Pollen, Allergies

[miguelito 11254]

Might as well get this started, since we're right in the heart of Oak season.

Here is a graph of the last 2 year's counts.  Honestly, we haven't had any real high numbers yet this year, with a high so far of 4130.  But as you know, life can be miserable with counts only in the hundreds sometimes. 

 

[Washpark 176]

I have been dying past few days. I usually don't take meds for allergies but this time may break me.

[dcbc 14465]

I have been a mess since last week.  Benedryl is getting me through the nights and Alieve C&S during the day.  We needs some rain.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

49 minutes ago, Washpark said:

I have been dying past few days. I usually don't take meds for allergies but this time may break me.

Yep, last 72 hours have been brutal. Saturday it was to the point I was even getting chills. Sunday let up a bit, or it’s the Flonase I am trying now. 

[llanoflash 151]

Been using 10mg loratadine. Miss one dose and I might scratch my fucking skin off right now. 

[Deej 76755]

My entire yard is an inch deep in oak jizz.

[HornsOverIthaca 2333]

Wear a pollen mask when doing yard work

[miguelito 11254]

Shit, I wear a hazmat suit.

[bluto 4912]

yup, felt almost cold like this weekend. miserable

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

Bought a navage last year to help with this shit. Been sucking great big globs of snot out for the last 4 days.

That, and the Zyrtec and Flonase seem to be helping. Still haven't found a good eye drop though.

[uoftorange 1386]

Just pressure washed about 5 tons of pollen off my cool deck around the pool

[MissingInAction 25013]

My car looks like a giant neon booger.

[F250 28764]

This weekend I was complaining about my allergies to my wife. Then I mentioned that year everything was covered in yellow-green pollen for weeks. "At least we don't have that stuff everywhere", I said, then I walked outside.

 

 

 

[Radical Larry 28561]

Fuck this oak shit. 

[miguelito 11254]

4600 today. Rain coming later today (oh please, oh please).

The last 2 years we had some days over 20,000.  So, could be worse.

 

[miguelito 11254]

Oh, I went outside for about 2 minutes this morning, and I sneezed several times, and my nose hasn't stopped draining.  Time for drugs.  (As if there were a time for no drugs)

[markstanco 12571]

errything in North Texas is painted Oregon Ducks green.

[Viper 12103]

It's been a rough last two months. Mostly been allergy free after starting allergy shots, but moving to once every 3 weeks last year, along with 2 cats at home and this pollen season has been brutal.

[sdm 847]

Morning - Zyrtec and Benedryl to start kick the protection

Lunch - Flonase

Night - Azelastine

That's been my routine since xmas. So far it's held my allergies at bay and hopefully I'll start paring the list sometime in April.

[TwiceHorn 31438]

I usually get the snots around this time of year, which turns into a chest cold.  This time, it's gone directly to my chest.  Ow.

[SmokeyTheBear 5562]

[sidis 9823]

it will be nice that this rain over the next few days knocks all the oak out of the air...however, it will begin the end-times for us alternaria mold sufferers.

[KuЯdt 248]

This time of year usually destroys me with the Oak, but Flonase has been a damn miracle worker.

[NOMAAA 1696]

the list of things i would do to never have allergies again is very long and disgusting.

[TwiceHorn 31438]

18 minutes ago, sidis said:

it will be nice that this rain over the next few days knocks all the oak out of the air...however, it will begin the end-times for us alternaria mold sufferers.

Yeah, I'm allergic to everything airborne, basically, but the pollen is the worst for me.

[Bosco 56]

My allergist prescribed a combination of Azelastine and Fluticasone.  It has worked great for me, usually I would be miserable.  Can't recommend those nasal sprays enough.  

[SmokeyTheBear 5562]

My allergists told me to shove this up my nose

[Grippe 310]

The only way for me to not go insane...

 

[woohorn 1131]

Based on the chart OP posted, is it bad for about 4 weeks each year?

I don't think I can make it 3 1/2 more weeks.

 

[F250 28764]

28 minutes ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

My allergists told me to shove this up my nose

That helps for like 5 minutes.

[SurlyBDR 22770]

I want to gouge my fucking eyes out, neither of my drops (Zatidor/Opcon-A) have a snowball's chance in hell of helping. 

[austingirl 2191]

FML.

[dcbc 14465]

Finally raining steady here.

And I don't know about hackberry being low.  I've been coughing those up for days.

[markstanco 12571]

I just sneezed (shit you not) over 15 times in a less than 2 or 3 minutes. And it may have been over 20. 

The first 4 or 5 are great then I start to rage after that. 

Pretty good rain storm going on so relief is in the future. 

[miguelito 11254]

7430 today.  (The counts I post are taken in San Antonio, by the way).

This is the highest reading of the year so far, but I've got a bad feeling about the next few days. 

After all that heavy rain this week, my truck is all yellow again.

[TwiceHorn 31438]

Gah, Tuesday went down for a couple of days.  Was strange, started with a cough instead of the usual extremely stuffy head and drainage that turns into a cough.  Turrible.

[staboner 4969]

holy shit its the mold man. mold is very high in austin right now. ouch. my fucking ears feel like they are in my neck somewhere. i can hear my swallows and taste my hearing. fuck

[gurt 748]

I can’t recommend enough getting on to Flonase twice daily several months prior to oak season. Adding it in when it hits is too late.

I used to get allergy induced pink eye every year, requiring prescription steroidal eye drops just to keep them from crusting over.

Once I added Flonase to my twice daily Zyrtec it still gets bad but completely manageable. No more eye issues outside of occasional itchiness.


