stuck together.

Something new in the air today for sure.

Yep, the grass has officially woken. Been taking Cetirizine Hydrochloride for the past month and reduced alcohol consumption in preparation for the impending polpocalypse.
Hopefully June goes by quickly and quietly. Wishing everyone an easy ride this summer...

I have a weird 2 weeks in March where I have it, started a few years ago. I also get massively sneezy/itchy in Russell Square, Highbury Fields and by Embankment station.

My workmate is suffering to the point where she will not go out for lunch today. Her tablets have not worked. Anyone heard of an injection you can have?

Anyone heard of an injection you can have?

I had injection in '93 for gcse season. It worked.

Found this year going out for a run at first symptoms has been helping lots.

The Benydryl pills with Acrivistine have done me well, minimal drowsiness compared with Cetirizine.

Mine kicked in like a cunt yesterday...2 Benadryl did nothing