Hay fever

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w00tman

603 posts

144 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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Honestly I'm dying on my arse - been on 180mg of fexofenadrine for the last couple of years and it was a wonder - like a light switch turning off my symptoms. This year - no effect at all.

mushtafa

18 posts

21 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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I heard of Allevia from this thread so bought a couple of boxes. So I'm on 1x Loratadine, 1x Cetirizine, and 1x Allevia per day now. Still suffering

vulture1

12,125 posts

178 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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Cut the grass at 8 at night to avoid the day heat and for 3 hours afterwards I'm sneezing and sniffling

Joyrider1

2,900 posts

170 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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Suffered all my life, and never found any treatments any good for hay fever (other than Kenalog which was like night and day) - Then a couple of years ago my wife developed an allergy to our dog and was prescribed Avamys nasal spray. Thought I'd try it to see if it sorted me out, and sure enough after a day or two of taking it my symptoms disappeared. Have been taking it for a few years now (on prescription). Great stuff. A quick google tells me it is Fluticasone Furoate.


liner33

10,642 posts

201 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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Joyrider1 said:
Suffered all my life, and never found any treatments any good for hay fever (other than Kenalog which was like night and day) - Then a couple of years ago my wife developed an allergy to our dog and was prescribed Avamys nasal spray. Thought I'd try it to see if it sorted me out, and sure enough after a day or two of taking it my symptoms disappeared. Have been taking it for a few years now (on prescription). Great stuff. A quick google tells me it is Fluticasone Furoate.

Does it make you feel a little ruff in the mornings ?

Joyrider1

2,900 posts

170 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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liner33 said:
Does it make you feel a little ruff in the mornings ?
No, but I have started stting in the garden

tim0409

4,354 posts

158 months

Wednesday 29th June 2022
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w00tman said:
Honestly I'm dying on my arse - been on 180mg of fexofenadrine for the last couple of years and it was a wonder - like a light switch turning off my symptoms. This year - no effect at all.
I’ve also been on Fexofenadine for the last two years due to a dog allergy and it has worked really well, but the last month had been a nightmare. I’m not sure what’s causing it, unless I’ve developed hay fever?

scjgreen

571 posts

133 months

Wednesday 29th June 2022
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So I had my Kenalog Injection on Tuesday 21st and haven't taken Hayfever Meds since Mon 20th

Felt marginally better about 4 Hours after the Injection, woke up in the morning feeling absolutely mega and have felt great since!

Gamechanger for me.

liner33

10,642 posts

201 months

Wednesday 29th June 2022
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tim0409 said:
I’ve also been on Fexofenadine for the last two years due to a dog allergy and it has worked really well, but the last month had been a nightmare. I’m not sure what’s causing it, unless I’ve developed hay fever?
A mate of mine who grew up on a farm never suffered from hay fever until last year following covid, he is still learning about how to cope with it but he is really suffering , he also never had an issue peeling onions either but now really struggles , weird

tim0409

4,354 posts

158 months

Thursday 30th June 2022
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liner33 said:
A mate of mine who grew up on a farm never suffered from hay fever until last year following covid, he is still learning about how to cope with it but he is really suffering , he also never had an issue peeling onions either but now really struggles , weird
That’s really interesting as I had covid for the first time (that I’m aware of) last month, and the symptoms have started since then. I had a miserable evening yesterday; uncontrollable sneezing and generally feeling rubbish. I took my usual Fexofenadine and some cetirizine, and some lemsip as a decongestant which helped.

I need to isolate what is causing it as the symptoms are sporadic; I take my dog for a walk through an overgrown wood close to a wheat field, which is the likely candidate so will try some beach walks for the next few days. What a pain!

mike74

3,687 posts

131 months

Thursday 30th June 2022
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tim0409 said:
I need to isolate what is causing it as the symptoms are sporadic; I take my dog for a walk through an overgrown wood close to a wheat field, which is the likely candidate so will try some beach walks for the next few days. What a pain!
It can often be the pollen from just one specific species of plant that you're allergic to, very difficult to narrow it down I'd imagine.

I've actually found that I appear to be allergic to Sycamore, whenever I cut my Sycamore hedge it sets me off coughing and wheezing, where as my usual hay fever symptoms are sneezing and itchy eyes.



hepy

1,260 posts

139 months

Wednesday 6th July 2022
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I usually have mild ashtma, easily controlled, but over the last few weeks it has got much worse despite taking Citrizine and Loratadine. Used to be able to run 5k no problem, no out of breath if I run for more than 5 minutes.

After a couple of visits to our office last week, it got much worse, culminating in several coughing episodes where I can't get my breath - pretty scary.

Going to try Allevia but I also got a private prescription for Dymista via a video GP appointment via a medical service my employer offers. Been using this for a day and a half and still no better.

Booked in for the ashtma clinic in a couple of weeks, but if it doesn't get better fast, I'm going to have to try getting a GP appointment at the local surgery.

Must be some mega-strength pollen this year!

VR99

1,258 posts

62 months

Wednesday 6th July 2022
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hepy said:
I usually have mild ashtma, easily controlled, but over the last few weeks it has got much worse despite taking Citrizine and Loratadine. Used to be able to run 5k no problem, no out of breath if I run for more than 5 minutes.

After a couple of visits to our office last week, it got much worse, culminating in several coughing episodes where I can't get my breath - pretty scary.

Going to try Allevia but I also got a private prescription for Dymista via a video GP appointment via a medical service my employer offers. Been using this for a day and a half and still no better.

Booked in for the ashtma clinic in a couple of weeks, but if it doesn't get better fast, I'm going to have to try getting a GP appointment at the local surgery.

Must be some mega-strength pollen this year!
Very similar situation to yourself but further along in the journey.

