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Hackney
Original Poster
1,772 posts
78 months
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Anecdotal evidence says people who haven't had it too bad are having a bad year.
My wife who doesn't normally get it is suffering a bit.
And, more importantly, I am suffering really badly. Sneezing so much (combined with a runny nose) that its wiping me out. Feeling slightly ashmatic. Went on a bike ride yesterday and was sneezing a lot. Got the beconaise out several times which usually sorts me out and last night took a second antihistemine tablet.
Took another this morning and had another blast on the spray and feeling crappy again.
Is there anything more a doctor can do? I remember my dad having an injection one year, a long time ago.
I'm cycling to Paris in two weeks and I know that I won't make it if I'm like this.
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Mobile Chicane
14,215 posts
82 months
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It is worse this year as all the rain we've been having has made the grass lusher.
I'm allergic to tree pollens - hazel and birch in particular - and find that a Sudafed (pseudoephedrine hydrochloride) tablet, topped up with an anti-histamine if need be, sorts it.
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Nimbus
1,122 posts
98 months
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and yet..... I was suffering really bad at the start of the 'summer', before the rains came... and now I'm fine...
different pollens for different folks I guess..
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Spitfire2
1,228 posts
56 months
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Nimbus said: and yet..... I was suffering really bad at the start of the 'summer', before the rains came... and now I'm fine...
different pollens for different folks I guess.. Same goes for me - usually worse now but I'm fine.
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Gargamel
5,538 posts
131 months
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yep a bad year I have had a couple of real bad days, high winds are a factor as well.
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vescaegg
2,195 posts
37 months
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Get your doc to write you a prescription for fexofenadine. Kills any feeling of hayfever in me (even if extremely bad 'can't see dying' kind of bad) in about 2 minutes flat. I had it bad as a teenager and its been dormant for ten years until this year! This stuff stops it dead 
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mrdelmonti
1,257 posts
51 months
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vescaegg said: Get your doc to write you a prescription for fexofenadine. Kills any feeling of hayfever in me (even if extremely bad 'can't see dying' kind of bad) in about 2 minutes flat. I had it bad as a teenager and its been dormant for ten years until this year! This stuff stops it dead That used to work for me but sadly doesn't do a thing anymore.
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DarrenL
459 posts
45 months
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Another Hayfever sufferer here!
I have found the following works well:
- Fenofexidine- although this year it doesnt seem to be as good?
- Double clarityn dose
- Vaseline in my nasal cavities (stops the pollen although it makes breathing "interesting"
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Halb
18,104 posts
53 months
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I used to get it. It went away, but have noticed driving in the car on the 62 it has come back a bit. Very irritating.
Anyone try the local honey method?
As in eat the honey syrup made from the pollen of bees from your local area over winter, not the local tart or anything.
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Shaw Tarse
19,324 posts
73 months
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Halb said: I used to get it. It went away, but have noticed driving in the car on the 62 it has come back a bit. Very irritating.
Anyone try the local honey method?
As in eat the honey syrup made from the pollen of bees from your local area over winter, not the local tart or anything. You're all doomed http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167211/Br...Though the local honey is supposed to work!
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jagracer
6,784 posts
106 months
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I use Tesco Hay Fever Relief, they're cheap as chips and work well. Where I could get away with one a day I've found this year has been worse and on bad days I need two a day although I get up at 3.30am and high pollen count times are early morning and evening.
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croyde
8,957 posts
100 months
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I normally get it back in April and suffer through the whole summer. Beconase spray twice a day, stops it for me. Amazing stuff.
This year it has only just started and there was me thinking that I had grown out of it finally.
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Happy82
5,231 posts
39 months
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I've had it bad this year too, although I get it every year  I feel sorry for kids sitting their summer exams, I did mine in 1998 and spent half of the time trying to find new places on my school uniform to wipe my nose 
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Fergie87
149 posts
31 months
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I've had bad hayfever for about 18 years to the point where I have had my eyes glued shut with sleep when I wake up in the mornings. Up until 5 years ago I had to just stop cardio exercise for 2 months of the year due to the asthma that came with it.
