Hayfever

I've bottled it and taken the double drop route. Absolutely zombified. #drool

Is anyone suffering right now? The last three days my eyes have been murderous and sneezing (and a couple of snarts) and runny nose. I think it's a bit late for pollen so assuming it might be fungal spores. It's as bad as any time during the "season".

Felt the slightest bit tight chested but I thought it was just the terrible, awful, toxic London air...

Cetirizine and some brand spankers eye drops and I've improved. I'll have to keep them with me at work tomorrow. Something's got me that's for sure. Just about to sneeze now, arsebiscuits.

I'm a bit hayfevery at the moment. About as bad as I get. I don't normally get like this at this time of year.

I'm really struggling with hayfever today, I'm blaming the lavender field I walked past. My eyes are swollen and weepy and my nose is all scabby from where it bled from me blowing it so much. Not v happy about this.

Urgh. Birch tree-jizz. Eyes won't stop itching.

Balls. I'd thought (hoped) it was a bit too cold for that. Damn you photoperiodism!

Has it been birch over the past week or so? There's definitely something in the air...

Just checked - hazel, alder and elm, apparently. At least one of those is making life fun at the moment.

I thought I was getting away with it but yesterday I got got.
Double dropped and slept like I were dead, woke up just as bad as yesterday.

I woke up at 1am unable to breathe properly. Dropped a citerizine and woke up groggy as hell.

Gah.

I'm on four cetirizine dihydrochloride 10mg (40mg) a day and Murine eye drops and just about coping. Justice(ret) never sleeps.

Does doubling the dose of cetirizine help? My dr told me otherwise, but I've been doubling up for a few years and I think it makes a difference. Could be placebo though...

Not sure but I double up during high season and it seems to help.

I've only started on desloratadine recently due to various nasal/throat isses and my doc said double up (from 5MG) when it felt bad as it should help.

I get my fix on prescription and my doc says "if it works do it, they won't kill you" so I have been on four a day for the last 18 months and they work well.

Must remember to not take fexofenadine this year.

I am fucking fucked.

Doesn't work for everyone but I find Honey the best cure, the more local the better hopefully will never need the Des/Fex again,

the nose gun is out

I should not have spent yesterday evening reading in a rose garden.

Fuck. My. Actual. Life.

Yep. I am weeping all over the shop.

I don't mean to flood the thread with pseudoscience but this year I have been the least affected by hayfever since I started getting it during adolescence.

A couple of years ago, I started to take probiotics twice a day after hearing and doing a little digging in to the gut's relationship with the immune system (and not being able to afford helminth treatment). Processed sugars have also been greatly reduced to very occasional bits of posh chocolate but other than that, no major dietary changes.

My hayfever is caused by grass pollen, and usually the months of May, June and some of July are spent huffing an asthma pump and constantly being short of breath, amongst all the usual sneezing and itching.

Last summer was an enormous improvement – very little asthma symptoms but still a lot of sneezing and itching.

This year has been a transformation. It could be a coincidence – after all, I never had allergies as a kid and one day it just started so maybe it can stop in the same manner.
Not one bout of asthma this year. I did fuck-up and drink loads of red wine which brought on some tightness of the chest but that wore off on its own fairly quickly. DON'T DRINK ALCOHOL. Red wine, especially, for some reason.
There's been a bit of sneezing and itchy eyes but we're talking an order of magnitude less than previous years.

The only downside is now I'm too scared to stop taking the probiotics so I'll be coughing up for the rest of my life for them...

But anyway, the hayfever is pretty much gone. Not sure about the dog allergy.