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

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

How are you all coping?

ffs 180mg fexofenadine even. Was on nasel sprays too but they all just make me lose my voice. Hence i'm on a dry powder inhaler for my asthma.

Damn and buggeration.

Have run out of nose spray.

I stopped getting hayfever when I stopped eating cows' dairy products.

I am suffering and can't take my beloved benadryl because I am pregnant. God help me this summer!

I was on cetirizine for 9 years. Switched to fexofenadine. No good, think I was becoming resistant. I also take all year round due to other allergies / urticaria (hives)

Today I have started on a brand new antihistamine called rupatadine.

I suffered really badly for years - from the age of 4 till late 30s. Miserable.

5 years ago I was trying acupuncture for something else (to support IVF for secondary infertility - DD is asleep in the next room - yay!) and I went in one day with my face a swollen mess. The acupuncturist treated it too whilst I was there - and it helped a bit with the immediate symptoms. She said that if I came back the following year, about a month before I usually got symptoms, and have about a month of weekly treatments, it would minimise it, and that then if I did the same the following year, I wouldn't suffer at all and that the following year after that, I wouldn't need treatment and wouldn't get it. I was sceptical but gave it ago.

The first 2 years i got very mild symptoms but nothing that made me want to rip my eyes out or tear my head off. The 3rd year - I only realised that I hadn't had any symptoms when it suddenly got to late June and then the penny dropped that I should have had it by that point. Now I get the odd tickily, sniffy sensation but it never escalates to full blown hay fever. I haven't had any tablets or nasal spray for about 2 years.

Fan-bloody-tastic. How I wish I'd done it years ago (god when I think back to how awful exam season always was - ugh).

Sizay DS it's 3 and struggling at the moment we have found a hepa filter in his room overnight helps. He then at least gets a good night's sleep. He's asthmatic, suspect possible hayfever hasn't been confirmed yet.

I'm a little concerned as I don't have anything else I can give him at the moment he's ooh maximum evening he can have. and being so little we are limited on what he can have.