Hayfever, i am suffering badly today

[Frozzie]

oh poor hally...looks like andie may have the solution for you...hope it works and you all feel better and in control of your hayfever! 

[Halex]

Feeling a little better than yesterday, hopefully not all day bed today as so much to do.

Thanks JD, your an angel.

Andisenji, i am taking zyrtec atm, not doing much.

What I have realised from all this duscussion hayfever is not to be treated once you have it, it is to be treated by prevention before you get it. I suffer badly and only take meds etc when i am out if actio

Going to get rhinocourt and use it daily, the nasal spray i am using is natural and does nothing.

Do you guys take anti histamine all year as well or just at the start of the season.

The other issue i have is the anti hisamines i use seem to work for a while, then my body gets used to them and they dont seem to work.

I have had claratyne, polaramine, zyrtec, telfast, zadine (whch sends me to sleep but worked well). I find the drowsy ones work betterm but then i fall asleep, need to find a good one which doesnt make me drowsy.

H

[Bedlam]

Thank goodness you are feeling better,are you still able to get that demo?
Theyvare saying it a bad year for sufferers so might be worth consulting a doctor ( if you know of a good one).  We have all been down with a nasty bug( I usually call it wog but my cousins in the UK were very offended as they don't call sickness that). It seems there is a lot around, I think the changeable weather doesnt help.
Stay well Hally, I'm sorry if you have missed out on the 1/2 price bowl offer.

[Halex]

Yes the demo was last night, but had to cancel. Was asleep pretty early.

I am getting the bowl and blades anyway, i have waited so long and as i told dh, you win some you loose some.  nit sure wrhether he bought that, but he knws I am ordering.

Totally medicated up, if you shook me i would rattle.

Yes people who havent had hayfever before are getting it this year, so must be bad.

No hayfever in hawaii, i need to move, oh i wish.... No i do love Perth, we have the easterlys which are not good for sufferes.

H

[Bedlam]

I love to travel but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, think we are blessed.
I was going to say do it anyway and get another bowl. I paid full price and honestly have never had any regrets you actually add value to your machine because you can do so much more.
I wish I could afford another whole TMX, especially cooking for a vegetarian!

[andiesenji]

I take Zyrtec every day and have for 4 1/2 years.  When I ran out of the pills a year or so ago, I had recurrence of allergies and after resuming them it took four or five days before I was back to "normal" and breathing clear.
I don't think it works immediately and my doctor told me to take it prophylactically beginning ahead of the "season" and continuing until the "season" ended but I found I had other allergies and it has been easier to just take it continuously.  The generic is only a fraction of the cost of the brand.

[Halex]

Hi Andisenji,

Yes i am realising that everything i am taking is not an instant fix, it all takes time. I feel better today than I did yesterday so they are working but obviously needs to have a stockpile in the body to fight off the allergies.

Interesting that when you ran out of tablets you suffered again.

I just wonder what harm taking these everyday do to our bodies

Thanks
H

[Cuilidh]

Every year I say to my body "you are going to defeat this hay fever ... you do not need medication ... you will be fine".  Yes, well, needless to say it never works and I have to resort to some sort of antihistamine.  I have tried various natural ones and Chinese Medicine as well over the years, but they are never quite strong enough and I end up back on Telfast or Zyrtec or one of the others.

Funnily enough, when we lived in Hong Kong I never suffered, so (for my hay fever, anyway) it is obviously one of the grasses that we "Westerners" cultivate, or something that doesn't grow in the tropical / humid climates that gets to me.

[andiesenji]

Hi Andisenji,

Yes i am realising that everything i am taking is not an instant fix, it all takes time. I feel better today than I did yesterday so they are working but obviously needs to have a stockpile in the body to fight off the allergies.

Interesting that when you ran out of tablets you suffered again.

I just wonder what harm taking these everyday do to our bodies

Thanks
H

I'm 72 so I don't worry all that much.  It is better than the bad old days when I had to take a lot of steroids, cortisone and always had to have a bronchodilator (inhaler) handy because the allergies also caused asthma attacks.  I haven't had one of those for almost ten years - since I began taking daily antihistamines, instead of just when I had symptoms.  I took Astelin nasal spray for several years and it worked great but I began to get nosebleeds, (a known complication) so had to go on to pills.  My allergist tried Allegra and one other which worked fairly well but I had such success with the Zyrtec that became my standard.  I was thrilled when it became available over the counter and even more so when the generic came out.  

I had to stop taking cortisone because the side effects of swelling in my face, hands and feet were worse than the allergies.  It was also doing some damage to my kidneys and my lab results were not good.  That has mostly cleared up but my internist thinks that the long-term use of cortisone was one of the reasons I developed Type 2 diabetes because there is none in my family.

[Halex]

Andisenji, you poor love, glad to hear its in the past.

DH bought me some rhinocort, so have sprayed that and on anti hsamine and sudafed, beginning to brighten up. No enerrgy is an issue too.
H

[cookie1]

Hally I use rhinocort all year round. I know it's a drug but I am not a nice person when I have hayfever. When I get an attack I sometimes find that taking a polaramine each night for 4 or 5 nights helps and gives you lots of anti histamines in the system to fight the histamines that are being created.

[Halex]

Cookie, I am going to be like you take the rhinocort everyday.

How do you remember to do so? I am yseless once i feel better it goes out of my head.

H

[Cuilidh]

Hally - I always find it helps if you put whatever it is that you want to remember somewhere obvious - although my main way of reminding myself is to put a note into my shoe then, when I go to put my shoes on (I only have a couple of pairs so it's a pretty fool-proof system) I find the note and that jogs my memory.

[fundj&e]

HALLY

[jkmt]

I finished reading this thread today, and then went up to school to get the kids. Guess what, one of the mums there also mentioned Zyrtec as being great! The heavens must be trying to tell me something, as I too, have been having a difficult week with hayfever symptoms. I guess I'll be off to the chemist this weekend.