Nothing is touching my hayfever!

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This year is mad, and I’m not functioning. Aibu to not have a clue how to cope.
lots of tablets, nasal sprays, eye drops and I’m still streaming. I can barely work and I think my sinuses are a mess too now. I can’t sleep.
for the natural remedies, my neighbour keeps bees and we always have local honey.
I shower off, everything. It’s like it so systemic there’s no blip

Fexofenodine is available over the counter now. 120mg tablets but you can get 180mg prescribed.

Hay-fever seems so much worse this year.

You haven’t said what antihistamines you have tried. For example have you tried fexofenadine yet? Used to be prescription only but a lower strength is now available OTC

It's really bad at the moment, even I have it and I have never had hay fever before!

DD has just started fexofenadine as the loratadine and Piriton weren't working. Also buco nase, I think that's what it's called.

When you say nasal sprays, have you tried the steroid ones?
I suffer terrible with hayfever. I've had sinus symptoms for over 2 years which really affected me. It got to the point I couldn't taste or smell and I was getting chronic headaches daily, I couldn't get out of bed some days because my headaches were so bad. Occasionally it wouldn't be my ethmoid sinus that was blocked (causing headaches) but I'd get pain in my cheek and toothache.

I've been using Mometasone nasal spray now for a few months and my sinus's are amazing! I've not had a headache since a few weeks after starting it.

Also to add that it seems the general protocol for sinusitis seems to be 3 months on a steroid spray and if it doesn't work, then ENT referral.

My mum has the injection as nothing else touches her hayfever.

I find Vaseline around the nose helps. Also, vicks on the chest before bed and regular menthol steam inhalation (boiling water and towel over the head). I would call your GP for advice if you're still feeling bad and home remedies aren't helping.

At the risk of sounding obvious
have you changed the antihistamines?
have you seen a gp for stronger one?

Loratidine and Cetrizine aren't working for me this year. Chloramphenamine Maleate is working for me this time - every 4 hours. Normally Cetirizine works for me. You may need to shop around for whatever works for you. Try the pharmacy and have a discussion about what you've tried and what else is available.

I was so desperate yesterday I had the children's Benedryl in liquid form and it was the first relief I had had in weeks - after all sorts of balms and OTC pills.

Another vote for fexofenadine, it absolutely changed my life after years of brutal hayfever symptoms. I buy it OTC now, but can still get a script if I need a higher dose.

I know someone who has the injection as nothing else works, I think he pays £80 a time - not cheap, but it's small change when you're really suffering!

So pill form Cetrizine doesn't work but liquid form Cetrizine DOES work

So odd. I've tried so many types of pills and it has costed me a fortune!!

No idea why liquid form works....

I just used Tesco whoosh for first time ever as couldn't face another day with nose streaming and constant sneezing. Anti histamines delivered from ordering to door in 19 mins. Impressive.

Hope they work. Feel exhausted with constant running nose.
Definately bad pollen this week.

Does fexofenadine have any drowsy side effects?

I've only had hay-fever this bad once before (2006 to be exact) and I kept fainting and falling asleep due to the extra strong pills. So I'm a bit wary of high doses

This consultant allergist is really helpful: twitter.com/londonallergy/status/1667620179981877248?s=46&t=lVt-WH-GcsPlMCKrCR4ukg

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This is my first year of hay-fever EVER.

I live semi-rurally and every bastard farmer has been cutting their bastard grass fields for haylage. Nothing has touched my hayfever symptoms this week. I’d have happily destroyed every tractor in the area earlier in the week it was so bad.
They have finally finished now and I can breathe and sleep again.
You have my sympathies OP. I don’t know where you live but if you’ve got grass fields nearby, hopefully there’s some respite in sight once they’re all mowed.

I took 3 cetrizine yesterday to get on top of it and it worked. It’s a very safe antihistamine.

Does anyone know what the maximum dose is for fexofenadine? I am prescribed 180mg once a day but I'm sure more would help !!

Pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and ozone can attack the pollen grains, bursting them open and releasing more of the highly allergic proteins that trigger hay fever. Ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide pollution also attack the membranes in the respiratory tract, making people more susceptible to the pollen

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299972/average-age-of-cars-on-the-road-in-the-united-kingdom/

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8995/vehicles-summary.pdf

as cars on road increase hay fever gets worse, until pollution is decreased the health problems will get worse.

Although most people think that by riding a bicycle or by walking on the side of the road we breathe more pollution than inside a car, it is actually the opposite! The study revealed that levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were on average 21% higher inside the vehicle with the windows shut than on the road outside.

https://easyecotips.com/air-quality-inside-your-car-is-worse-than-outside/#:~:text=Although%20most%20people%20think%20that,than%20on%20the%20road%20outside.

Stop driving, as your car is making the hay fever worse, both for you inside the car and for others

Obviously there will be needed trips, but the less you sit in a car the better - probably not what people want to hear, sorry

I’m near the coast in one of most rural parts of Britain….

Tried fenofexadine, it worked a few years ago but not this year

Fexo 180mg and nasal spray. Take it every day without fail not just when you have issues