Hayfever

[Ohnopoo]

I don’t want to come across like a total prat but my hayfever is dreadful at the moment and I’m not sure whether to let my boss know or not before I go back to work next week. We have a very detailed risk assessment involving hand washing after any sneeze or blowing nose. And I’m currently sneezing and blowing my nose multiple times per hour as well as having a permanently dripping nose.

I don’t really know what I want them to do about it but wondered if I should inform them that I’m a walking snot machine!

I’m taking tablets and nose spray & will phone gp tomorrow to see if I can get a prescription for fexodenadine.

@Springcatkin its prescribed hayfever tablets from GP, basically the strongest stuff you can get before you go for a jab. There are no other tablets stronger than that in the UK.

I’ve asked about the injection a few times but been told it’s not given any more.
Yes-do the Vaseline, regular showers, snorting water up my nose.
The only thing I may have to stop is drying washing outside-I don’t normally but because it’s been such lovely weather I’ve been hanging it out.
Just about to take first tablet. Fingers crossed!

Very glad I came across this thread. Do these sound like hayfever symptoms? Obviously with everything going on I'm a bit worried they could be covid. I think it's probably allergies though I've just never suffered with hayfever.. that or I've never really noticed but at the moment just more aware of symptoms. I have a postnasal drip, stuffy nose, some sneezing, headache/sinus pain, dry scratchy throat. Occasional cough but it's not involuntary if that makes sense, nor is it continuous.

to those asking about the injection you may be able to get it privately if funds allow. I had it last year (privately) and it was a real gamechanger. The clinic that does them had been shut due to COVID but has recently reopened and I have now managed to book one for next Monday - I am sooo happy. It is £150 but worth every penny for me.

I asked about the injection to but you have to have it a few months before the season so later this year I'm going to ask for it

Mine is horrific this year. I never get it this badly. My asthma is also terrible even with my preventive inhaler. I also have a terrible cough. My skin is itching too

Avocado-sounds like hayfever to me but if you put those info the Zoe Covid app they might ask you to test. Try some antihistamines and see if they go.

Hay fever has lasted for months here - high pollen count by the Rhine

So I always wear a face mask when I go out, just in case I'm unknowingly infectious

cycling that will be a different injection. You mean the immunotherapy ones which are a series of injections which do need to be given well in advance. The injection I am having is the Kenalog injection which chntreatsbthebsymproma and can be given any time.. It can work in 24 hours but it took around 3/4 days to kick in for me last year. It normally lasts around 3 months. I would have had it around start of May this year but the clinic was closed so I am having it a bit later than ideal but still can't wait to get some relief from this!

Random typo word jumble! Should say: treats the symptoms

Oh help it hasn’t kicked in and I feel even worse. I’ve just had a loratadine in desperation. Maybe will get some piriton as I think you can take that together with the fexofenadine.

Will look into the injection. Will pay anything!

ohno sympathy - it is really grim. Currently I'm taking fexofenadine, benadryl (the acrivastine one) and chlorphenamine 2- 3 times a day, along with my inhaler and eye drops. Im counting down the hours until my injection. Next year Im booking the injection for begining of May

You might need a couple of days for it to build up in your system. I've also found that Pirinase nasal spray has made a huge difference to me.

Injection booked for next Friday-can cancel if the tablets have kicked in by then.
Eyes have been much better. Have been washing my face and snorting water every hour. The only year I can remember being this bad was when dd had just been born and I couldn’t take any medication. Those few weeks are a blur of snot, milk and tears!

ohno sounds a good plan. I should add that I did used to get some better relif from the nasal sprays actually, but I had to stop using them because they gave me recurring nosebleeds (like several a day which became more debilitating than the original symptoms!)

Where are you getting your injection is it by the gp? I am a frontline nhs worker and having hay fever is awful at the minute I am so cautious that I am constantly touching my nose/eyes and my mask keeps needed changed as sneezing is not good in there !

No I’ve found a private clinic who do it. It’s an hours drive for a 10 minute appointment and £75!

I'm suffering terribly with hay fever this year. I'm taking Fexofenadine plus Piriton, nasal spray and eye drops and I'm still a mess

I'm going to look into the injection I think, I can't carry on like this 😭

I thought you could only take one antihistamine tablet a day.....

Every time you return to the house shower to get pollen off of you and especially out of your hair, do not go you sleep without showering.

Also don't dry washing outside at all.

We are currently living in a bizarre state with no windows ever being opened and the sound of DS sneezing pretty much consistently. His favourite place is in the shower with a fork to itch the roof of his mouth.

If fenofexadine doesn't work (which it does a bit but not totally for him you can be referred for immunotherapy, I'm not sure how much it is but the NHS wouldn't pay and neither would our private health care provider.

I thought you could only take one antihistamine tablet a day....

I think there’s some flex in it. At one point I was prescribed 4 x 120mg Fexofenadine for a skin allergy I had, but this was done by a private dermatologist.

You can apparently happily mix antihistamines (eg. Pirinase and Telfast).

Beconase works for me takes a few days to get into your system but that coupled with tablet antihistamines allows me to have a somewhat normal life while grass pollen attempts to murder me

My hay fever is awful this year! I think the pollen count must be very high

I sneezed so hard yesterday I gave myself a nose bleed.