Hayfever

A day in brockwell park today makes me think I’m going to be suffering.

Sneezing here.

Savage day here today. Sneezing/Nose and slight eye irritation too.

Savage is correct.

Yeh mine kicked in yesterday

I've been sort of ok recently but the sun has really brought all the pollen out. Had to stop to pour water into my eyes on this morning's ride as I couldn't keep them open due to the stinging / eye watering. Not ideal when you're going downhill at 30-odd mph.

Dying today. Absolutely fucked despite three antihistamines 😭

I’ve got Water Wipes which are pretty good for futile attempts at clawing the pollen out my eyes.

This evening though it feels like I’ve got hair stuck in the back of my throat that no amount of coughing will clear…

Feeling it today.

Was very bad on Sunday. Grass pollen presumably? My six year old boy was struggling with it to.

I've gotten away with it so far this year until yesterday and now it feels like I've got 3 months of it all in one go. Absolutely rotten.

Apparently its a 'pollen bomb' this week.
Certainly feels like it.

Daughter has been having nosebleeds every morning too, mostly likely due to sneezing loads, irritation and rubbing and sticking her fingers in her nose while sleeping.

Anyone had any first hand experience with some sort immunotherapy at an allergy clinic? Basically it trains your body to desensitise to the pollen.
It can take 2-3 years but the definitely better then steroids and anti histamines every year.
I will enquire with my gp.

1 x kenadol injection = Hayfever gone

I guess you mean Kenalog, which I just had done the other day.
Too early to tell if its working.

I'm planning to do a park run tomorrow, and if I don't end up wheezing and sneezing for the rest of the day, I'll consider it successful.

My b. You absolutely right.

Mine took about a week to properly work. But now hay fever is a distant memory.

You may find that within 2/3 you get a bit of a tickley throat an and a cough, it will pass.

Had to just stop taking antihistamines (Loratidine) as they put me into a psychologically pretty risky place. Been waking up feeling really low and just experiencing a weird fogginess, lack of clear cognition and overall very low mood to put it politely. No history of depression but have had to put a hard stop to pills now.

Pretty strange experience. Anyone had similar?

I didn't enjoy Loratadine bitd, made me very, erm, intense. Nettle stings & the odd bad day much preferable.

I've not, but I've always been rubbish at putting two and two together (I take loratadine exclusively when I have symptoms).

Time to experiment (or at least pay attention).

Hayfever has been pretty horrendous the last couple of weeks. I stopped taking Ceterizine a couple of years ago as it was making me very drowsy and fatigued, switched to Lotoradine which was an improvement but not as effective for hayfever symptoms.

I tried Fexofenadine (Allevia) for the first time last week, huge improvement, no drowsiness and kicks about 90% of the hayfever symptoms. Seems to kick in pretty quickly in a morning, where the other two took a few days of consecutive use to build up effectiveness, and no drowsiness. Definitely noticeable when it wears off after about 12 hours though.

Had a similar realisation a few years ago. I've taken it and Cetrizine for years but never very consistently.

I'm not great at checking in with myself but started to notice I was irritable, had brain fog and random bouts of feeling really low. I've got limited experience with feeling like that but I do remember it being horrible. Seem to recall feeling quite a bit better soon after stopping

Haven't tried any allergy medication since and am a bit more focussed on symptom relief now (cold eye compresses, big sunglasses, vaseline inside the nose) - none of which are helping much this year

Definitely noticeable when it wears off after about 12 hours though.

Wonder if I should start taking a 2nd one before bed. Noticed my sleep has been lousy the last couple of weeks, and (though I take it with a pinch of salt) stats like HRV and RHR on the Garmin are both consistently worse than they would be normally.

Also noticed my sleep scores for HRV have been in the drain, which is odd because sleep is mostly ok. Already feeling much better mentally after 48 hours off.

Fwiw there's a bit of covid about at present... maybe a low symptom hit?

Has anyone (successfully) used any of these air purifiers (blueair/dyson/another) to help alleviate hayfever symptoms. Must be my worst year and I’m looking at all avenues to help! Thanks