Hayfever - anyone else strugging?

[EmeraldRoulette]

Today is bad! Streaming nose and eyes.

they stopped making Nasacort, which I found very good. Apparently there's nothing with the equivalent ingredient. Chemist gave me Pirinase, doesn't seem to be helping much.

might try the Superdrug service to get Avamys but not sure.

I know the pollen is high but also wonder if I might be starting a cold. How is everyone else doing? It's definitely worse in the afternoon.

I've had it the last week or so and it triggers my asthma. I had my annual asthma review end of Feb and told nurse it was all well under control now it's really bad and I know it's the pollen triggering it. I've doubled asthma meds and taking daily hayfever tablets.

I feel your pain my asthma review end of October. No use really

Update - I got some Nasacort! I was in a nearby village and the pharmacy had a last box. It made a difference within a day. So relieved. Still itchy eyes but hopefully that will go soon

nice to enjoy the weather without streaming eyes and nose.

the pharmacist told me something completely different. He said it's gone from sale for now while it gets relicenced as a product that's not even OTC but just sots on the shelf. I hope he's right. He said fenowotsit used to be OTC as well. Didn't know that.

how's everyone else managing? Maybe pollen is lower here now but I haven't had to check, which is nice.

The counts have been high here due to the good weather and high wind, I did start sneezing a bunch after I opened my bathroom windows after showering, but taking my usual ceterizine and a fexofenadine daily touchwood seems to be getting my symptoms under control and I can take more than one if needed and it doesn't seem to make me as loopy as I get if I take 3+ ceterizines (it was a very bad day when I tid that!), so that's a nice bonus about that medication.

I've been awful today. Felt really quite poorly and tired, just whacked out as well as the usual sore throat and inflamed nose. Coughing also.

I know it’s tree pollen season ATM. I’ve been sneezing loads, yesterday was particularly bad.

I’ve been ‘desensitised’ to grass pollen and it was partly successful- making the grass pollen season manageable. Densensitisation was y monthly courses of pollen pills under the tongue, 3 sets. If your symptoms are bad enough ask your GP to be referred. I suffered from 1985 until 8 years ago.

meanwhile I take Fexofenadine, Dymista nasal spray and eye drops to handle symptoms. I agree that taking antihistamines in advance of symptoms helps. As does not going out at sunrise and sunset, keeping hair off your face, wearing glasses when outdoors etc.

Sorry for everyone struggling, I'm a bit annoyed with it again today

yesterday I was fine even after a walk in the woods - it's a bus ride away, I mention that because it may be different types of tree pollen?

today, I had my 20 minute break sitting in the garden of my block. It's got some very low mini blossoming trees/plants.

anyway, thanks to Nasacort, no sneezing - but my eyes are back to itchy and streaming. The blossoms are the only thing that I think might have caused it.

now wondering about eye drops but historically I have found hayfever eye drops useless. Hopefully a few more days of Nasacort will fix the eyes too.

lots of walking this weekend with high tree pollen forecast but clearly some trees are fine and some aren't. It's a mystery to me!

So to minimise the pollen effect when walking wear large glasses or sunglasses and wash your hair when home.

I haven’t found a particularly effective eye drop since Rapitil which I don’t think is available any more. Eye drops have been the most effective part of my medications, along with cooling eye masks for when my eyes are particularly itchy.

@Baggyprincess thank you

I do wear sunglasses but I'd be washing my hair three times a day as I don't drive and do all my errands on foot.

some of you seem to be having a much harder time, I'm sorry for that

I'll be interested to see what the weekend walks are like. Definitely think particular things set me off. There was one workplace that was particularly bad and last year, we didn't have those mini blossoms in the garden.

but apparently this year is worse, it's not our imaginations!

news.sky.com/story/why-hay-fever-is-worse-this-year-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-13326241

Today was not helped by having a firedrill, which meant I left the building when near my sunglasses, and then had to spend time hanging around a blossom and catkin-lined car park.

I nearly started a thread myself. For me it’s the worst it’s been for a few years. Also setting my asthma off. I was up at 6am and immediately felt it as the bathroom window was open. Couldn’t take a tablet fast enough.

With a stinking cold and on antibiotics I've been in all day. Tonight popped to the co-op for pizza. So out in the car started the coughing whilst in there. The pollen sets off the asthma. Very embarrassing. Trying and failing to cough in a lady like manner.

I’m now on Fexafenadine, cheaper if you can get quantity on a prescription. I have a prescribed nasal spray, Budesonide. I forgot to take it recently and ended up with Sinusitis really bad, now on antibiotics, with a thrush treatment to go with it 🥴

Oh no

poor everyone

waiting for nice weather and then this!