Hay Fever

[Slipperduke]

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this, but my hay fever has been so bad in the last 24 hours that I've had to trap myself in the isolation booth of my study with the windows and doors closed. Just leaving this stuffy sanctuary for a moment, even for a wee, precipitates a sneezing fit that could crack ribs. It's not fair. The medication is doing nothing at all.

Anyone else suffering?

 

[HUTTON]

Yes, have had it for past 3 months, really getting on my nerves now

 

[londonblue]

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this, but my hay fever has been so bad in the last 24 hours that I've had to trap myself in the isolation booth of my study with the windows and doors closed. Just leaving this stuffy sanctuary for a moment, even for a wee, precipitates a sneezing fit that could crack ribs. It's not fair. The medication is doing nothing at all.

Anyone else suffering?

I used to get it so badly that I would have to do as you describe. The only difference being that I would have to draw the curtains aswell because the light would affect me. I would have an argument with my mum every day too because I would come home from school and the windows in my bedroom would be open. It didn't matter how many times I pleaded with her to leave them closed...

The last couple of days I haven't even sneezed once, and we live right by a load of fields full of oil seed rape, that in the past would have killed me. The real test will come next weekend when I go for a 10k run right past them all.

 

[Slipperduke]

I used to get it so badly that I would have to do as you describe. The only difference being that I would have to draw the curtains aswell because the light would affect me.

I have just drawn the curtains and it seems to be helping. I can at least remove the wad of tissues (Cricko, insert joke here) from my mouth.

It's a very stuffy bubble in here, I must say. Having just finished a preview of Greece against Sweden that took three issues of World Soccer, umpt-teen archived march reports and two cups of coffee, I'd really like to get out and go for a nice walk, or a bit of a sunbathe.

I won't say that the constant sneezing, sniffing, sweating and itching is irritating, but right now I want the board of directors at Clarityn lined up against a wall and shot for their incompetence. Is that harsh? I don't think it's harsh. Who thinks it's harsh.

*cocks pistol*

 

[Mad Cyril]

I have just drawn the curtains and it seems to be helping. I can at least remove the wad of tissues (Cricko, insert joke here) from my mouth.

It's a very stuffy bubble in here, I must say. Having just finished a preview of Greece against Sweden that took three issues of World Soccer, umpt-teen archived march reports and two cups of coffee, I'd really like to get out and go for a nice walk, or a bit of a sunbathe.

I won't say that the constant sneezing, sniffing, sweating and itching is irritating, but right now I want the board of directors at Clarityn lined up against a wall and shot for their incompetence. Is that harsh? I don't think it's harsh. Who thinks it's harsh.

*cocks pistol*

My advice would be to read Day of the Triffids and be thankful that some of us are making sure that plants don't conquer the entire human race.

 

[Southend_Lady]

Suffering very very badly yesterday and today.

Very swollen eyes and sore aswell. Nose blocked so much that not even a tiny bit of oxygen can get in. I have the dryest mouth ever today as I must have had to breath through my mouth all night. Inside of ears itch, aswell as roof of my mouth. Tight chest too as also suffer asthma and hayfever affects it.

I can't find ANYTHING that even relieves the symptons. I have 2 hayfever tablets (one for extra luck) and nothing happens - HELP.

 

[Yer Blues]

i find the really cheap and nasty hayfeaver tablets from boots do the trick

 

[Slipperduke]

Suffering very very badly yesterday and today.

Very swollen eyes and sore aswell. Nose blocked so much that not even a tiny bit of oxygen can get in. I have the dryest mouth ever today as I must have had to breath through my mouth all night. Inside of ears itch, aswell as roof of my mouth. Tight chest too as also suffer asthma and hayfever affects it.

I can't find ANYTHING that even relieves the symptons. I have 2 hayfever tablets (one for extra luck) and nothing happens - HELP.

I've got the asthma sideshow as well. It's really gratifying to see nature double-manning us in this way, isnt it? Way to kick you when you're down.

Piriton seems to work eventually, but it's the medicinal equivilant of a mug of hot milk, a fluffy blanket and BBC 2 costume drama; it sends me to sleep in no time.

 

[Slipperduke]

My advice would be to read Day of the Triffids and be thankful that some of us are making sure that plants don't conquer the entire human race.

A superb book, make no mistake. Surprised no-one's tried to remake it as a movie yet, especially in these pollen-afflicted times. There's a real market.

 

[Southend_Lady]

i find the really cheap and nasty hayfeaver tablets from boots do the trick

Got them and Im having two day and still no relief!

Thing is where I am taking my inhaler too it gives me the shakes, its just a side effect of it. Its making me look like I should be in rehab and that I am trying to withhold form my next hit of heroine or something.

Going to go to Boots at lunch at make some demands for something stronger perhaps some class A's will take my mind of it.

I've been advised to try one called Telfast or something?

 

[Southend_Lady]

I've got the asthma sideshow as well. It's really gratifying to see nature double-manning us in this way, isnt it? Way to kick you when you're down.

