― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm sorry? what was that? you'll have to repeat it into my good ear.
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
I do hate it though when they weather is nice and everyone is going on about how nice it is and I am suffering.
― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
I've only ever gotten it with a prescription, I can say that much, so probably.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
The worst is that I get so stuffed up that I get really nauseous and can't stand to eat anything other than toast with jelly or sprite. And I HATE soda. Or if I've remembered to buy ginger root, sip some ginger tea. My doctor doesn't fully believe me that the nausea is from allergies, but I've gotten it every spring- I blame some kind of post-nasal drip action. :-P
― lyra (lyra), Friday, 23 April 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I irrigated my nose late this morning by about 3:30PM I was getting a sinus headache (while remaining indoors most of the day).
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― spittle (spittle), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― spittle (spittle), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― spittle (spittle), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― spittle (spittle), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Spittle, you do change the a/c filter I hope?
I think what's outside gets in anyway. I woke up very congested this morning, to a degree that is unusual, even though my windows were closed.
Nasal irrigation is great. It is not a cure, but it's effective treatment. (As I've alerady posted, I do it with a Grossan tip attached to a Waterpik.)
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Can't for the life of me remember why I agreed to buy a house next to a farm :-(
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 09:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Wait, there's supposed to be a filter?
yeah, I do, but probably not as much as I should.
― spittle (spittle), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I spent most of the day inside my apartment, not to avoid allergens, but just because that's how it turned out. I finally briefly left my apartment late in the afternoon, walked several blocks, stood around outside for about five minutes drinking iced tea and enjoying some shade, and then ended up going back home soon after. For that amount of exposure I have slightly itchy nasal passages and a headache.
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Not as much pollution as London, though - I was amazed how my nostrils filled up with black goo when I was in London last week.
― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkntgn, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link
God, just realized that is such a "Yahoo! Answers" question. Nevermind. I'm just going to eat them. See you in the next life.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 16 September 2011 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
Hm... That didn't taste so good.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 16 September 2011 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
FUCK MY LIFE
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 16 September 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
hayfever is destroying my WILL TO LIVE
*shakes fists at sky*
― enchilada sauce (get bent), Saturday, 5 November 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
Woah, hayfever is plaguing you now? Are you in Australia? Never heard of anyone having hayfever this time of year in the western hemisphere
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 5 November 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
fine, call it ALLERGIC RHINITIS.
― enchilada sauce (get bent), Saturday, 5 November 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
We don't need to name names or label it, if it's that allergic reaction it's the motherfucker we have learned to hate. Feeling for u bro
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 5 November 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
i just took some flonase and a benadryl. maybe i can get some relief from said motherfucker.
― enchilada sauce (get bent), Saturday, 5 November 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
Double treatment like that should kill off the motherfucker, if only for one night.
I've found that when the going gets tough, nothing helps, for me. Hayfever/season allergy treatment still seems so hit and miss it bugs me to no end. Ffs ppl, gather 'round and make a cure that actually always works.
All the best to you, sir.
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 5 November 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
that would be miss, not sir, but thanks.
― enchilada sauce (get bent), Saturday, 5 November 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
Apologies, all the best to you miss!
Just that seasonal allergies floor me every year for two to three weeks, so I think I know what you are going through.
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 6 November 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
still do nasonex and one tab of zyrtec a day, year round. keeps it at bay. if I go off either for any longer than a few days I'm a runny nosed mess.
― akm, Sunday, 6 November 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
Hayfever mojo bad today. Everyone on the train was sneezing like mad. Thankfully, I dont get it bad here like I did back home in Canberra (I'm more allergic to native plants such as wattle and gum, much less of which is around me in Melb). If this rainy weather segues into weeks of hot windy weather we're all in for hell tho.
― Trayce, Sunday, 6 November 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
is the late arrival of autumn attacking anyone else's nose and throat?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
Just the pressure point between my eyes. Ouch.
― Gallucci Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
apparently this is one of the worst season for ragweed in recent memory, or so a friends allergist told her
― max, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
me too - have had a nonstop runny nose and have gone thru a whole box of tissues in 3 days.
usually i only have allergy problems in the springtime, this caught me off guard.
― Shut Down, vol. 3 (Lee626), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
claritin only here (besides chemo pills; I dont want more pills)
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
possibly ironically, I took a giant horse-sized antihistamine this morning for "photodermatitis" (according to my GP, who prescribed the antihistamines) and now my eyes keep watering and I feel like the top of my nose is going to explode, which I did not feel like before
(I started taking the antihistamines on Sunday but forgot yesterday's, so I feel like they're a possible trigger, but even if not, isn't this exactly the other thing I might take them to prevent? ugh. well either way I guess my skin bubbling up because I went outside in the sunlight is on-topic for this thread, or maybe there's a rolling vampire chatz thread I can take it to, I dunno)
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 08:37 (nine years ago) link
Every once in a while I go a whole day where I can't stop sneezing and it feels like my brain's been replaced by a small furry mammal intent on clawing its way out of my head through my face. For a long time I thought it was a hay-style allergy or brought on by dust but it's been known to happen at quite random times in the year, plus I just got back from a spell away staying in some very dusty houses in the south of france and only had to take antihistamines twice in two weeks. So I'm stumped.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 09:16 (nine years ago) link
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
i am getting "i feel like the top of my nose if going to explode" as well (i have been taking flonase).
