Seasonal allergies, here we go again!

[clseale]

I'm sorry. I was having similar pollen issues last week. It was awful. I couldn't function because I was literally sneezing every two minutes ALL.DAMN.DAY. Every car in N FL is yellow. The one positive to the rain we are currently having is that it is helping with the pollen.

[spunkypenguin]

Have you considered Immunotherapy? After suffering for over half my life, I finally sucked it up and got tested at the allergist (I'm allergic to pretty much all things green) and started sub-lingual immunotherapy (I don't like shots!) It's supposed to be a 2-5yr process...we moved away from allergist around 2 years in and I never followed up, but it helped immensely! I know if I had stuck it out, I would be completely allergy free - they've definitely gotten better. Before, there wasn't any medication that would even touch my symptoms - now I can get by with some OTC claritin.

I definitely understand your misery!

[pamela]

Have you tried Flonase? It seriously changed my life. (moving to the swamp with no cedar may have helped too). I had totally adjusted to all the oral meds and they did nothing anymore.

[mainewifey]

I'm not looking forward to allergy season at all. The best part of winter is that I can breathe with out extra inhalers and meds.

Flonase also worked well for me. It gave me nosebleeds, so I stopped taking it, but my nose bleeds really. So I'm not sure that it would be a problem for most people.

[pamela]

Feb 27, 2014 9:45:32 GMT -5 @pennypie said:

Feb 27, 2014 7:04:00 GMT -5 pamela said:

Have you tried Flonase? It seriously changed my life. (moving to the swamp with no cedar may have helped too). I had totally adjusted to all the oral meds and they did nothing anymore.

I haven't. I think the Nasonex is my equivalent maybe? I feel like I remember the allergist talking about Flonase and maybe she didn't want to rx it to me because I had had a reaction to Zyrtec? Or maybe it was Allegra she didn't want me to take? I'm fuzzy on that. I just remember that I had tried Zyrtec for a bit, rather than Claritin, and I had a really weird reaction...it made me angry and confused in this weird spiral ("Why am I angry?" "I'm angry because I'm confused!"). Like shockingly and uncontrollably so...it was really dramatic.

Growing up in Central Florida, and living there until my mid-20s, I didn't have any seasonal allergies really. Even though they have oak trees and such, it's a different kind of oak that I guess I'm not as allergic too. And the grasses are really different there.

Flonase isn't equivalent to nasonex and it's not a antihistamine like allegra/zyrtec/claritin. Might be worth a try.

The first dr that prescribed it for me really didn't tell me how to use it and his dosage directions were vague. I actually just went to the doc-in-a-box clinic here for a sinus infection and asked for a flonase refill and the dr actually gave me some real usage instructions saying that a lot of people don't take it right and ends up leading to nosebleeds from over application (should be aiming more out to the side, not up).

[emuni04]

I hear you, sister! I never had a problem with allergies until I moved down South. They stink!

[mrsjthompson]

Ugh, and the crazy weather here isn't helping. Low of 30 tonight, high in the mid 70's by Saturday. I just sent DH to the doctor yesterday to get the steroid shots.

[sassystace]

Come on up to Ohio. No pollen here -- only ice and snow that I think will last forever!! Sorry, I have Spring envy about now.

Hope you find something that helps. I take Zyrtec myself and have heard good things about Flonase as well.

[BAMFMrsB]

right there with you, O.P.

Snot monster, checking in. I slept sitting up Sun/Mon/Tues nights. Mucinex-D seemed to really help stop the flood, but I had a wicked headache (prob from not following up with a metric ton of water) the entire time.