To want to reach into my head and scratch the shit out of my nose and throat

[ElleBellyBeeblebrox]

I know hay fever is a very minor health problem, but today has been CONSTANTLY itching,sneezing,streamy eyes and scratchy throat. Is today particularly bad or is hay fever plus PMT just an especially grumpy combination?!!

Another sufferer here, well over 50 & no lessening of symptoms whatsoever .

I've never met anyone else with the itchy upper palate thing, plus the attractive clicks & snorts... & the insides of my bloody ears itch! Aaaagh.
Nothing I've found stops it altogether, but at least beconase helps a bit.
& gargling with wire wool. (No, that last bit isn't true - yet)

Giggorata you have not met me obviously. Itchy upper palate made me to develop the scratching mechanism called The Frog. Because I sound like one when "scratching" the inside of my mouth. Never know I could avoid all discomfort by simlpy taking a pill or two a day.....

*knew

Absolutely feeling everyone's pain here...sometimes I get confused whether my tears are frustration or hayfever!

One thing I do know is that the 7-in-a-row sneezing pattern takes no prisoners from a pelvic floor perspective.

Does it make a difference trying to identify which grass etc is causing it? I don't understand what you could then fo about it, I'm planning on staying indoors (and crying in to soggy tissues)

Laughing at the Frog technique. Doesn't seem to be any better today despite the rain.
In my original post I wrote that it's a fairly minor problem, as I was half expecting people to tell me to stop whining and just take a tablet.
Oh hang on...

And the count is only medium. When it's high, I think we can safely assume we're fucked

DD has particularly bad hay fever at the moment and the poor thing is in the middle of A level exams

Elle, without wanting to seem smug, never give up hope. I almost stopped getting grass pollen allergy about 10 years ago, having suffered it for 25 years. This year I didn't get my 15 year old tree pollen allergy either. You can grow out of them.

Yesterday I did have a bit of a runny nose and itchy eyes, but then I'd spent all day in the country walking through fields of flowering grass without antihistamines. When I got hayfever proper, that would have killed me.

That's not smug Sabine, it's comforting!!

3amclub - check with your GP and on the kelly mom website. You can take most of the usual drugs when bf, most say unsuitable as there is a lack of evidence I with bf but other tests show little passes to the baby in milk. I guess it's about weighing up risks. After discussing with my GP I decided to continue taking medication when necessary

I'm really suffering. My nose has been completely blocked for 2 weeks and I've gone deaf in my right ear. I sneeze constantly. I have been dosing myself on all the over the counter tablets which exist and using a nasal spray to no effect.

I have an appointment with the GP tomorrow to beg her for something stronger. It's not fun having hayfever.

Oh and I am in Scotland - pollen count might be a bit lower than in parts of inland England, but it's still bad. The farmer who owns the field at the back of the house was cutting grass yesterday and I wanted to throttle him.

Another sufferer here. It's been bad for the past couple of weeks. On Sunday I put the DC to bed an hour early so I could get into my own bed and moan pitifully under a pillow. My nose, eyes, head and ears all hurt, my eyelids are blistering, my face itches like crazy and I keep waking up in the middle of the night having asthma attacks. I called my GP and told them what I was taking: loratadine tablets, Piriton syrup, Pirinase spray and eye drops and they said there's not much else they can do (how about a general anaesthetic and an antihistamine drip?) but she prescribed me some better eye drops and taught me a better nasal spray technique. I always thought that you sprayed and sniffed but apparently not: you spray close to the nostril opening and then just let it sit there, no sniffing and best done lying down. I was unimpressed but to be fair my nose is a lot better today.

The pharmacist also sold me some simple eye ointment for the blistering, which is at least helping to keep them moisturised.

3am I'm also a breastfeeding hayfever-sufferer. I checked with the breastfeeding drugs network and you can take most things (probably). They say the nasal sprays are the preferred option. I'm using Clarityn, a spray and eye drops (and only waking my poor baby up a few times a night now with the sneezing....)
I've had a touch of hayfever before but this year is shocking. I wondered if preg/bf had anything to do with it or is the pollen just very much increased this year...

DS was hospitalised last week as his hayfever caused him to have an asthma attack. I'm fuming reading this Bloody doctor keeps telling him to take loratadine even though we tell him that it knocks poor DS out. How can it they keep saying, it's non drowsy, no it's bloody not. I have an 11 year old zombie on my hands who despite sometimes taking a double dose (he's a fair size) still looks like he has been sprayed with tear gas!

I'm on to them in the morning to demand some serious medication for him. He complains of the itchy palate too, drives me bloody nuts snuffling about like a bloody bloodhound.

I really feel for all you guys. I just get itchy eyes and am bloody grumpy enough.

Hubby has been the incredible sneezing machine today.... Bloody hay fever

DH has been prescribed monteklucast tablets as his asthma was so bad and they have worked wonders. He still has some hay fever symptoms but nowhere near as bad as usual

Twinkie your poor DS that sounds miserable :( please get back to the gp and get stroppy with them, they surely know that not one size fits all

I wanted to try scratching my mouth/throat/palate with a fork today, click-snorting is NOT HELPING

Neilmed. I say it on every thread and everyone ignores me but I don't care, i am evangelical abut it

Dss has been really bad past couple of days. GP has refused to see him until we have tried every otc remedy (which seems a bit unreasonable given the cost!). And he's in the middle of his mock GCSEs.

Our new strategy is Beconaise nasal spray (he's under 18 so should be under GP recommendation, but as the GP won't see him....) plus Benadryl three times a day, eye drops and this waxy thing you put in your nostrils (I referred to this as a "woowoo cure", so he likes that!). He won't wear sunglasses nor change his clothes, when he gets in, nor shower.....

First indicators are that he's a bit better today.