Piriton seems to work eventually, but it's the medicinal equivilant of a mug of hot milk, a fluffy blanket and BBC 2 costume drama; it sends me to sleep in no time.

Yeah its the eyes that are doing me in at the moment. Plus it doesn't make sense how a nose can run so much but be near on impossible to blow....roll on holiday to Zante next week as I don't seem to suffer abroad. Im convinced I'm allergic to this country. I blame Gordon Brown for it.

 

[Yer Blues]

Yeah its the eyes that are doing me in at the moment. Plus it doesn't make sense how a nose can run so much but be near on impossible to blow....roll on holiday to Zante next week as I don't seem to suffer abroad. Im convinced I'm allergic to this country. I blame Gordon Brown for it.

not nicky bailey?

 

[BrettieAngell]

I start taking hayfever tablets in March or April, just the one a day jobbies from Asda was sneezing a bit yesterday and my eyes are a bit sore this morning but fingers crossed i've been alright.

 

[Ricey]

I have been walking round everywhere no matter how light/sunny dark etc it is wearing sunglasses to stop me itching my eyes. It is the worst it has ever been this year.

 

[Davros]

I have just drawn the curtains and it seems to be helping. I can at least remove the wad of tissues (Cricko, insert joke here) from my mouth.

It's a very stuffy bubble in here, I must say. Having just finished a preview of Greece against Sweden that took three issues of World Soccer, umpt-teen archived march reports and two cups of coffee, I'd really like to get out and go for a nice walk, or a bit of a sunbathe.

I won't say that the constant sneezing, sniffing, sweating and itching is irritating, but right now I want the board of directors at Clarityn lined up against a wall and shot for their incompetence. Is that harsh? I don't think it's harsh. Who thinks it's harsh.

*cocks pistol*

it is indeed unfortunate that your job involves often sitting around a big grassy field!

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

Pah .. hayfever, thats a stroll in the park (no pun intended heeheehee) compared to the purgatory i'm going through at the moment

I'm trying to quit smoking (5 days, or to be more accurate 129 hours 47 minutes ... not that i'm counting you understand) and i'm on the verge of doing a Michael Ryan down Progress Road :darkcloud: (where's the guns smiley when its needed most !!!)

 

[Emu]

Got them and Im having two day and still no relief!

Thing is where I am taking my inhaler too it gives me the shakes, its just a side effect of it. Its making me look like I should be in rehab and that I am trying to withhold form my next hit of heroine or something.

Going to go to Boots at lunch at make some demands for something stronger perhaps some class A's will take my mind of it.

I've been advised to try one called Telfast or something?

Kev was on Telfast up to the beggining of last Summer but got changed onto Benadryl as they are stronger. Kev has been awful with his hayfever past few days, went to Lakeside on Thursday and was sniffing, sneezing and a runny nose all over the place. Everytime we walked past some toilets he went to get some tissues!!

He sp[oke to someone he works with though and apparently theres some injection you can get and it lasts quite a while too. Guy he works with says it makes him a 100 times better so i think Kev is of to the doctors after our hol to try and get this injection.

Em.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Pah .. hayfever, thats a stroll in the park (no pun intended heeheehee) compared to the purgatory i'm going through at the moment

I'm trying to quit smoking (5 days, or to be more accurate 129 hours 47 minutes ... not that i'm counting you understand) and i'm on the verge of doing a Michael Ryan down Progress Road :darkcloud: (where's the guns smiley when its needed most !!!)

Explains a lot.... :D

 

[palexander]

I've had hayfever since a kid - bad every year since :(

It seems to start later and finish sooner though, so maybe in the future I'll only get it for one day! Anyway, I've tried absolutely everything and nothing really helps.

I was on the strongest pescription tablets, nothing. ASDA own brand seemed to help for a bit last year, but not this year.

I actually went out and got one of the new things you stick up your nose this weekend. I fires red light up your nostrils and is supposed to halt the cells in your nose from making histomine. Must say, aside from giving everyone a good laugh (it totally illuminates your nose!), I've not seen any real benefit yet.

So sitting indoors and suffering. As horrible as it is, I always take solice in the fact that I am lucky to work from home, so can lock myself away, rather than working in an office where non-understanding colleagues open all the windows and laugh at your sneezing :(

 

[Southend_Lady]

Kev was on Telfast up to the beggining of last Summer but got changed onto Benadryl as they are stronger. Kev has been awful with his hayfever past few days, went to Lakeside on Thursday and was sniffing, sneezing and a runny nose all over the place. Everytime we walked past some toilets he went to get some tissues!!

He sp[oke to someone he works with though and apparently theres some injection you can get and it lasts quite a while too. Guy he works with says it makes him a 100 times better so i think Kev is of to the doctors after our hol to try and get this injection.

Em.

Well mines so bad that I have been told I should take steroids. It affects my asthma so they said it is in my interest to take them but I didn't want to. I am now considering it though as I'm finding it really hard to deal with it. You just cannot get on with work as normal when you feel as though you have eyes full of grit.

I was told that you have to have the hayfever injection months before the symptons start so I am going to have it next year for sure!