to find hayfever remedies useless?

[rainbowfudgee]

I now have a full on pressure headache, sore sinuses, itchy throat and want to scratch my own eyes out. Nose is dripping like a tap day and night. None of the antihistamines work for me. It's a minor ailment and I'm grateful for my good health every day but I'm actually feeling really unwell because of hay fever. And drowsy! Non drowsy medicine does not exist.

rainbow I would call it emergency as it's stopping you from doing normal daily life and you are really suffering. I got a phone appointment for DD and they left a prescription at reception which I picked up later that morning.

She and I are on Fexofenadine. You can get different strengths. It goes up to 180mg I believe but she and I are in 120 which seem to work just fine and we do suffer. I'm just glad we can go higher if needs be or take twice a day like a previous poster. I have taken her old 30mg ones as extras when it was bad the other day but apparently the pollen is very high at mo esp in South so depending on where you are of course it's no wonder you're suffering.

Call Dr in morning and see if they'll give you a phone appointment but lay it on so you get a prescription tomorrow as hay fever is do so miserable.

Good luck.

Op

You won’t get kenolog easily and contrary to the information posted it lasts weeks NOT years

Go and see a pharmacist rather than waste time waiting to see a gp, start with an antihistamine and if necessary try a steroid nasal spray

The latest research suggests using an antihistamine nasal spray like rhinylast is more effective than oral treatment as it’s far more targeted

I have perennial and seasonal rhinitis and brittle asthma, and have been treated for decades

I only use injected steroids as a last line treatment because they have some very nasty side effects long term

This year for the first time I’ve usd Avamys (steroid spray) and an antihistamine spray for seasonal break through and it’s been a big improvement, no more grumpy mum on oral antihistamine

No, just normal GP. Not all of them like to give you the prescription though as it's a steroid. One flat out refused and I moved Dr but checked the next one didn't mind. Then years later I moved and the same thing happened. The next Dr was on the fence but by then I knew it was effective and nothing else was working for me so he gave me the prescription. I picked it up and then booked in to get the nurse to inject it.

Just googled and it seems the NHS has stopped it (see link). You can still get it privately - they mention £75.

www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/800211/allergy-hay-fever-symptoms-jab-hayfever-NHS

Ive found i need to start taking hayfever medication before the symptoms start so i start in march/april and continue to take all summer. That way you get a build up of medication before the allergens kick off. Its also why my asthma is much better controlled by using inhalers every day - not just when i get symptoms.

Schroerdingers - it lasted years for me - I was symptom free for 3 years and it came back the 4th year. I don't care if you don't believe me. Why on earth would I make it up? It was wonderful. I suffered terribly.

Oh I'm glad it's not me. Just back in from a lovely day at a farm with rides etc - DS loved it but I am dying. Last night I fashioned home-made nostril tampons because water kept pouring uncontrollably out of my face!

I block this out for the rest of the year, then get a horrible surprise every June. Stupid arseholey grass pollen.

Another one that swears by prescription fexofenadine. Changed my life! I'd actually forgotten about my nose running like a tap.

I used the be so damn miserable at this time of year. Not any more! Get to the gp.

Most work for me, but the drowsiness makes it not worth it. As a PP said, there is no such thing as a non-drowsy antihistamine.

YANBU. I had 37 blissful hayfever free years and then BANG - miserable from June - September. That's a lot of the year to be physically miserable even if it's not exactly sick.

Bloody bloody allergies. When will they invent something that stops the (many thousands of different) reactions??!

You could ring your GP and explain - they may be able to give you an appointment

I got a kenalog shot no problem at a private clinic in Manchester. Utterly eradicated my hayfever and asthma for a whole year.

I used to have the injection, but the last time I tried to get it the GP refused. They had stopped prescribing it as some of the (albeit rare) side effects are necrosis and osteoporosis.

I get prescription fexodenadine and an inhaler, the drugs alone are not enough. I tried prevalin for a while which is a drug free inhaler. It worked but it gave me migraines so had to stop. I also tried haymax which did fuck all tbh!

Fexofenadine didn't touch me.

I take cetirizine year round. Hayfever meds have to be taken as a preventer not a reliever - if you only start when you already have symptoms, it's too late. Plus you may have other allergies as well. This is probably the main reason you find they don't work for you - you are closing the stable door after the horse has already bolted.

I know I have early allergies to narcissus, tree pollen, then have the usual grass and oil seed rape. Trying to remember when blossom season is and starting two weeks in advance (depending on the weather that year) is far too complicated for me, so I just take one every day.

Plus I mainly take mine for asthma not hayfever. I tried giving up in the winter and instantly worse so it was easier just to do it everyday.

Many areas expect you to buy your own anti-histamines and I got a whole year's worth online for pennies. Buying brandnames is not worth it.