Allergy suffers, please unite....

[carone0318]

UURRGGHH!

My allergies are full force right now. I'm in NJ and that spring time bloom is out and it just set me off about 2 days ago.

I am on Allegra, Flonase and eye drops! My co-worker just asked me over the cube wall if I was sick or allergies - I sit here sneezing, blowing my chapped nose and my eyes are all blood shot as if I was on some sort of drug.

I am now just waiting to see if I lose my voice again like I did last year from all of the post-nasal drip! (can we say eewwhh )

I sound and look worse than I feel.... I know I can't be alone out there - who's with me, please sympathize and tell me how you are suffering too.....

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I got shots for 4+ years so I am not as bad as you anymore. I just get headaches and a little swollen (my face) these days.

Before shots I could not even get out of bed some days. My eyes would be swollen shut.

Yesterday was a "bad day". My face was swollen and I had a headache all day. I also felt terrible.
Here is the kicker...I don't have any nasal drip at all. No sneezing, blowing my nose, no bloodshot eyes, nothing. You would never know I was suffering from allergies.

 

[golfgal]

I am fairly new to the allergy scene, just the past year or two, but this spring is awful so far and nothing is blooming here yet! I have had constant post-nasal drip for about 2 weeks now. I really need to get into an allergist and get on something besides Claritin because it isn't working any more.

 

[Kae]

Are you taking Allegra or Allegra-D? If you are taking regular Allegra you might need the D or see if you can add some Sudafed(which is the D) This will help dry you up & clear you out. I also put cool wash cloths on my eyes, nothing is worst than itchy eyes. And if I am really bad sometimes I will gstop taking Prescibed meds & take benadril, but I can not function very well on Beneadril.

Kae

 

[cybrkitn]

Mine are just starting. I may soon lose my voice to a point since my post nasal started to bother me yesterday. I have to remember to put my prescription nasal spray in my pocketbook cuz I'm gonna need it.

So far the allergens are not bad by my house, but when I took my son to daycare this morning I could smell it very heavily in the air. The tree pollen might be starting to come out and the daycare has a lot of trees in their neighborhood. I think that may have been what started my post nasal drip.

DS4 is on vacation from school this week. He's in daycare until next Tuesday then goes back to school.

 

[carone0318]

I, too, am new to the allergy scene. I have developed allergies about 2 yrs ago. They say if you live in NJ at some point in your life you will have allergies, well I was blessed enough not to have them as a child, but can I tell you how much they stink!

I am on Allegra D. At least the Allegra does help with the headaches, they are not as bad. Until my dr. told me I had allergies last yr, I thought that I had a brain tumor or something because I had headaches multiple times a week.

The spring bloom is really bad for me, but I have found out that I do have other allergies to - my worst is dust mites and grass. Allegra seems to take care of that stuff the other times of the yr, but these upcoming few weeks are the worst!

 

[nursetish]

It's been bad here in Louisiana too. I've suffered all my life and unfortunately my five year old inherited them. We've been poping claritin for the last month. Hopefully these rains we've had the last week, will have knocked the tree pollen down some and we'll get a LITTLE break

 

[Lanshark]

An extremely high pollen count is anything over 120.

Atlanta's pollen count last week was over 5000.

It's the most beautiful city there is in the spring if your eyes can stop watering enough to actually see it

 

[liamsaunt]

DH and I both suffer from allergies, but different ones. Mine are to mold and dust. We ended up having to redo the entire house--rip out all the carpet and replace with wood, threw out all the curtains and replaced with shutters, got rid of the upholstered furniture and replaced with leather, flushed the ductwork, whole house interior completely repainted...it was a pain but this is the first year I havent come down with pneumonia or bronchitis, so I guess it was worth it.

DH has the living things allergies: grass, birch, oak, and a couple of other things. He was going for treatments some years ago but then his allergist got convicted of murdering his wife . The next doctor worked out a whole laundry list of stuff for him to take--he has to do it year round--saline spray, followed by flonase. Two sudafed (not the PE, it doesn't work), plus one loratidine. At the worst times he has to take a benadryl (I think that replaces the sudafed), but benadryl makes him groggy.

Allergies stink, don't they?

Edited to add the one upside to our allergies: I get to have someone come in to clean, and DH gets to have a lawn service mow the "lawn"!!

 

[jimmiej]

Ever since we moved to the Texas Hill Country, I've suffered with year-round allergies. I take Rescon & use Nasonex. I'd like to take shots, but my insurance doesn't cover it.

 

[Pop Daddy]

Im a late Aug-Sept ragweed kind of guy

 

[Planogirl]

I have them bad this morning. I have to go to work in a little bit and haven't put my contacts in yet. Ouch, I know they will hurt.

 

[KikiFan]

Has anyone tried Astelin nasal spray? Our Dr just switched us to it and all I can say is WOW! It works. I've used flonase and nasonex and neither one of those really cut it for me. But the Astelin really does it. Between that and the (generic) claritin, so far I'm really not having major probs especially considering how bad the pollen is.

 

[luvwinnie]

Zyrtec works well for me...and I had to FIGHT new insurance co. to get it. I need it EVERY day all year.

 

[carone0318]

Has anyone tried Astelin nasal spray? Our Dr just switched us to it and all I can say is WOW! It works. I've used flonase and nasonex and neither one of those really cut it for me. But the Astelin really does it. Between that and the (generic) claritin, so far I'm really not having major probs especially considering how bad the pollen is.

I should ask about it because I use the Flonase sparingly because it makes my nose very sensitive and raw.

 

[grlpwrd]

I am the only one in my family to have itchy, watery eyes, sneezing incessantly, and coughing.

I am taking Tylenol Allergy, but it's not doing much for me. (I just don't want to take anything stronger so I just sit and suffer. lol)

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Mine haven't started yet, but I'm dreading it. I only get it in my eyes - they get extremely itchy and my dark circles underneath become much more prominent. Claritin-D is the only thing that settles the burning and itching.

Call me weird, but there are two things I like about having allergies. One, my eyes turn a very pretty, bright shade of green, and two, I end up with Angelina Jolie lips. Why can't that happen during non-allergy season?