I am puzzled!
I am 60 and started getting hayfever for the first time in my life 5 years ago after a lung infection seems to have weakened my system or something.
When the pollen shot sky high a few weeks ago, I suffered so badly and had the manage the condition 20 hours a day. Despite taking on cetirizine at night and another in the morning, I woke each morning wheezing, struggling to breathe, lungs so congested with mucus that I had to cough up over the sink for 15 minutes before I could even breathe through my mouth properly.
I had to use Fostair via a mask thing, then put special HF eyedrops and nose spray, then have a good blow 6 or 7 times just to start the day. All day at the office, my nose alternated between being severely blocked, to running literally like a water tap. To get my work done, I was literally stuffing tissues up my nostrils, because otherwise the water just ran down my face and into my mouth and dripped onto my blouse! At random times I would have a choking/coughing fit so violent (I guess my body trying to save my life by clearing the airways of mucus!) that I literally wet my knickers every single time!
This was all day, every day, and carried on even though I upped the antihistamines to 4 a day and paid out for the very best and most expensive stuff to spray up my nose etc. At one point I had not breathed through my nose for at least a week.
I dared not go outside lest fresh pollen made it worse, but stayed as much as I could in a small office with aircon. At home I stayed mainly in a room in which the windows are air proofed, bought an air purifier (£200!) and shut myself in there almost the whole time. I kept all the doors and windows firmly shut throughout the house and did not let the cat sit on me as her coat might be covered in pollen.
I checked the forecast and saw that there would be no let-up for WEEKS and this was going to dominate me 20 hrs a day for the foreseeable future. I was utterly miserable! The thought of having to stay indoors the whole summer - even on my birthday!
Then, suddenly, and for seemingly no reason that I can fathom, it just stopped. I mean it completely disappeared! I even wake up with a clear nose. I am now back down to just one cet. a day.
I have checked the pollen count daily and it tells me it remains at "EXTREMELY HIGH".
Can anyone tell me how I managed to rid myself of hay fever? I want to know how I did it so that I can do it again if it comes back, and also advise any other people who I might meet who are suffering as much as I was.
Thank you.