"seasonal allergies"

Fuckin bad at the moment innit? I dont get as bad hayfever since I moved to Melb but geesh, my EYES.

it's fall over here but why do my eyes itch? jeez

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

This is affecting my sinuses and making my face hurt wtf.

Today is "extreme" pollen count. "Stay indoors" says the weather page. Yes, I shall somehow get to work in a hermetically sealed bubble.

Ugh.

uggghghghhghggghhghg

I hate my left sinus so much

Should I take these Benedryl that expired in November 2009?

God, just realized that is such a "Yahoo! Answers" question. Nevermind. I'm just going to eat them. See you in the next life.

Hm... That didn't taste so good.

FUCK MY LIFE

hayfever is destroying my WILL TO LIVE

*shakes fists at sky*

Woah, hayfever is plaguing you now? Are you in Australia? Never heard of anyone having hayfever this time of year in the western hemisphere

fine, call it ALLERGIC RHINITIS.

We don't need to name names or label it, if it's that allergic reaction it's the motherfucker we have learned to hate. Feeling for u bro

i just took some flonase and a benadryl. maybe i can get some relief from said motherfucker.

Double treatment like that should kill off the motherfucker, if only for one night.

I've found that when the going gets tough, nothing helps, for me. Hayfever/season allergy treatment still seems so hit and miss it bugs me to no end. Ffs ppl, gather 'round and make a cure that actually always works.

All the best to you, sir.

that would be miss, not sir, but thanks.

Apologies, all the best to you miss!

Just that seasonal allergies floor me every year for two to three weeks, so I think I know what you are going through.

still do nasonex and one tab of zyrtec a day, year round. keeps it at bay. if I go off either for any longer than a few days I'm a runny nosed mess.

Hayfever mojo bad today. Everyone on the train was sneezing like mad. Thankfully, I dont get it bad here like I did back home in Canberra (I'm more allergic to native plants such as wattle and gum, much less of which is around me in Melb). If this rainy weather segues into weeks of hot windy weather we're all in for hell tho.

is the late arrival of autumn attacking anyone else's nose and throat?

Just the pressure point between my eyes. Ouch.

apparently this is one of the worst season for ragweed in recent memory, or so a friends allergist told her

me too - have had a nonstop runny nose and have gone thru a whole box of tissues in 3 days.

usually i only have allergy problems in the springtime, this caught me off guard.

claritin only here (besides chemo pills; I dont want more pills)

possibly ironically, I took a giant horse-sized antihistamine this morning for "photodermatitis" (according to my GP, who prescribed the antihistamines) and now my eyes keep watering and I feel like the top of my nose is going to explode, which I did not feel like before

(I started taking the antihistamines on Sunday but forgot yesterday's, so I feel like they're a possible trigger, but even if not, isn't this exactly the other thing I might take them to prevent? ugh. well either way I guess my skin bubbling up because I went outside in the sunlight is on-topic for this thread, or maybe there's a rolling vampire chatz thread I can take it to, I dunno)

Every once in a while I go a whole day where I can't stop sneezing and it feels like my brain's been replaced by a small furry mammal intent on clawing its way out of my head through my face. For a long time I thought it was a hay-style allergy or brought on by dust but it's been known to happen at quite random times in the year, plus I just got back from a spell away staying in some very dusty houses in the south of france and only had to take antihistamines twice in two weeks. So I'm stumped.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

i am getting "i feel like the top of my nose if going to explode" as well (i have been taking flonase).

is this really colony collapse? i hate and fear bees but i understand they're supposed to be bros. i am gripped with ambivalence.

sneezin' is the reason for the season

it's been bad this year. the sudden cold snap doesn't bode well for the pollen return.

idk if i have a cold or allergies. either way i got sudafed today. i think it's criminal that they actually sell the phenyelphrine based "sudafed pe" to unsuspecting customers who don't know to ask for the real stuff behind the counter. phenylephrine is basically a placebo.

a few months ago i had an operation to have a nasal polyp removed and some of the cushions at the back of my nose reduced, and since then i'm a MUCH happier bunny than I used to be. I'd been convinced of hay-fever but apparently it's a strong reaction to housemites that was making me sneeze. Strange though, that it varies from day to day. I still sneeze a bit and get an itchy nose from time to time, but it's nothing like the onslaught I used to deal with some days.

get bent, have you had a blood test for allergies yet?

lately i've been feeling extremely tired, like more than usual - waking up but unable to physically get out of bed and then feeling fuggy and abstract all day. used to get this off cetirizine but i'm starting to think that loratadine is causing these side effects.

not sure what is worse - feeling allergic or feeling like a weird sleepy ghost

also - fun heart palpitationy stuff which i've just realised is probably brought on by antihistamines. joy

My daughter has never really had issues before, but this season her eyes were getting so red, itchy and watery that she started using drops. They say this is the worst allergy season ever, at least in the US, so I imagine all these little allergy sleeper cells are waking up from coast to coast.

pro tip: anyone who has taken Zyrtec (Cetirizine) might want to know there's a new drug that's supposed to be a more effective version of the same thing, Xyzal (Levocetirizine). works pretty well for me so far. as always, it's been available in europe for a long time, so old news for some of us

Have tried xyzal in the past few months and it seems to work. Have to take right before retiring as it makes me extremely drowsy.

that's what the box says. I typically took allergy meds first thing in the morning so it's a switch, but seems to work

I've never had much luck with antihistamines. tried loratadine, cetirizine, fexofenadine, and diphenhydramine - none of them work for me.

i found one that works several years ago - chlorpheniramine - but it makes me extremely drowsy (and apparently due to its anticholinergic properties increases my chances of developing alzheimer's).

this allergy season is absolutely killing me regardless, though the chlorpheniramine is fairly effective when it comes time to take another dose (i take it 3 times a day) my sinuses are just on fire.

pseudoephedrine 12-hour extended release tablets are pretty amazing ime

in most of the US you have to go through the hoopla of showing ID at the pharmacy counter bc it can be used as a meth precursor but it is very worth it, works way better than most antihistamines

surely as it's just a decongestant this will only be effective for nose and sinuses? (i mean tbh that's where most of my troubles are but itchy eyes are a thing too)

it is also a vasoconstrictor so it helps with the redness in eyes for sure, for the itchiness i find astringent eye drops help a lot

Guy told me to use Zaditor for that. Seems to help somewhat

thanks for the info. i will give those a whirl.

my current routine:
xyzal before bed
zaditor in eyes when I first wake up, then wait a bit before showering and putting in contacts
pseudoephedrine 12 hour pill when I get out of bed

I make sure to shower when I get back indoors if I've been outdoors doing yard work or wandering around during heavy pollen times. Also flonase once per day.

fwiw that's a shitload of stuff but I have very few problems now unless I'm wandering around the wilderness for a long time