Hay fever

Who suffers with it and has it started to affect you already? i suffer and its started affecting me today!

I've had a touch of it over the week- mostly my throat being well itchy.

I think a lot of trees throw their pollen out in April, before the main season starts.

Tell me about it. never used to suffer from it as a kid, but started about 5 years ago. I started about 2 weeks ago this year, feels like I got a constant cold, not good

I get it quite bad when the rape is in full flower.
I get an injection once a year and it stops it completly .
The doctor didnt want to give it to me until I had tried every other option first though.

Originally Posted by speedplay

I get it quite bad when the rape is in full flower.
I get an injection once a year and it stops it completly .
The doctor didnt want to give it to me until I had tried every other option first though.

I've had the injections when I had A levels and Uni exams, they're corticosteroids, if you get them every year they can give you real problems when you get older, especially if you need them again for different reasons etc.

They work amazingly, its unbelievable, no sneezing at all for around 8 months. Worth it if you have it very badly, and if you have exams or something serious in the year.

Originally Posted by cb5_keith

I've had the injections when I had A levels and Uni exams, they're corticosteroids, if you get them every year they can give you real problems when you get older, especially if you need them again for different reasons etc.

They work amazingly, its unbelievable, no sneezing at all for around 8 months. Worth it if you have it very badly, and if you have exams or something serious in the year.

They didnt want to give them due to problems with brittle bones later in life.
I was given everything possible but none of them worked well enough.
My arguement was as I was on the tools as a Contract carpenter I was using power tools and doing a lot of roofing.
If i was sneezing and my eyes were streaming all the time, I was at more risk without it than I would be with it.

Originally Posted by speedplay

I get it quite bad when the rape is in full flower.
I get an injection once a year and it stops it completly .
The doctor didnt want to give it to me until I had tried every other option first though.

I used to do this, but the one they used to give me was a steriod and apparently your body gets used to it and they cause issues when you get older. I find Zyrtec works a treat though, so stick with that.

Originally Posted by speedplay

They didnt want to give them due to problems with brittle bones later in life.
I was given everything possible but none of them worked well enough.
My arguement was as I was on the tools as a Contract carpenter I was using power tools and doing a lot of roofing.
If i was sneezing and my eyes were streaming all the time, I was at more risk without it than I would be with it.

Sounds like a good argument to me! I take crappy tablets now, may get the injection for the summer, but might just deal with it

Another sufferer reporting for duty. My eyes went so itchy today. Grrr. Usually a few eyedrops - over the counter stuff - fixes it. I don't get it near the sea, only here where we're miles from the briny.

Originally Posted by cb5_keith

Sounds like a good argument to me! I take crappy tablets now, may get the injection for the summer, but might just deal with it

The stupid thing is that I never had it all the time I was living and working in north devon.
27 years with nothing.
I moved to Northampton and my first 12 months were house bashing in london and I started to get it then.
Eyes were only ok when I was scratching the hell out of them and my nose was constantly running.
Must have been the london air.

I'm the same if I visit now, 1 day in london and I have a week of hell after

Still, I have heard that hay fever can go as quickly as it comes.

Fingers crossed....