Is hayfever really that bad?

Mine is hell. Sinus infections, eyes sore headache runny nose. I'm on the highest dose AH which help. I use the beco cleanse plus nasal wash which is great.

I've also bought a big fuck off air purifier which is making a big difference.

Agree with all of this!

Hay fever is bad no matter where you are. Op, you complain when he's at home. Then you complain when he's out.

Nighttime in my room with the windows shut is horrid. Cannot breathe properly and wake up with my nose crusted and the skin cracking.

Yup agree, sometimes a whole day of real suffering and sometimes several weeks

YABU. It’s fucking horrific. I get it all year round but so bad in summer it absolutely knocks me off my feet, and there’s no antihistamine invented that touches it. Sometimes I feel like I can’t breathe. And I’m so fucking SICK of sneezing.

It can be awful, not always. I remember one year being really ill, most years it is horrible but never as bad as that time.

I'm surprised he wants to go and play golf out in the open though I suppose he isn't near too many trees. It probably takes his mind off it for a while.

Yes it is really that bad!

I want to sandpaper my eyes,then take them out and put them in a bowl of ice,they're constantly burning and itching,I have a thumping headache and can't stop sniffing.
I missed a staff meeting today as I'm so shattered with it all.I'm hoping I'll be ok to go to work on Saturday.I'd rather have flu and give birth with no painkillers than suffer with hayfever.
Roll on October,I get back to some sort of normal then.

My DS keeps getting sent home from school as it's so bad, so yeah for some people it is.

It’s horrific. Makes me want to claw my eyes out and punch myself in the nose. I get wheezy and get sinus headaches/infections because if it too. And it makes no difference if I leave the house or not, in hay fever season it finds me no matter what.

This 👆

Hayfever interferes with my whole life. I have to take a high dose anti histamine, rotating every so often as I get immune. I wake up some nights with my nose streaming so much, I'll use a whole toilet roll blowing it. I often have to shower several times a day to wash pollen off, and can't go out quite a few days in the summer because of it. Golf would not be an option for me. I don't get it anywhere near as badly as I used to. Worst was when my eyes swelled up so much I couldn't see.

So, per the above, it's fucking awful.

This is a fair question.

OP, have some sympathy. I used to have severe hayfever, and I can honestly say it impacted my quality of life. (Strangely, my allergies cleared up in lockdown and have never really returned.)

Horrific, had to leave work. Can't sleep. Headaches, flushing, aching and it's relentless.

Give me a hangover anyway as that goes away.

It can be horrendous yes. I'd much rather have a cold - you blow your nose and the snot is gone for a while. With hayfever it's a constant drip, drip, so you sniff and blow and sniff and blow and your nose gets more and more sore. I can get through half a box of tissues in a day. You have to sleep a weird position to try and make the dripping nose stop so you can sleep.

Sore eyes, sore throat...

All leading to a headache.

And it puts me in such a bad mood! I normally do 90% of the cooking, but if (as usually happens) no one else offers I make someone do it so I'm not dripping/blowing my nose constantly while stirring pans, and getting even more mad.

Not to mention that when everyone else is sitting on the grass in the sun enjoying a picnic, if you join them the whole setup just makes the hayfever worse.

Luckily mine has improved greatly over the years.

Get him to start taking Fexofenadine. I have it prescribed all year round as I'm terrible all year, all sorts of grass, pollen, flowers etc. I swell up and have hives covering my body. It truly is horrific when it's bad. You can now buy them over the counter, they've changed my life.

Have you ever complained to your DH about period pain or maybe childbirth? Did he give you any sympathy?
if he didn’t then don’t worry about not giving him any over his hay fever….
If he has, then think on

Sorry for highjacking posters original question but do any of you who had hayfever which has disappeared over time think changing hormones helped with that? I've had hayfever every June/July since I was pregnant (nothing prior), it is absolutely horrendous but I am noticing it is better so far this year. No sure if that's just happening with age or a knock on of the kenalog injection last year (which definitely took the edge off symptoms at the time).

Yes! It ruins your life, mine was so bad that tablets didn’t work so I’ve had the steroid hayfever injection instead and my life has completely turned about, best 40.00 ever spent!

Honestly if your life is destroyed by it, google your local clinic and get booked in, it’s lasts 12-18 weeks ( maybe longer depending on your body type /allergy etc) but please just get it if you have spare money! Works out cheaper than antihistamines for me as I was taking 5 a day just to survive it

I take a tablet first thing in the morning and it's fine

I'm not a regular hayfever sufferer, but I did get it during my pregnancies (especially with my DD3, who was a July baby). I remember it well and she is now almost 21. Pregnancy seemed to render me more sensitive to pollen and the GP did tell me that some women do sometimes get hayfever even if they don't otherwise normally have it.

It was very unpleasant. I was most uncomfortable, struggling to breathe properly and felt like I had been steamrollered.

It largely subsided once I was no longer pregnant, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

My DH gets it and keeps a packet of antihistamines so that he can take one if needed. You do have to be a little bit wary though as they can cause drowsiness if you aren't used to them.

YABU. Hayfever can be fucking awful.

Mine is awful. I take fexofenadine, but on prescription as the dose is stronger.
last year I was on holiday and decided to miss a day‘s tablet. By the end of the day, the itching was terrible, the left side of my face was in pain and my left eye had closed up.

Hayfever is absolutely miserable. I think you're heartless to have no sympathy.

It’s truly horrible and is debilitating. I would think it’s really difficult to imagine unless you’ve had it but trust me, it’s miserable. It completely ruins summer for me (along with wasps). And to add insult to injury, about 15 years ago my body decided that just hayfever would no longer be enough and developed an allergy to leaf mould too, so my hayfever just starts to clear up, I feel ok for a week or two and then I’m down with the same symptoms for the whole of autumn as well.

It might just seem like a cold but it’s completely different and literally so energy draining. I always feel knackard when my hayfever is really bad. I feel dizzy and lightheaded, it’s awful.

The children in my reception class counted my sneezes today for fun, but they had to stop as we have only learned up to 50 so far. And I washed my face and arms in the sink after every play time. One little boy finally brought me a wet paper towel to rub my eyes! It is TERRIBLE.😫