Annual 'fcuk you, hayfever' thread.

Penny Tration

Anyone else in a heap with it?

For a month now, I've been on the antihistamines, the nasal sprays, the eye baths, and it's just getting worse.

Supposedly a low or moderate pollen count so god help me when it gets high!

Anyone else suffering?

Menas

My drugs have stopped working. Have a head on me like a clogged drain. Miserable time of year!

anncoates

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

eye baths

wtf

mirrorwall14

I don't normally get it this bad but after two days this week with streaming nose headache and sore throat I realised it was coz the landlord cut our grass and I was outside. Doh!

And pollen count was high on Wednesday so the redaction could still be calming for you?

Penny Tration

anncoates wrote: »

wtf

Wash thingies used to reduce the rawness and itchiness caused by the hay fever.

jester77

Sounds nasty, close the windows and doors and if you have an air circulation unit then add a pollen filter to it. Makes a big difference.

Menas

anncoates wrote: »

wtf

Optrex! Washes the pollen out of your peeper!

ThinkProgress

Stop overreacting!

Penny Tration

jester77 wrote: »

Sounds nasty, close the windows and doors and if you have an air circulation unit then add a pollen filter to it. Makes a big difference.

I'm alright at home. It's work that's the problem. I work next to a florist and in front of an open door :pac:

Penny Tration

ThinkProgress wrote: »

Stop overreacting!

If you could see how much gunk and blood my nose has produced this morning, you'd understand

dee_mc

I never had it before, what a dose. 11 sneezes in a row in work the other day! I don't have the option of closing the door when the pollen count is high unfortunately. Flixonase is good though.

ThinkProgress

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

If you could see how much gunk and blood my nose has produced this morning, you'd understand

Oh I do... Hence why I said you need to stop the overreacting! lol

kneemos

anncoates wrote: »

wtf

An eye bath.

jester77

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

I'm alright at home. It's work that's the problem. I work next to a florist and in front of an open door :pac:

ouch, is there a particular plant you have an allergy against. Maybe they would be nice to move it do the back of their shop, might lower the amount pollen getting blown around.

dee_mc

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

If you could see how much gunk and blood my nose has produced this morning, you'd understand

Hang on, blood? gunk? Is that normal? (Obviously I mean 'hayfever normal', not 'normal normal', I realise there's a distinction!)

Penny Tration

dee_mc wrote: »

Hang on, blood? gunk? Is that normal? (Obviously I mean 'hayfever normal', not 'normal normal', I realise there's a distinction!)

I've pretty bad hay fever, so it's normal for me. I basically sneeze until I get a nosebleed several times a day

dee_mc

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

I've pretty bad hay fever, so it's normal for me. I basically sneeze until I get a nosebleed several times a day

You poor fecker. A blob of Vaseline under my nose seems to help me quite a lot, although sadly it also removes my make up in that area :mad:

ThinkProgress

I find the best way to eradicate not just hayfever, but all allergic overreactions... is to damage your immune system so badly that it stops fighting everything! lol

Seriously, it's worth a try!

Penny Tration

ThinkProgress wrote: »

I find the best way to eradicate not just hayfever, but all allergic overreactions... is to damage your immune system so badly that it stops fighting everything! lol

Seriously, it's worth a try!

You first

Chris_Bradley

I'm starting to feel the wrath of the hayfever now.... my right eye was rubbed to death last night and is now looking like Mike Tyson had his fun with me.

The Black Oil

Every morning, it's a bastard of a thing.

Old Perry

Chris_Bradley wrote: »

I'm starting to feel the wrath of the hayfever now.... my right eye was rubbed to death last night and is now looking like Mike Tyson had his fun with me.

I know that feelin. i look like im stoned with the big red eyes on me

endacl

I used to get it as a teenager. Sometime in my mid 20s I realized I couldn't remember the last time pollen got me sneezing. Haven't had a dose since, but I remember just how miserable it can be.

It can just disappear. Hang on to that thought!!

Penny Tration

endacl wrote: »

I used to get it as a teenager. Sometime in my mid 20s I realized I couldn't remember the last time pollen got me sneezing. Haven't had a dose since, but I remember just how miserable it can be.

It can just disappear. Hang on to that thought!!

My dad had it from 15 years old and it disappeared when he was in his 40s.

Maybe I'll get lucky

blue note

This year was brilliant up to 2 or 3 days ago. I was just taking an anithistamine and was practically fine. Got beconase yesterday to add to it and I'm sneezing and itching and blocked up all day.

razorblunt

The older I get the less I seem to be hit by it (he says while knocking on wood).

Inevitably get bad days if I've been hanging around outside, but I find a change of clothes and a shower help alleviate things.
Biggest thing is keeping away from my eyes, if I scratch it even slightly I'm done.

cnocbui

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

Anyone else in a heap with it?

For a month now, I've been on the antihistamines, the nasal sprays, the eye baths, and it's just getting worse.

Supposedly a low or moderate pollen count so god help me when it gets high!

Anyone else suffering?

I used to suffer horrendously. Gave up gluten and now I only get sore/itchy eyes on the worst days.

Old Perry

There is a n injection that kann be got. Had it back in 2006/7 and it worked wonders tbf.

