HAYFEVER to ask how yours is?

[PoohBearsHole]

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How is your hayfever treating you at the moment? Is it worse than before?

I ask as i've had such bad reactions i've been blue lighted to hospital and have EpiPens littered around house/work/car etc. It has literally NEVER been like this 😔.

I've had chest x-rays, given preventer and reliever inhalers and gas blood tests to determine exact allergy (to be fair my Dr rocks with his efficiency in checking what it is 🙂). Haven't had the results yet so could well be something more sinister (god i hope not as it's happened v quickly so if it is can't imagine it's good but i'm putting that to one side!)

I just want to hear i'm not alone with the hayfever, until about two weeks ago i hadn't even suffered from itchy eyes of had any sneezing (usual from May-July).

BTW still no sneezing, feel congested, short of breath, chest pains, threat tightening, lightheaded and slightly nauseous and occasional facial rash. Eyes are sticky in the morning but otherwise usual symptoms have disappeared!

If you want to tell me how you haven't suffered this year - go ahead 😁 but if you know of anyone who has had severe reactions this year i'd appreciate hearing 🙂

Awful. It started about March for me. Sitting here itching all over. My face is on fire and I feel like I have little critters crawling all over it.

The treatment I have had this year and last year for MS has cured my hayfever! it won't cure the MS though!

@toddler glad your hayfever is gone, one day for MS is a big hope of mine!

Sorry to hear there are others with breathlessness but am hoping it's not something I've done to myself from years of social smoking

Mine has been the worst ever - totally different symptoms to usual, including causing sinus issues and dizzyness/vertigo. I would kill for the usual itchy eyes, it would be easy compared to the room spinning feeling when I get into bed.

Mine is absolutely hiddeous at the moment. I feel dreadful.

Mine's the worst it's ever been too. I'm on daily piriteze, nurofen, Vicks sinex micromist (amazing stuff) and ventolin. Roll on October!

Vertigo - that's what the light headed feeling is - a bit like you're going to fall over or pass out? Combined with breathlessness, add in a huge amount of acid reflux/ really bad indigestion that I was being investigated for ( I had cut wheat and gluten out which was making life far easier BUT I have had to "cut" some fresh fruits and veg that were causing my mouth to itch and suddenly I found adding gluten back in happened more quickly than anticipated to my stomachs detriment) and all of a sudden I panic I'm going to die in my sleep - it's ridiculous but there we go!

Mine is awful. I'm on double doses of both types of antihistamines and still it's not enough

Really bad at the moment despite the wet weather I don't know what is going on. I sneeze and sniff and drip got a headache, feel tired, itch it's really bad this year I can't take antihistamines because they make me scoff like a pig too. Hope you feel ok OP

Yes, mine has been AWFUL in the last couple of weeks.

Mines been awful this year, and I've heard lots of other people say the same so it does sound like it's been particularly bad this summer. I'm allergic to grass pollen and usually suffer from May to the end of June but it has gone on longer into July this year which has never really happened before.

Glad to have fellow sufferers who have been really bad too, makes me feel not quite so alone :)

Pooh have a read into the types of herbicides etc used on certain fruits. My MIL has quite severe allergic reactions to some fruit (apples mostly) because of the way they are treated. If there are fruits that are making your mouth tingle there may be a new allergy building which you've attributed so hayfever as its pretty nasty this year anyway. I really hope the doctors find out what's happening soon

It's asthma, surely? Triggered by hay fever

Pooh vertigo is acute dizziness like when you spin rou round as a child. It makes y vomit.

I developed hay fever to tree pollen when DD (8) was born. Typical symptoms but manageable with medication. Thankfully no grass pollen hay fever so at least it was short lived.

Then, the hay fever stopped 2 years ago. Bonus, I thought...

Cue March this year and I had a near fatal anaphylactic attack triggered by something I ate. Tests done, food groups identified (soft fruits stones, nuts). Had a series of allergic reactions despite avoiding foods like the plague (lost 2 stone in process - yeah, the anaphylactic attack really messed with my head ) but not quite epipen level.