After lots of trial and error with tablets from the doctors he gave me singulair montelukast it is supposed to be an asthma drug but it cured my hayfever outright, with no symptoms left behind. If you suffer really badly I cannot recommend this enough.
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ParanoidAndroid
1,027 posts
153 months
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I get it really bad and have suffered every year for a long as I can remember. This year has been particularly nasty and pretty much ruined June for me. I seem to have developed a nasty cough on the back of it as well which has been lingering for 3 weeks now. Hayfever seems to be easing now though, I can finally open my eyes when I wake in the morning which is nice!
I did have the injection one year which completely cleared it but I don't think this is available anymore.
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theshrew
1,612 posts
54 months
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Ive seemed to get a bit better the last couple of years.
This year is probably my best year yet certainly not sent me under like it used to ( not yet anyway ) just a slightly runny nose and a bit of sneezing.
Maybe im growing out of it ? I have been eating honey pretty much everyday for about 6 months non local type possibly thats helped.
I try and stay away from the common tabs etc they make me feel like poop. Only take them when i really need to. This year ive only used Hey Max stuff bit like a balm you shove around your nose really works a treat.
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Sheets Tabuer
12,144 posts
85 months
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Mine started to go a few years ago and I thought I'd finally grown out of it, this year has been terrible.
I can put up with the headaches, sneezing, itchy mouth and throat but god do I want to take my eye balls out and give them a damn good scratch.
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dram
179 posts
112 months
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I have been a sufferer all my days about 40 years now , however last couple of summers has been less as I have got into a regime to minimise the hay fever.
All year in the evening I take one tablet of FEXOFENADINE from my GP ( I tell him that I am allergic to my wife's 2 cats ) . I feel that with this drug in your system permanantly it helps build up a resistance for the summer time...
April to August in the morning I also take one daily Tesco tablet for hay fever ( "cheap as chips ) as an additional resistance..
April to August once in the morning and once at night I take the BECONASE nose spray, from my GP ( good stuff..) My nose used to be so bad I was unable to drive on occasions...
If I am out in the summer I wear specs all the time - either my vari focals or sunspecs .
When cutting the grass I always wear a disposable mask over my nose & mouth ( probably look a bit of a prat ) but it works..
If you do have a bad day with the hay fever either a nice long cool shower or go to the swimming baths.
You need to work at preventing it
Many years ago I used to get a monthly steroid injection in my backside but most GPs dont encourage this these days unless extreme symptons or before exams..
Being a sufferer for many years I really do sympathise with sufferers as people do not realise how ill you can be with this ..it can be like a real bad dose of the flu
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Kneetrembler
1,562 posts
72 months
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dram said: I have been a sufferer all my days about 40 years now , however last couple of summers has been less as I have got into a regime to minimise the hay fever.
All year in the evening I take one tablet of FEXOFENADINE from my GP ( I tell him that I am allergic to my wife's 2 cats ) . I feel that with this drug in your system permanantly it helps build up a resistance for the summer time...
April to August in the morning I also take one daily Tesco tablet for hay fever ( "cheap as chips ) as an additional resistance..
April to August once in the morning and once at night I take the BECONASE nose spray, from my GP ( good stuff..) My nose used to be so bad I was unable to drive on occasions...
If I am out in the summer I wear specs all the time - either my vari focals or sunspecs .
I have been the same as you a lifelong sufferer another good tip is to buy a jar or tube of Vaseline and put some on your finger and stick it up each nostril and rub around to coat well, stops the pollen as it sticks to the vaseline, also I buy honey that is as local to where you live as possible and take a spoonful each morning so that you are eating what gives you the problem but in a reverse way helps to prevent Hay Fever.
As has been said you need to work at how to cure what pollen affects you.
When cutting the grass I always wear a disposable mask over my nose & mouth ( probably look a bit of a prat ) but it works..
If you do have a bad day with the hay fever either a nice long cool shower or go to the swimming baths.
You need to work at preventing it
Many years ago I used to get a monthly steroid injection in my backside but most GPs dont encourage this these days unless extreme symptons or before exams..
Being a sufferer for many years I really do sympathise with sufferers as people do not realise how ill you can be with this ..it can be like a real bad dose of the flu
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