Old Perry

cnocbui wrote: »

I used to suffer horrendously. Gave up gluten and now I only get sore/itchy eyes on the worst days.

Thats an interesting one alright.

bnt

I get it a bit, but nothing compared to how bad I had it when I lived in Central London. I would wake up in the middle of the night drowning in my own snot. It got better when I moved to North London, and South Dublin is paradise by comparison.

Pumpkinseeds

Could try putting a little dab of vaseline in each nostril to trap the pollen from getting up to the sinuses, worth a shot.:)

Grayson

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

I've pretty bad hay fever, so it's normal for me. I basically sneeze until I get a nosebleed several times a day

I spent the last 3 months in SE Asia. Not a bother with hayfever. I'm back here a week and I'm in bits. All the doors and windows are closed and I still wake up with streaming eyes. I'm on 2-3 zirtec a day and it makes it better but not perfect.

Going to pop down to the pharmacy later and get some eye drops.

Coopaloop

Killed with it this week, fecking nightmare! Im pregnant too so that limits what I can take for it. :(:(

TallGlass

Try having this problem all year around. I got diagnosed with chronic rhinosinusitis.

I take two blasts of Fluticasone Furoate and 1 tablet of Citrozine never had a problem since.

It's a pain in the arse.

anncoates

Were you lot that kid - by which unwritten law stated there must be one in every class - who was called Snotser in school?

Penny Tration

TallGlass wrote: »

Try having this problem all year around. I got diagnosed with chronic rhinosinusitis.

I take two blasts of Fluticasone Furoate and 1 tablet of Citrozine never had a problem since.

It's a pain in the arse.

I have chronic rhinitis (so basically sinusitis), tbh it's not a big deal to me. The hay fever is the problem for me.

Penny Tration

anncoates wrote: »

Were you lot that kid - by which unwritten law stated there must be one in every class - who was called Snotser in school?

Nope that was a guy called Wayne in primary school and a girl called Margaret in secondary

Baron Kurtz

I haven't been hit with it so far this summer, but I think it has gradually abated over the years. Hopefully I'm one of those that shirks it as they get older.

I still have the antihistamines at the ready though. A few years ago I'd be popping them late April/early May:). My heart goes out to the severely afflicted!

sunbabe08

haven't suffered from hay fever in ages. stuffed nose & scratchy throat. voice nearly gone. :mad:

Mr. CooL ICE

Haven't needed antihistamines in 3 years, but I still go through the odd patch of sneezing with a little itchy nose and eyes. Usually passes after a day or two.

Grayson

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

I have chronic rhinitis (so basically sinusitis), tbh it's not a big deal to me. The hay fever is the problem for me.

Only problem I ever had was when I tried to take up meditation. All the instructions say breath though your nose. Easier said than done.

razorblunt

sunbabe08 wrote: »

haven't suffered from hay fever in ages. stuffed nose & scratchy throat. voice nearly gone. :mad:

Sunners that's probably a cold you got there! :pac:

Penny Tration

razorblunt wrote: »

Sunners that's probably a cold you got there! :pac:

Was thinking it sounded like a head cold rather than hayfever!

razorblunt

Old Perry wrote: »

There is a n injection that kann be got. Had it back in 2006/7 and it worked wonders tbf.

Careful with it though, it's known side effects for over use is osteoporosis (sp). My doctor recommended it for 2 of 3 consecutive summer (Junior Cert followed by the Leaving two years later, I used to suffer the worst in May and June). But after that he advised a break.
It was magic stuff though.

Bongalongherb

I used to get it in the far past but I don't suffer from it much any-more. I did notice that if I drank 8 beers the night before and woke up the next morning it would be 100-fold worse, almost closed eyes bulging red and sore as hell. My brother had it every day in summer 24 hours a day every day, he had it very bad, but even he himself now being a lot older doesn't get it much at all any-more.

It seems to go away the older you get.

Grayson

Bongalongherb wrote: »

It seems to go away the older you get.

It's weird with stuff like hayfever and asthma. For a lot of people the effects lessen over time. Others however can develop these conditions later in life, especially around middle age.

daheff

blue note wrote: »

This year was brilliant up to 2 or 3 days ago.

Me too. Thought I had avoided it this year.

TallGlass wrote: »

Try having this problem all year around. I got diagnosed with chronic rhinosinusitis.
.

I had chronic rhinitis as a kid...seem to have grown out of it?

Grayson wrote: »

It's weird with stuff like hayfever and asthma. For a lot of people the effects lessen over time.

I've been told since i was a kid i'd grow out of asthma....never had, never met somebody who had either. I think its a cruel joke they tell kids to get their hopes up.

However I can say I've learnt how to manage asthma better since I got older

Grayson

daheff wrote: »

However I can say I've learnt how to manage asthma better since I got older

I've known a few people who did. I also know a few people who developed it in their 40's.

ScumLord

I got hayfever for the first time this year, started about 2 weeks ago. Constant non-stop sneezing all day unless I held my nose, which ran like a tap. Tears streaming out of my eyes. It turned into what felt more like a cold after a week and I still have a chesty cough.

Menas

Another down side of suffering from hayfever is that you sometimes pray for rain, wash all that crap out of the air. Makes me very unpopular!

CruelCoin

Properly functioning respiratory system master race reporting in!

Not a touch.