Last Wednesday, driving to work, no food in my stomach since night before, and drove into what felt like a wall of heavy rain. Within seconds, I became glassy, throat itching, tongue and mouth itching, awful headache. I was another minute pulling into work and colleagues noticed my voice thickening and breathing wheezing. I worsened, nasal passage closed so epipen used and 999 called.

Paramedics were fab. They wondered whether the heavy downpour of rain unsettled the pollen and I'd had a mega-blast of it, triggering the attack.

My GP surgery isn't interested. They keep re prescribing my epipen and an "all the best". Luckily though, unlike you lot, I don't get the daily symptoms. TBH, I don't know what the hell is going on but I feel like a ticking time-bomb.

Welshmoth are you me? I ate a stoned fruit, cue immediate change in my voice, tightening no of my throat and almost severe panic - this went beyond tingling as i could barely breathe. Due to this Dr prescribed EpiPen.

Driving, without having eaten, wall of rain, difficulty breathing, EpiPen and 999. Again, paramedics were great and thought it migh t be hayfever. To be fair they were brilliant, a & e had a go at me for being in the wrong area (put their by paramedics) then gave me a piriton and told me to go home without any further information or re prescribing another pen. I'm not sure what i was expecting but it wasn't to be treated like i'd wasted everyone's time when 3 hours before it was serious enough to blue light me in would like to point out it was my Dr who called 999 not me!

Am currently identifying what good i can or can't eat due to the tingling - it starts as tingling but gets worse stupidly quickly

I'm also being tested for Asthma and am being treated as if i've got it but haven't had a formal diagnosis,although this has all happened in the last two weeks!

Not vertigo then, was hoping a name for the feeling would appear :)

I have it earlier in year and was very bad. Lots of nosebleeds etc. Mine normally stops at end of May/early June but i seem to be having symptoms again this week. I thought it was a cold until the dreaded nose itching 🙁

Ds really bad. Mine flares when it's sunny but with all the rain it's been not too bad.

Mine's been much worse than usual this year. I can usually control the sneezing pretty well with antihistamine and Beconase but they're not anywhere near as effective this year.

Mine's usually come to an end by the end of June but I'm still sneezing and scratching my eyes now. Literally that is what I'm doing right now after walking the dog this morning.

I think there were reports earlier in the year of some kind of 'super pollen' that was going to make hay fever worse than usual this year?

Not to brag, but I haven't suffered at all this year and I usually get it really bad!

Foofighter until a couple of weeks ago neither had I. i fact haven't had any of the "classic" symptoms!

Pooh what a bizarre coincidence, so much so that it's tempting for one of us to think we're taking the piss

The last attack was grim - but it has to be that the rain kicked up the super-pollen?!

I was blue lighted for my first 999 and had to be given 2 doses of adrenaline. At one point, I thought I was going to die. But, 4 hours later, when you're all adrenalined-up, punctured with IV hydrocortisone, attached to ECG but breathing relatively stable, you're made to feel that you're wasting people's time. It's such a quick turn around from struggling to breathe, blacking out and praying to sitting upright and breathing normally again.

Do you get that histamine-type gell/phlegm/clear bitty jelly type stuff in your ears, nose and throat? It's hard to shift and pretty disgusting.

Also, I've had an allergic reaction to what I'm convinced is my own rhino-virus (common cold). Is that even possible?!

Can you tell that I'm really paranoid?

Sorry - missed the bit re your initial thoughts on vertigo? What are the symptoms?

So far, my foods to avoid are:

Olives
Cherries
Peaches
Nectarines
Blueberries
Hazelnuts
Random and unknown salad items
Certain ingredient in a OTC vitamin
Something in a chilled coffee?
Something airborne in a classroom
A preservative after having a reaction from tinned soup I've eaten more or less forever.

Got very sticky eyes but no other clear stuff in any other areas.

I'm concerned as to the allergy foods 😢 All the things I love areon that list and they're ones that have made my mouth itchy.