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AIBU?

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To wish hayfever was just sneezing?

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LittleMissGerardButlerfan · 03/07/2013 18:45

Some people I know think hayfever is just sneezing and are genuinely shocked when I say it's so much more!

I get sneezing, itchy eyes, sore throat, sinus headache, nausea from the drip of snot at the back of my throat, drowsiness and just generally feeling blah!

Antihistamines aren't even helping much this time. :(

It's a lot more crippling than people realize! evil pollen grrr

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Lj8893 · 03/07/2013 18:49

Omg yanbu!!!

I have always suffered from hayfever but have also managed to control it with basic antihistamines.

But now I'm pregnant and I can't take anything, I have for the first time ever felt the full extent of hayfever and actually want to curl in a little ball and cry, its awful!!!!

Sharptic · 03/07/2013 18:54

I agree, I feel like a whinge if I mention it but it does effect my energy levels quite a lot.

I feel as though my body is tired from fighting off the polle and broken sleep. My eyes, nose, throat, ears and skin itch. I've been so bunged up I've struggled to swallow. My dermatitis has flared up again too.

When I was pregnant and couldn't take tablets I struggled to breathe at night and my chest felt bruised from trying. I'm timed my next pregnancy to avoid hayfever season, and it worked!

Ahhh feels good too get that off my chest, I can't moan like that in everyday life!

KansasCityOctopus · 03/07/2013 19:52

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carlywurly · 03/07/2013 20:12

Yabu, it's totally debilitating. Going on hols soon and I'm praying they have different pollen there that I'm not allergic too - it's been weeks of feeling foggy headed

carlywurly · 03/07/2013 20:13

I meant yanbu but my iPad autocorrected..

freddiefrog · 03/07/2013 20:15

YANBU!

It's been awful this year. I don't normally suffer from it.

The tickly cough is the worst thing

ifyourehoppyandyouknowit · 03/07/2013 20:18

It's the constant congestion for me. Like having the worst cold go on for weeks and weeks.
I don't really do 'woo' but I bought one of this nose probes that uses light therapy to make your symptoms go away. Not sure if it's working but I am desperate.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 03/07/2013 20:19

Its the itchy eyes I can't deal with. Sometimes I feel like sandpapering my eyeballs.

5madthings · 03/07/2013 20:21

Yanbu its awful and i feel like i want to use sandpaper on the roof of my mouth and inside my sinuses.

As an asids pregnant peeps you can take antihistemines when preg, loads of threads about it. I took them through all five pregnancies, would have died otherwise. Consultants okayed it.

FatimaLovesBread · 03/07/2013 20:24

Oh god it's awful! I'm making an appointment tomorrow to get some strong stuff for it.
Sometimes I feel like I want to itch my face off and then turn my head and ears inside out to itch them.

I wake up in the morning with a thick head, wheezy chest from snotty and pollen, achey sinus and general lethargy.

I remember listing my symptoms to a doctor and he was insistent that they wouldn't be from hayfever. Apparently it doesn't make you cough or wheeze or feel shit. It just makes you sneeze and your eyes itch. Twat

DameFanny · 03/07/2013 20:26

I've had earache for three days and can only assume it's from the constant bloody hayfever. Gah.

DMCWelshCakes · 03/07/2013 20:37

YANBU. I feel like I've been kicked repeatedly in the head. And if I could get my hand far enough down my throat to scratch the itch I would do.

And today I realised I've hit the spontaneous nosebleed section of the hayfever season when my nose is so raw it gives up completely. Still I should be glad I've managed to stay out of hospital with it this year.

Anyone who thinks hayfever is just a bit of sneezing deserves a sound pummeling. With a battering ram. (And even then they'd probably feel better than I do right now.)

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LittleMissGerardButlerfan · 03/07/2013 20:45

Ooh and how could I forgot the very attractive swollen eyes!

And sleepless nights from sneezing and being too warm as I can't open the windows!

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KobayashiMaru · 03/07/2013 20:47

Ha! Sneezing would be a walk in the fucking park! Coughs, lost voice, eyes swollen near shut yet still pouring with water, and an almost total inability to breathe is more like it.

FatimaLovesBread · 03/07/2013 20:52

Oh god the swollen eyes, it makes me boak when you get the bubble of fluid form in your eye lining that bubbles out between your eyelid.

The inside of my nostrils are permanent scans at the moment, I wake up in the night picking them and itching my nose.

Loratadine and cetirizine do feck all buy I'm breastfeeding so don't think I can take much more

trackies · 03/07/2013 21:28

OMG i feel so ill this year. Is the worst it's ever been. Antihistamines not really helping that much. Still really bunged up, feel knackered, wheezing, scratching, itchy/swollen eyes. DS squeezed my nose for a laugh and it really flipping hurt and started off lots of sneezing !

Ubermumsy · 03/07/2013 21:32

I'm glad I'm not the only one! This year has been horrendous. And after two kids and a failure to do my Kegels the sneezing has just now utterly buggered my pelvic floor. Am resorting to cutting up DD's nappies, pending a trip to somewhere that sells Tena Lady

Sidge · 03/07/2013 21:38

It's been really bad this last month or so for some reason - my respiratory clinic is full of people suffering.

You don't have to suffer - you need to attack the symptoms with different products as one single product is unlikely to help. Get a tablet antihistamine as well as eye drops and a nasal spray. You may even need a salbutamol (ventolin) inhaler.

ifyourehoppyandyouknowit · 03/07/2013 21:39

About 5 year ago I think, I ended up in A&E because I hadn't slept in about a week because of the itching, coughing, sneezing and congestion. I was so tired I was delirious and was struggling to breathe properly because of it all. I just melted down and DH packed me up in the car at three in the morning and took me to the hospital. They gave me drops for my nose. Worked like a charm but made my throat so so so sore.

I feel like I send most of summer wanting to rip my face off.

KansasCityOctopus · 03/07/2013 21:42

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ifyourehoppyandyouknowit · 03/07/2013 21:46

It's because of the shit weather - the pollen from trees, grass and flowers is normally staggered through the summer, and this year because of the late, wet summer, it's all happening at once.

TheSecondComing · 03/07/2013 21:46

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5madthings · 03/07/2013 21:47

My gp has prescribed me two different antihistemines and a nasal spray and recommended eye drops.

KirjavaTheCat · 03/07/2013 21:49

YANBUx1000.

It's so SHIT this year. Last year was a breeze (a largely pollen-free one).

The pressure in my face today has been unbearable, coupled with the general tiredness of pregnancy plus the fact I can't take any antihistamines at all and that I pee a little bit with my forceful sneezes and that my fucking asthma goes into overdrive at the mere presence of a molecule of the shitty stuff that grows in fields over the way.

Lilymaid · 03/07/2013 21:50

YANBU it is so debilitating and of course is usually at its worst during the exam season.

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