Lifelong hayfever sufferer here, as a child I would get mildly wheezy during the summer/hot months but not to the extent I needed a inhaler though was given one by docs.
At some point during my mid-late 30's the asthma suddenly got worse, based on my inhaler use it would be classified as 'uncontrolled' asthma over the last few years. It is very frustrating, lockdown and the subsequent WFH plus other major life events have also resulted in weight gain, generally not in good shape and it's also impacting my workouts especially when trying to go for run's, the hayfever which has been really bad last few weeks also exacerbates the asthma and I end up with chest infections. But it's a vicious cycle....I need my cardio both to help burn some calories but also it tends to act as a feedback loop for my diet..when I train I automatically eat cleaner so with the asthma impacting both my weights and cardio sessions.

I will be speaking to my GP but not confident, I have regular asthma reviews and they recently gave me a new type of inhaler but it hasn't made a huge difference. I do wonder if diet and excess body fat are also playing a role so somehow need to just drop fat by cleaning up the diet and maybe using low intensity steady state cardio to see if that helps.

As for the hayfever, it's been v bad this year Vs last and the loratidine and cet.hydro have no effect for me so need to find something stronger.

Teebs

4,265 posts

214 months

Wednesday 6th July 2022
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VR99 said:
Very similar situation to yourself but further along in the journey.

Lifelong hayfever sufferer here, as a child I would get mildly wheezy during the summer/hot months but not to the extent I needed a inhaler though was given one by docs.
At some point during my mid-late 30's the asthma suddenly got worse, based on my inhaler use it would be classified as 'uncontrolled' asthma over the last few years. It is very frustrating, lockdown and the subsequent WFH plus other major life events have also resulted in weight gain, generally not in good shape and it's also impacting my workouts especially when trying to go for run's, the hayfever which has been really bad last few weeks also exacerbates the asthma and I end up with chest infections. But it's a vicious cycle....I need my cardio both to help burn some calories but also it tends to act as a feedback loop for my diet..when I train I automatically eat cleaner so with the asthma impacting both my weights and cardio sessions.

I will be speaking to my GP but not confident, I have regular asthma reviews and they recently gave me a new type of inhaler but it hasn't made a huge difference. I do wonder if diet and excess body fat are also playing a role so somehow need to just drop fat by cleaning up the diet and maybe using low intensity steady state cardio to see if that helps.

As for the hayfever, it's been v bad this year Vs last and the loratidine and cet.hydro have no effect for me so need to find something stronger.
I'm in the same place from a exercise point of view. I've gone from 500/600 miles a month cycling to zero.
I do wonder if there's any correlation between covid and hayfever, my lungs have never been the same since I had covid and this years Hayfever has just made them utterly useless. A steroid inhaler hasn't made too much difference sadly.

VR99

1,258 posts

62 months

Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Teens said:
I'm in the same place from a exercise point of view. I've gone from 500/600 miles a month cycling to zero.
I do wonder if there's any correlation between covid and hayfever, my lungs have never been the same since I had covid and this years Hayfever has just made them utterly useless. A steroid inhaler hasn't made too much difference sadly.
Interestingly I had Covid for the first time (that I'm aware of) about a month back, it certainly exacerbated my wheezing but my asthma was already bad for the last few years. There was a period when I was getting a lot of chest infections and also some exposure to building dust seemed to make it worse...I think that was a turning point for my asthma and the need to use inhalers daily.
Certainly the stand-out indicator for me is how much it's impacting my running, I was never super fit or quick but I've done a couple of 5k's. The wheezing makes it debilitating to run beyond a slow jog/walk and I believe you can do more damage to your lungs if pushing yourself hard when wheezy.

Ive also wondered if it might be worthwhile getting a private allergy test done....to see if anything in the diet could be contributing..I have a degree of lactose intolerance but that's about it....curious if gluten or anything else might be an issue. One other factor for me is that if I have a couple of beers, it makes both my asthma and hayfever worse....think it's due to the higher histamine and/or sulphites

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essexplumber

7,749 posts

172 months

Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Why is it so bad this year? My 2year old daughter has been bunged up for about 6 weeks and I had a very productive cough for about a month. Our doctor attributes both to hayfever!
Is it some sort of once every century super pollen or something??

Kev_Mk3

2,739 posts

94 months

Thursday 7th July 2022
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I take 2 x 180mg fexofenadine a day I've mountains of them as in the winter dont need them thankfully

liner33

10,642 posts

201 months

Thursday 7th July 2022
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Kev_Mk3 said:
I take 2 x 180mg fexofenadine a day I've mountains of them as in the winter dont need them thankfully
Mmm not sure that's a great idea , from what I read 240mg is the maximum recommended dose

PositronicRay

26,957 posts

182 months

Saturday 9th July 2022
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essexplumber said:
Why is it so bad this year? My 2year old daughter has been bunged up for about 6 weeks and I had a very productive cough for about a month. Our doctor attributes both to hayfever!
Is it some sort of once every century super pollen or something??
I think it's been the weather conditions, I'm not debilitated but worse this yr.

Strangely today I've been wandering though fields of long uncut grass today, often knocks me bandy but I'm okay. Go figure.

essexplumber

7,749 posts

172 months

Saturday 9th July 2022
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PositronicRay said:
I think it's been the weather conditions, I'm not debilitated but worse this yr.

Strangely today I've been wandering though fields of long uncut grass today, often knocks me bandy but I'm okay. Go figure.


It is odd how it’s affecting me this year, the coughs been the weirdest bit. Had me a bit worried as it went on so long but last weekend we spent on the Kent coast, literally stayed across the road from the beach and the area inland was basically flat fields so nowhere near the amount of trees etc as at home.
Every morning I woke up clear nosed and no cough, soon as we got home I’m snorting and spluttering!