"seasonal allergies"

has anyone being getting weird night allergies? im ok during the day but as soon as i get sleepy the top of my mouth hurts and i get sneezy. very weird.

Thx for the honey tip, Alex (v. amusing blog post too, I was getting sympathetic sinus twinges just reading it). Am tempted to track down some local honey if I can, though as you say might be a bit late to start spooning it down now. Would this year's be effective next year, or do the bees use different plants annually?

No night allergies here, but I do sometimes have sneezing jags as soon as I get up, which is great fun at six in the morning.

it doesn't seem too bad this year (yet) but yeah, i'm sneezy when i get up and when i get tired at night

So I've been plagued by these seasonal allergies for the past 7 late springs/early summers. Tried every single OTC allergy med there was to offer, nothing worked and I inevitably spent 7-9 days in total misery - watering, sneezing, dripping. Finally sucked it up and went to the doc this year. He explained that antihistamines work for 85% of the population, but some people need topical steroids. He prescribed Flonase and it has worked like a charm. I'm breathing through both nostrils for the first time in 2 weeks!

collony collapse is a good theory, it does seem like everyone's season allergies are way worse in the past two years than they ever used to be, despite the new antihistimes available.

i was using zyrtec for the past couple of years and it worked great until the past few months. useless now.

dying here

been eating raw honey + cayenne pepper

taking otc claritin by the pound

do they make everyone feel super tired?

When you are hard core on the antihistamines their drowsy effects wear off after a time. But the effect of the pollen itself can leave you tired, as if your body has been fighting an infection.

def, in my experience they fuck with your energy level

i didn't take any antihistamines! trying to find the box of otc meds i thought i had. i feel like a zombie, i've never had it this bad

do they make everyone feel super tired?

everyone = i dunno. me = for sure.

gonna try the local honey/pollen trick when I return to the jersey burbs for the summer.

i took some store brand clorpheniramine maleate and phenylephrine ("compare to sudafed PE") and *now* i'm tired

grrrr why now?? spring's 2/3rds done already!

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?