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kev1974 said:
How often do you have to replace the HEPA filter, it says 18 months, is that accurate in your experience?
I've had the machine about four months. I run it when I start sneezing, so it's had about 200+ hours use. Both filters are still clean, so I estimate at least a summers use out of them. I run it on low at night in the summer, or on full blast as soon as the sneezings start. This particular machine has a cut-off timer. I used to be laid low with HF - flu like symptoms. This has been a big help. (For me.)
The HEPA filters are £20. In the pic, the (supplied) carbon filter is the black one, the replaceable HEPA filter is the white one. The air comes out of the 'exhaust' at the top. Quiet enough on low to sleep with.
So if it lasts a year it's cheaper than the pills/sprays. Machines might be a bit cheaper on the HoMedics site.
First time sufferer here.
I get it most when I go training around the woods/fields north of here. Has put a big dampener on my training experience.
Spoke to Doc, issued me with Fexofenadine 180 (antihistamine). Knocked the runny nose on the head, and the eyes sufficiently to allow me to continue training. However, my eyelids and surrounding still swell up. Feels like someone is holding my eyelids open and aiming a hairdryer at them. Effects my eyesight too.
Anyone suffered similar, can recommend something?
I get it most when I go training around the woods/fields north of here. Has put a big dampener on my training experience.
Spoke to Doc, issued me with Fexofenadine 180 (antihistamine). Knocked the runny nose on the head, and the eyes sufficiently to allow me to continue training. However, my eyelids and surrounding still swell up. Feels like someone is holding my eyelids open and aiming a hairdryer at them. Effects my eyesight too.
Anyone suffered similar, can recommend something?
Horsey McHorseface said:
First time sufferer here.
I get it most when I go training around the woods/fields north of here. Has put a big dampener on my training experience.
Spoke to Doc, issued me with Fexofenadine 180 (antihistamine). Knocked the runny nose on the head, and the eyes sufficiently to allow me to continue training. However, my eyelids and surrounding still swell up. Feels like someone is holding my eyelids open and aiming a hairdryer at them. Effects my eyesight too.
Anyone suffered similar, can recommend something?
I’ve had hayfever for years now, last few years haven’t been too bad. I get it most when I go training around the woods/fields north of here. Has put a big dampener on my training experience.
Spoke to Doc, issued me with Fexofenadine 180 (antihistamine). Knocked the runny nose on the head, and the eyes sufficiently to allow me to continue training. However, my eyelids and surrounding still swell up. Feels like someone is holding my eyelids open and aiming a hairdryer at them. Effects my eyesight too.
Anyone suffered similar, can recommend something?
My worse symptoms are eyes and sneezes!!
For my eyes I’ve learnt being slightly dehydrated has a massive impact on how bad they get so as soon as my eyes salutary getting bad I know I haven’t been drinking enough.
I’m not saying you’ll be the same but something worth taking note of and monitoring.
For the past week or so I've been sitting across the room from an open patio door, photographing birds outside using a remote controlled camera. I've had itchy eyes for a few days so this morning, I didn't open the door. Result, no more itchy eyes - I'm slow at times...
I don't suffer every year, sometimes not at all throughout the summer but one year, way back in the 1960s, I woke in the middle of the night unable to see, my eyes felt as if they'd been pepper sprayed. My Dad took me to hospital where a doctor said, "Oh no, not another one..." Apparently the pollen count was the highest it had ever been. He gave me some pills and told me to make sure I was in bed when I took them - I woke up 48 hours later, head like the most throbby of throbbing things but at least I could see and the 'pepper eyes' was much better. After another 24 hours was all but gone. I've never had another episode like that, it was frightening.
I don't suffer every year, sometimes not at all throughout the summer but one year, way back in the 1960s, I woke in the middle of the night unable to see, my eyes felt as if they'd been pepper sprayed. My Dad took me to hospital where a doctor said, "Oh no, not another one..." Apparently the pollen count was the highest it had ever been. He gave me some pills and told me to make sure I was in bed when I took them - I woke up 48 hours later, head like the most throbby of throbbing things but at least I could see and the 'pepper eyes' was much better. After another 24 hours was all but gone. I've never had another episode like that, it was frightening.
This year has been particularly bad for me so far. Over the years I've tried various medications, and have settled on Beconase (or generic equivalent), but this year even with that, I'm still itching and sneezing. I'm also mildly asthmatic and have had to use my Ventolin far more frequently than in the past.
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