Hayfever

Three days of bacon awe and the symptoms with stop, but it'll be shit for three days. Don't like stuff up your nose? Get over it, obviously your hayfever is not bad enough.

Three days of bacon awe and the symptoms with stop, but it'll be shit for three days. Don't like stuff up your nose? Get over it, obviously your hayfever is not bad enough.

Bacon awe!? Wtf I meant beconase, but bacon would be awesome

I think its eased off for me in the last few days. Dreadful this year.

Why are people using cetirizine and not loratidine? I guess like others I've had it bad since a kid...had the injections, triludan...all of it. Cetirizine just does nothing for me for symptoms, and makes me zombified - but loratidine does the opposite. 1 pill, sorted in 30 mins. For severe sufferers there's a lot of new stuff coming out...a lot of the new treatments are prophylactic - you start taking them before the season and they basically allow you build up a resistance. An old wives tale, but has anyone tried the 'eat honey made from near to where you live' thing? Not easy in London, but also said to work in terms of building up a resistance to local pollen.

Just been to boots, beconase contains the same active drug as boots own nasal spray bclomethsone or something similar. £4.30 instead of £6, get on it you sneezy mofos

Time to revive this thread!

I don't think the grass pollen season has fully started yet but I've noticed the first signs in the last few days.

If this year is as bad as usual (May-July, sneezing, red eyes and asthma) I might consider helminthic therapy from autoimmunetherapies.
Basically, they give you parasites. Hookworm, to be exact. Has anyone here done it? Its a bit expensive though.

#medicsceptic

can you point me to any randomised controlled trials that give evidence in favour of these expensive therapies?

To answer my own query:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22513973

From the above:

"There is currently insufficient evidence on the efficacy, tolerability and likely costs of helminth therapy to support its use in the routine management of allergic rhinitis. Administered to humans in carefully measured doses, helminths appear to be safe. More preclinical studies should be performed, before larger and extended duration trials of helminths for allergic rhinitis are carried out. Future studies should collect and report comparative data on the costs of helminth therapy versus conventional pharmacotherapy."

So, don't know if it will help you, but it won't hurt you.

I'm not sure I'd spend much of my own cash on that.

Eurggghhhhhhggccnnnnnnhhhhh.

+1000 0n rolfcliffmax scale

I went through an entire box of tissues today.

Boast post.

I just went and had my lunch in a wild flower meadow.

ooooops.

Mega High Pollen today I think, has been pretty bad up here.

It's a motherfucker

Shit, I forewent a pill today.

I've just double dropped

It's cooler and breezier up here today. Thank fuck.

It's alright here today - I've still taken 2 different antihistamines and nasal spray, but I haven't scratched my eyes once and have only blown my nose once. It feels fucking fantastic to be able to think straight after a few days of completely mental pollen.

It's gone heavy here today, feeling it big time.

Has anyone tried Yamoa? It apparently works for hay fever as well as asthma...

Sounds interesting. I might give it a try... I get wheezy every now and again at night.

Dose up, people - Birch pollen is here.

Eyes are itching like a mother fucker