:censored: Hay Fever

[Howard-]

ARGHH!

It's especially bad this year. I'm quite literally dying of it. Normally the bloody Flixonase quells most of it but this week especially it seems to be having precisely fk all effect! Eyes watering and itching so badly I want to scratch them out with a fork and drop-kick them as far away as possible, nose running, sneezing. fking s.

Am I alone? Please say I'm not alone. I need a cure. A Definitive cure. Or I'm going to go mad. It's not even summer yet!

[Blib]

Sounds like you are allergic to volcanic ash.

You're stuffed sunshine. There's no escape.

[Howard-]

Blib said:

Sounds like you are allergic to volcanic ash.

D'ya know, the thought did cross my mind

[Simbu]

Planning a trip to the docs soon to get me script'd up on my yearly anti-hayfever drug of choice - Fexofenadine Hydrochloride. Doc put me on this stuff after everything else (and i've tried ALOT of other stuff over the years) just wasn't strong enough. By contrast this stuff is a lifesaver. No side affects either

[arguti]

You could try Triamcinolone (Kenalog)intramuscular injection; has been used with much success in hayfever although the research evidence is patchy.

[Pints]

Howard- said:

I'm quite literally dying of it.

No, you're not.

[Howard-]

Pints said:

Howard- said:

I'm quite literally dying of it.

No, you're not.

I wish I was.

[flakeypaul]

I've had a really bad chest today - each breath leaves me feeling like i've only taken half a breath. I don;t normally get this till mid july (hayfever tends to flare up mid may - mid july, then the 'asthma-type-ste' flares up).

The volcanic dust did cross my mind - have never had a chest this bad this early. However it is now evening and it has completely gone away - could be the pollen! Maybe i'll die.

[Munter]

Howard- said:

Pints said:

Howard- said:

I'm quite literally dying of it.

No, you're not.

I wish I was.

If it's making you suicidal it could be argued that your ARE literally dying of it. However we'll need pics of your death to settle it. Custard test pics mind. No using someone elses!

[Mobile Chicane]

Sounds like an allergy to tree pollen. I get this, but strangely enough I don't get hay fever during the grass season.

All antihistamines make me drowsy to some extent, but a bog-standard Sudafed tablet (Pseudoephedrine hydrochloride) controls the allergy symptoms most of the time and works out far cheaper than antihistamines. If it's really bad, I add half a Clarityn tablet (Loratedine).

[minimatt1967]

Munter said:

Howard- said:

Pints said:

Howard- said:

I'm quite literally dying of it.

No, you're not.

I wish I was.

If it's making you suicidal it could be argued that your ARE literally dying of it. However we'll need pics of your death to settle it. Custard test pics mind. No using someone elses!

What do you suggest drowning yourself in a swimming pool full of custard?

[Howard-]

Munter said:

Howard- said:

Pints said:

Howard- said:

I'm quite literally dying of it.

No, you're not.

I wish I was.

If it's making you suicidal it could be argued that your ARE literally dying of it. However we'll need pics of your death to settle it. Custard test pics mind. No using someone elses!

I'll post the results in this thread in the morning if I wake up with my eyes and nose streaming and itching like hell again

[Shabs]

I am not sure but I may have the same thing, and it is killing me dead. I thought it was hay fever, but fook me it feels more like a severe cold. Normal anti-histamines have done nothing so now I am on cold and flu tablets just so I can get some sleep.

[Munter]

Mobile Chicane said:

Sounds like an allergy to tree pollen. I get this, but strangely enough I don't get hay fever during the grass season.

Indeed. Pick your poison:

[Mobile Chicane]

Munter said:

Mobile Chicane said:

Sounds like an allergy to tree pollen. I get this, but strangely enough I don't get hay fever during the grass season.

Indeed. Pick your poison:

Yeah that. Birch and horse chestnut are fkers.

[Scraggles]

got the pills from last year, no urges to take them yet, will see how long I can go

might have been the honey cappings that I ate for most of last winter that sorted it ?

[croyde]

It does seem to early this year. Normally hits me late May.

Have itchy eyes and very itchy throat and roof of mouth. Luckily Beconase is keeping the sneezing away.

[KaraK]

Mine's just started this year, so far it's just a slight itch in the eyes and bit of a catch in the throat.

[DarrenL]

Simbu said:

Planning a trip to the docs soon to get me script'd up on my yearly anti-hayfever drug of choice - Fexofenadine Hydrochloride. Doc put me on this stuff after everything else (and i've tried ALOT of other stuff over the years) just wasn't strong enough. By contrast this stuff is a lifesaver. No side affects either

+1

This stuff is amazing! it has saved my summer, every summer for the last 7 years!! Its also known as Telfast 120.

[2seas]

DarrenL said:

Simbu said:

Planning a trip to the docs soon to get me script'd up on my yearly anti-hayfever drug of choice - Fexofenadine Hydrochloride. Doc put me on this stuff after everything else (and i've tried ALOT of other stuff over the years) just wasn't strong enough. By contrast this stuff is a lifesaver. No side affects either

+1

This stuff is amazing! it has saved my summer, every summer for the last 7 years!! Its also known as Telfast 120.

hay fever is such a ball breaker. i get it really badly too. is the above drug freely available or does it require doc subscription?