Does anyone else have experience of allergies suddenly worsening in an adult?

[OrmIrian]

I have had terrible athsma this summer. Using my blue inhaler 5 or 6 times a day when I normally use it perhaps once or twice a week. I put it down to hayfever (as did the athsma nurse when I went to see her last month) initially but it's still really bad when surely the pollen count should be falling by now. I've got a cat allergy which has also got much worse this year too (we've always had a cat and I've usually been OK with her).

I believe I've just developed allergy related asthma, I think its my dog I am allergic to. Every evening I am wheezing and I cant sleep due to it. I had asthma as a child but grew out of it and have other mild allergies but nothing like this. I was told you can develop an allergy at any time so maybe you have become allergic to your cat or something else?

I have had worse allergies this spring/summer for sure. I virtually always have a stuffy nose right now. I had a phase back in June where I had to use my blue inhaler for asthma every day - that is pretty unusual for me when I use it usually 4-6 time a year only as my asthma is thankfully very mild.
I have no idea why things suddenly got so bad. I changed my approach to allergy meds and started to take piriton at least once a day, twice if the symptoms were getting to me, and I bought flixonase to try and it for me was waaaaay better then beconase. The asthma thankfully settled itself after a couple of weeks and my nose is definately better if I take piriton daily or more often. I just hate the sleepiness that comes with it so once things get a bit better I try and go back to using it only when I need it. I have pet allergies, but I am sure there is more to it too. Aerosols set me off all the time, and dusty areas too so maybe dust mites I guess.

I don't know what to suggest to you really to help other than making sure you use meds for a while very regularly even if things are not to bad, just so you can get through a hard patch and let your body take a step back from being so reactive all the time.

Hope others can offer some useful advice for you,

My dad had childhood hayfever that developed into asthma as an adult. looks as if ds is going the same way too .
Sorry, no idea why it happens, probably the former triggering the latter I would think.

i only developed allergies just after having my twins, i am anaphylactic to animals kiwi and latex.

This summer seems to have been particularly bad for asthma. Over the past few years I've hardly used my blue inhaler more than once every few months. This year I seem to be wheezing at least every other day.

My sister's allergies have worsened as an adult to the extent where, today, in fact, she's been to a consultant in Southampton (they have an allergy specialism there) and has discovered that she is severely allergic to birch pollen and grass pollen. The birch pollen thing has consequenses of potentially being allergic to many other things including nectarines and lots of other soft fruits, raw root veg and many other things - and she is to most of them.

I'm not sure what the allergy clinic is called, but might be worth googling Southampton and allergy!

I was never allergic to anything. Then after 2 years of midwives and health visitors saying that my sneezing, painful sinuses and constant sinus headaches, wheezing and nose constantly dripping with watery stuff - was :
pg1 'normal preggy runny nose' between babies 'you're run down and keep getting colds' pg 2 'normal preggy runny nose' and for 8 months after 'you're run down from 2 kids close together and bf both, you keep getting colds'.

After all this time of basically no sleep due to the painful and blocked sinuses, and embarrasment of all the water coming out of my nose, I went to my gp in despair. Turns out during first pg I developed an allergy to the cat I've had 16 years. The cat has been rehomed, and I'm told all it would have taken was a beconase spray that you can take when you are pg. AAARGHGGH bloody midwives and health visitors!!!
So in answer to op, not an existing allergy getting worse but a totally new allergy appearing!

my allergies got much worse when I was pregnant and have eased off again. I don't think they are a static thing at all.

DH, who had had eczema as a child, had a terrible outbreak of eczema just after we had DS1. I'm sure it was linked with the birth (DS1 nearly died, we were both very shocked).