to wish the fucking pollen would fuck the fuck off away from me

[giraffesCantBoogie]

Not sure if I am allowed to take anymore drugs?!

How are you all coping?

DS is really struggling, I am going to phone his asthma consultant tomorrow to see if he can take anything else (already has daily antihistamine and a nasal spray) as he is currently needing even more ventolin than normal just to get through the day

It's the bastard rapeseed here. Stinking bastard stuff.

Same Sirzy - let me know if he comes up with anything!

What antih is he on?

3rd inhaler, course of antibiotics coz the cough went nasty, weak antihistamines as I have an exam coming and need to function. Coughing interrupted sleep for 3 months now curse you lovely Spring

Costing a fortune in prescribed, and OTC drugs and tena lady

I'd say but you'd probably bash me over the head with them

YANBU

But it is the pollution as well - diesel cars are a particular problem. Remember the London smog which they blamed on Sahara dust? The smog is still there from the diesel crap we just cannot see it.

NO FLOWERS

I haven't got to the buying tena stage yet but I am using a normal pad...! It is that utterly violent cough that catches you off guard!

elfy what are you on?

@Sirzy: Have you tried allergy shots for him? They worked pretty well for me. Allergies used to knock me out from school to the point I had to be home schooled for a bit or I would have fallen behind. Now I hardly notice spring season.

Desloratadine and nasacort spray.

Thanks Princess I will talk to his consultant and see if its a possibility. With him only being 4 options are limited (although you wouldn't think so by the rainbow of different inhalers we have tried for his asthma!)

I'm on fostair inhaler (steroid and broncodilator combi), steroid nasal spray and Loratadine. I need to make another appointment. I haven't got a diagnosis yet as normally I only have a hoarse voice with my springtime issue. 4 years ago I had a bad 'cold with cough' and this year I can't even walk half a mile slowly without coughing.

Catching me off guard... oh yes, and apparently I go a bit blue around my lips and had a few episodes of mini-blackouts.

But apparently I can still see the practice nurse practitioner and not a doctor, and no getting a diagnosis/ testing until after it settles as I'm not ill enough I need to get a letter from them so the OU will let me have a home invigilator. I don't want to disturb the other exam takers with my coughing and retching and the OU agree - my tutor suggested it after seeing me nearly pass out. Only blood out of stone described the nurse's reaction to this.

On the bright side the raspberry pink inhaler matched my handbag.

That is uttery mad - you need to see a Dr and be reffered for spiro tests etc. Ask them "what if this is not asthma? and you are leaving me like this with only a nurse prescribing for asthma!"

Have just started back on fexofenadine yesterday.

I'm not even asthmatic but was suffering today after taking DD to the park, there are fields of rapeseed in flower near that park so think we will be avoiding it for a while.

it is really tough, i am in a house full of hayfever sufferers.
this is what we do
kids: Vit C tablets, Sambucol with VitC and zinc, reduce bread and sugar as much as possible. cotton wool pads soaked in cooled boiled water with euphrasia drops (homeopathic).
dh: Vit C, zinc, no red wine or beer. no bread. healthy as poss.
it really does seem to make a difference. the vit C will boost your immune system to cope, reducing alcohol, wheat, sugar all helps your body be strong and takes the load off.
only take anti histamine if you really can't get through the day. they just suppress your immune system. DD1 was really ill with a virus last winter, caused by months of anti histamines suppressing her immune system to nothing. hence the boost the body approach we're on at the moment which is working (fingers crossed, touch wood etc...) not eliminating hayfever completely but not as debilitating as in the past.

Sympathy to all struggling.

I'm not enjoying it and have really sore eyes, but I know how bad it can be for other people. There was a woman on the bus today and I thought she was crying until someone asked her if she was ok and she said she just can't cope with the tree pollen.

DS is 4.7 and on two antihistamines. His hayfever really makes his eyes swell and he will not have eyedrops. Loratadine in the morning and Citerezine (sp) at night.

DH is on Loratadine for the Rapeseed pollen, and he has a Dr appt for a persistent cough that i think is related.

I'm on Loratadine March - September. Fun.

The girls thankfully are fine!

cotton wool pads for sore, swollen, itchy eyes incase you hadn't worked that out...

I want to move to central London at times just to get some relief!

Today is really bad here too, I've felt more hay-fevery than I have for a couple of years. It must be the weather as I live in a fairly suburban area and we've no oilseed rape or anything.

I normally take citirizine but it barely took the edge off it this morning :(

A friend of mine did a course of about three years worth of injections of some description... She used to be a streaming mess from about March to October every year but now much better. I'm lucky, claritin works ffor me.

YANBU
It's rape seed year here to. It's evil, at least it means waving wheat next year.

I highly doubt homeopathic stuff would help me Tess! Am just about managing to stay out of hosp using a cocktail of prescription meds.

Nasal spray really helps itchy eyes, also sodium chromoglycate eye drops. And zirtek throughout pollen season.

I am allergic to tree pollen and my house is surrounds by more trees than you can imagine...

Me!! I ran out of fexofenadine yesterday so suffered really badly today . Just call me snotmonster. I am on 18mg of fexo all year due to various allergies and urticaria.

I'm asthmatic too and had to up my budesonide to 800mg twice a day. sigh. I still wheeze frequently.

Bloody pollen