Anyone else experiencing usual hay fever symptoms despite low pollen counts?

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I always get grass pollen hay fever around this time of year.

Started again last week but all the pollen counts are low (am in Yorkshire), car pollen filter is saying low for grass etc.

I have all the standard symptoms, feel like I'm going mad! Does anyone else have their usual hay fever this year?

My husband is, yes. In fact I’d say he’s had a few days recently where his symptoms have been worse than other years, despite the low count. It’s odd.

Low overall pollen count doesn't mean there's not a lot of some type around. It just depends which pollens you are actually allergic to.

It’s horrendous. But I think the strong winds and rain are causing it all to be released.

Yes but if you look at the pollen type ones they have said grass is low the last few days. I also have a filter in my car that gives reading by pollen type and grass has been low or medium.

Just feels strange as my symptoms are exactly the same as usual! Worried I've got another random allergy I guess and wondered if it was just me.

There's still plenty of tree pollen around OP, and I found as I got older I became more reactive to privet flowers, which is everywhere due to it being the favourite for garden hedging. Previous years people would trim it back in spring so no flowers but now we are more aware of nesting birds etc so trimming gets delayed and it flowers. I never realised how much the bees love it either, the hedges actually hum!. Sorry for waffling but could it be something like that?

Maybe and thanks for the thoughts...

Reason I've found it odd this year is that my symptoms always track the grass pollen season (ie June), are worse after walking in fields etc. Exactly the same this year but all local grass pollen stuff says low.

My hay fever has been exceptionally awful today - am in SE and it's sunny, after a cool free days. Have doubled up on daily tablet (have been taking a daily table since about March) and nothing is helping!

Yes! DH is really suffering and having been hay-fever free last year, it's also back for me. My eyes are really irritated and that's not a symptom I usually suffer from.

Yes! Wednesday and Thursday were awful this week I couldn’t wear my contact lenses!

Yes, it just seems to be my eyes though. Normally I sneeze, get itchy nose, mouth and throat but this time it's just really itchy eyes that get itchier the minute I start scratching then they're red and watery for ages after.

My dh and dd are really bad the last few days. It's so unfair , my sympathies are with you all. I'm a lucky one who has never experienced the misery.

Oddly, last year I had such bad hay fever that I needed 6 weeks worth of steroid drops from my optician. This year, nothing at all so far.

im sorry you’re having such a rough time with this.

I started to suffer from hayfever after the pandemic, so I'm still getting my head around it. For the past two years I've suffered from May onwards, but this year I have been fine until last week. I appreciated the reprieve.
My eyes are so sore and irritated now.
I have a job that is relentless with very little humour and everything is Very Serious so I've no idea how I'm going to function next week if I can't see much on a screen. Keep applying eye drops but they only bring fleeting relief. I have half an hour here and there where I can sit and do stuff.

Yes me. My end-of-May start-of-June headache has returned. It’s not how most people describe their hayfever symptoms so it usually catches me out until I remember that it is end of May/start of June again.

I’ve been bad all week but today has been another level.
I’ve taken a loratadine this morning that didn’t work so a fexofenadine this afternoon, and now a chlorphenamine. Not advised but I’m sooooo poorly with it today.
My nose is so red and sore. My eyes are itchy and the corners are sore from the watering. I feel wheezy and my throat is itchy.
This is awful.

There's a lot of elderflower in bloom around here, and it stinks. If I stand by it I can feel it triggering my asthma as well as my hayfever symptoms.

Same here. Lots of leaf blowers about at the moment. Just leave it be!