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[Nice Guy Eddie 13509]

I used to have bad allergies but something has changed for me over the last few years.    Theres an internet cure that you take a teaspoon of honey daily.  Preferably honey as local as possible even from your neighborhood.  The idea being that the pollen is also in the honey and you become immune to it.  

I know docs and bee experts say the honey should have no effect on allergies and maybe it’s only a coincidence that I haven’t had allergy problems in a few years. I also stopped the daily honey after the allergies went away.   

Anyway I hope everyone gets better 

[zman13 178]

Have you all tried the various nasal rinse/neti pot/navage? 

I've been using the sinus rinse for a few years. I realized, for myself, that everything I do helps about 10%. 

Allergy shots help 10%. Allergy drugs help 10%. Nasal rinse helps 10%

While it's gross, the sinus rinse is easy and cheap.

[TwiceHorn 31438]

2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I used to have bad allergies but something has changed for me over the last few years.    Theres an internet cure that you take a teaspoon of honey daily.  Preferably honey as local as possible even from your neighborhood.  The idea being that the pollen is also in the honey and you become immune to it.  

I know docs and bee experts say the honey should have no effect on allergies and maybe it’s only a coincidence that I haven’t had allergy problems in a few years. I also stopped the daily honey after the allergies went away.   

Anyway I hope everyone gets better 

That's the theory with allergy shots:  exposure to the allergen, although honey presents a different route.  I have heard that.  And, I fully believe that your system reaches a sort of detent with the local allergens.  I had reached one in N Texas before I moved to Austin and the cedar whipped my ass, then I moved back, rinse/repeat.  And I have been in Houston during the spring and had a complete respiratory spaz attack. And, of course, the allergy season(s) ramp everything up.

Edited March 30, 2018 by TwiceHorn

[Brew 3049]

Stuff kicked my butt this year. It always comes at a time when I don’t sleep much because of work which I think compounds my problems. Been taking Claritin for a few days and it seems to have helped.

[staboner 4969]

at this point its a victory if i don't throw my back out sneezing. shit is crazy again today

[Stella Link 534]

Normally don't have a problem with spring pollen, but this year it's kicked my butt.

[TwiceHorn 31438]

This is horribad.  Took two overlapping doses of benadryl to stop the leakage yesterday.  So far so good today, but I haven't been outside and can feel that  it's just waiting to start back up again.

 

Question.  Most of the time I just power through initial allergy attacks, but when my eyes and nose start leaking at high flow rates, hit the benadryl and take a nap.  Benadryl has always been effective for me.  I have a hard time dropping $25 on one of the newfangled ones, when the $5 benadryl means rapid relief.  What of the modern allergy meds should I try?

[staboner 4969]

man i don't know. i do the daily zyrtec or whatever and rotate them. i don't think they do anything though and i have greatly cut down. do more natural stuff like the neri pot, hypoallergenic sheets, air filters, etc

you are nuts taking benadryl. thats a nap for sure. sorry you have it so bad my man. 

i am actually worse in my house right now (versus outside) so not sure wtf is going on. imma go kick the dog and slap the wife just to make sure

[miguelito 11254]

10,600 yesterday, 14,810 today.

 

Oak has risen.  It is risen indeed.

[TwiceHorn 31438]

24 minutes ago, staboner said:

man i don't know. i do the daily zyrtec or whatever and rotate them. i don't think they do anything though and i have greatly cut down. do more natural stuff like the neri pot, hypoallergenic sheets, air filters, etc

you are nuts taking benadryl. thats a nap for sure. sorry you have it so bad my man. 

i am actually worse in my house right now (versus outside) so not sure wtf is going on. imma go kick the dog and slap the wife just to make sure

I dunno, I like sleep, and I am mostly non-functional when the really leaky attacks happen, so benadryl stops it and I doze off.  Win-win in my book.  I suppose it might be nice to find something that stops it and doesn't make me nod off.  I use saline spray sometimes, like now I can tell everything is just inflamed as hell inside my head.  The saline stings pretty good so I guess that's helping, I don't know.

[UDontKnow 10439]

54 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

This is horribad.  Took two overlapping doses of benadryl to stop the leakage yesterday.  So far so good today, but I haven't been outside and can feel that  it's just waiting to start back up again.

 

Question.  Most of the time I just power through initial allergy attacks, but when my eyes and nose start leaking at high flow rates, hit the benadryl and take a nap.  Benadryl has always been effective for me.  I have a hard time dropping $25 on one of the newfangled ones, when the $5 benadryl means rapid relief.  What of the modern allergy meds should I try?

Doing something like OTC Loratadine (Claritin) right when you wake up in the morning (before you go outdoors) doesn't cut it for you? It's dirt cheap if you buy in bulk at Costco/Sam's--similar to Diphenhydramine (Benadryl).

[TwiceHorn 31438]

57 minutes ago, UDontKnow said:

Doing something like OTC Loratadine (Claritin) right when you wake up in the morning (before you go outdoors) doesn't cut it for you? It's dirt cheap if you buy in bulk at Costco/Sam's--similar to Diphenhydramine (Benadryl).

Maybe I'll give that a try.  I don't care about the money if it works.  It's just hard to try anything else when you know benadryl does the job.  I remember like 20 years ago, there were two "miracle" allergy drugs by prescription (don't recall their names).  I got a scrip for one and didn't do much and before I could get the scrip for the other, it went off the market cuz it was killing people or somesuch.  Seldane was the latter, don't remember the other one.  Actually, it appears that Claritin was the one I tried that didn't seem to work very well.  Claritin and Seldane, does that sound right?

Edited April 1, 2018 by TwiceHorn