― music begins where words leave off (get bent), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
is this really colony collapse? i hate and fear bees but i understand they're supposed to be bros. i am gripped with ambivalence.
― music begins where words leave off (get bent), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link
sneezin' is the reason for the season
― Faron Young Folks (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
it's been bad this year. the sudden cold snap doesn't bode well for the pollen return.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 23:18 (eight years ago) link
idk if i have a cold or allergies. either way i got sudafed today. i think it's criminal that they actually sell the phenyelphrine based "sudafed pe" to unsuspecting customers who don't know to ask for the real stuff behind the counter. phenylephrine is basically a placebo.
― Treeship, Monday, 15 June 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
a few months ago i had an operation to have a nasal polyp removed and some of the cushions at the back of my nose reduced, and since then i'm a MUCH happier bunny than I used to be. I'd been convinced of hay-fever but apparently it's a strong reaction to housemites that was making me sneeze. Strange though, that it varies from day to day. I still sneeze a bit and get an itchy nose from time to time, but it's nothing like the onslaught I used to deal with some days.
― boat of boats (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 11:56 (eight years ago) link
get bent, have you had a blood test for allergies yet?
― boat of boats (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 11:57 (eight years ago) link
lately i've been feeling extremely tired, like more than usual - waking up but unable to physically get out of bed and then feeling fuggy and abstract all day. used to get this off cetirizine but i'm starting to think that loratadine is causing these side effects.
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 09:10 (five years ago) link
not sure what is worse - feeling allergic or feeling like a weird sleepy ghost
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 09:11 (five years ago) link
also - fun heart palpitationy stuff which i've just realised is probably brought on by antihistamines. joy
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link
My daughter has never really had issues before, but this season her eyes were getting so red, itchy and watery that she started using drops. They say this is the worst allergy season ever, at least in the US, so I imagine all these little allergy sleeper cells are waking up from coast to coast.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
pro tip: anyone who has taken Zyrtec (Cetirizine) might want to know there's a new drug that's supposed to be a more effective version of the same thing, Xyzal (Levocetirizine). works pretty well for me so far. as always, it's been available in europe for a long time, so old news for some of us
― mh, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
Have tried xyzal in the past few months and it seems to work. Have to take right before retiring as it makes me extremely drowsy.
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
that's what the box says. I typically took allergy meds first thing in the morning so it's a switch, but seems to work
― mh, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
I've never had much luck with antihistamines. tried loratadine, cetirizine, fexofenadine, and diphenhydramine - none of them work for me.
i found one that works several years ago - chlorpheniramine - but it makes me extremely drowsy (and apparently due to its anticholinergic properties increases my chances of developing alzheimer's).
this allergy season is absolutely killing me regardless, though the chlorpheniramine is fairly effective when it comes time to take another dose (i take it 3 times a day) my sinuses are just on fire.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
pseudoephedrine 12-hour extended release tablets are pretty amazing ime
― marcos, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
in most of the US you have to go through the hoopla of showing ID at the pharmacy counter bc it can be used as a meth precursor but it is very worth it, works way better than most antihistamines
― marcos, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
surely as it's just a decongestant this will only be effective for nose and sinuses? (i mean tbh that's where most of my troubles are but itchy eyes are a thing too)
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
it is also a vasoconstrictor so it helps with the redness in eyes for sure, for the itchiness i find astringent eye drops help a lot
― marcos, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Guy told me to use Zaditor for that. Seems to help somewhat
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
thanks for the info. i will give those a whirl.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
my current routine:xyzal before bedzaditor in eyes when I first wake up, then wait a bit before showering and putting in contactspseudoephedrine 12 hour pill when I get out of bed
I make sure to shower when I get back indoors if I've been outdoors doing yard work or wandering around during heavy pollen times. Also flonase once per day.
― mh, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
fwiw that's a shitload of stuff but I have very few problems now unless I'm wandering around the wilderness for a long time
the season has began for me, it's muggy out, which is usually worse for me. I havent got any antihistamines in the flat but will go out for some after work. kill me!
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
Only tree pollen allergy for me, so this nonsense is going to be over by the end of the month. It's the last two/three weeks that are the most difficult though. And whoever made that Optrex advert where everyone has bits of tree/flowers sticking out like overgrown eyelashes knew their target audience.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
I can taste the pollen in the air.
― peace, man, Monday, 19 April 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
I’m so tired of sneezing and itchy eyes, my usual generic Allegra isn’t helping much this year.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 19 April 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
Woke up gasping for water several times last night. All I've been on is claritin and it isn't working either.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 11:00 (two years ago) link
ugh
― Bewlay Brothers & Sister Rrose (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
I AM FUCKING DYING.seriously, i feel worse now than i did when i had covid— head full of snot, sinus pressure poinding 24/7 even with meds, endless tissues, just abysmal time to be alive tbh. i wished out loud today for death.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link