Why has my hayfever gone?!

[CIMA]

Last year I was taking 2 antihistamines a day, and I remember one lockdown walk my eyes and nose were streaming so badly I had to go home as I'd forgotten my tissues. This year I've been fine apart from the odd sneeze, no antihistamines. I've seen people complaining how high the pollen is this year too. Can it just go?!

[standupsitdownturnaround]

I think wearing a mask helps. I've got a friend who has started wearing a mask when gardening and they said it's life changing

[MrsPelligrinoPetrichor]

I've been fine this year too up until the last couple of days!

[EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall]

Mine only started about 4 years ago too. Don't think it's mask wearing for me , I only wear it in the shop and the 5 min school drop off/pick up.

I actually haven't had a problem with it since I had my 2nd jab but hadnt thiught about that.

[MirandaMarple]

A friend swears he cured his hayfever by getting sloshed on Merrydown cider. That was about 1990. He's never suffered since.

[Bananarice]

Pregnancy and few months afterwards is the best time for avoiding hay-fever.

Shame our family is now complete, because this year it feels like it came back with vengeance.

[CovoidOfAllHumanity]

This seems very unfair
Mine is terrible this year just like every year
I've had it every year since I was a kid and it ruins my summer every time
It can be just about bearable with double dose antihistamines and steroid nasal spray but I would pay a lot of money if anyone had a permanent cure.

[Clawdy]

I have a friend who insists it's the vaccine that has stopped her hay fever this year.

[MarmaladeToastAndAMarmaladeCat]

I suffered very severely with hayfever from the age of 14-22. It completely disappeared the next year when I met my husband and he got hayfever when he’d never had it before. 10 years on he still has it and blames me for giving it to him

[Nachteule]

I’m wondering if hormonal changes has anything to do with it? For years I had asthma and a constant chesty cough then one year it just went and hasn’t returned. Looking back it was a problem before menopause. Since I’ve been properly menopausal not a cough or a wheeze and my inhalers are in the first aid box unused.

[Ohsugarhoneyicetea]

Mine is usually horrific, prescription medication barely controls it, but this year hardly anything. I've had long covid and the vaccine and I wonder if its related. My immune system is so wrung out it this year it doesnt have space for pesky old hayfever anymore!