defend the indefensible: POLLEN

Or, erm, something.

Plant spunk up your nose, ha ha, I love it.

it can't be worse than mine, Eisbär!

More like - defend the indefensible - HAYFEVER and its sufferers?

If this yellow stuff was coke I'd be rich or in jail.

Its the wind-pollinating plants which are the big villains in hay fever, not insect-pollinating plants, because the former requires much smaller pollen grains which can be mistaken for viruses by confused noses, while the latter favor honking huge pollen grains that can carry more genetic info while riding on bees' backsides. Big, showy flowers are a sure sign of an insect-pollinating plant.

Right now the mud puddles in Portland are scummed yellow with tree pollens.

please kill me, i'm drowning in snot.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:33 AM

^^^

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zyrtec isn't helping, what the latest gr8est allergy drug these days

Supplement the zyrtec with 50 mg. benedryl (aka: diphenhydramine HCI) when you go to bed. Histamines, once they are created in the body, tend to stick around. By taking benedryl at night you can mop up some of the surplus histamines as you sleep, while its drowsy-inducing qualities will not pose a problem.

thx

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/opinion/06ogren.html

Eat a few prunes, too. Benedryl can induce constipation by drying out the mucos membranes in the lower gut. Good luck.

i haven't had a completely clear nasal cavity since 1996.
word. also this week ears feel like I am in a quickly descending airplane

And today I can't taste my food.

every morning my car is like this but pollen

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awNaqOXoE5w/SSdvdbRynnI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/P5eP00T1wqk/s400/Car+cover.jpg

http://www.brianappelart.com/images/articles/081214-sizzle-fizzle-2008-photography-auctions/385-2106_280.jpg

still flying on three senses.

http://www.pollen.com/images/banners/pollen/mydiary/diary_retro_square.gif?ord=1273591183271

hipster allergies

^ cosign Jordan's post

cold May here which sucks except i am hardly sneezing at all

http://www.atascocita.com/message_board/chat/templates/standard/img/emoticons/butt.gif

1st rain in a week — puddles full of yellow milk

All the trees having sex in broad daylight is having a bigger effect on me than usual. Felt shitty enough to take my last covid test yesterday. Felt even worse this morning, went to the doctor, everything's negative, "you'll feel better by May."

Had a horrible few weeks in March last year from elm and birch pollen. This year nothing at all (and it's been years since I felt anything severe after March)!

Man, brutal for me this year. I'm literally home sick from it. Started getting the usual sinus effects last week, then it moved into my chest, and I think compounded by Big Ears (several days of socializing, talking loud with friends between shows, whooping and hollering and all the stuff that goes with a music festival) developed into a full-blown bronchial infection with fever over the weekend. Laid me flat. Recovering with help of antibiotics but jfc. (My symptoms were severe enough that I went to urgent care for the full battery of tests to make sure it wasn't covid or flu, but nope, negative for all.)

I've always been susceptible, gotten worse for me over the past decade I think. This is only the second time I've managed to get a respiratory infection from it though.

I also live in an area that routinely ranks in the like the top 5 worst pollen spots in the country. That Davy Crockett line about Tennessee being the "greenest state in the land of the free" comes at a cost.

It’s a nuisance but, unfortunately, a low histamine diet seems to be helping me quite a lot with this.

I get dizziness and congestion when it kicks in, very unpleasant. Also waking up with sore throat etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhYtwBA3NNs

we had a spell of heavy rain followed by intense heat and sunshine and I had a day where NOTHING was helping... now I have a little ritual with a generic claritin on an empty stomach first thing in the morning, and then a generic zirtec in the afternoon with a fluticasone nasal spray as backup on windy days... so far, so good

I suffered badly as a kid in a rural/forested area when there was only benadryl... things are so much better these days

I live in one of the most tree infested parts of England and the shortness of breath was really noticeable today. Tomorrow there's going to be a good stretch of light rain all day so that'll get the pollen out of the air a bit. Plus it's the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, so my plan is to not leave the house until Tuesday morning.

I got absolutely wrecked by the pollen this week -- hazard of living in the "City of Oaks," I guess. Still you'd think after 37 years I'd be used to it, but I too had to take a sick day from work this week, as the jackhammering sinus pain and extreme shortness of breath were just too much to bear.

'tree infested' lol
you make them sound like cockroaches

I love trees, I just wish they would develop a nice symbiotic reproductive process with bees or something like flowers do, and not just spray their stuff everywhere.

xp I'm allergic to dogs and trees. I keep reminding myself that at least dogs don't grow on trees.

There's some tree that blooms usually in June, and for a few days a year there's no amount of meds will help... I should try to figure out what it is

You can actually get 'vaccinated' for some kinds of pollen!

Last year I had my eyes opened (by of all things Hannah Einbinder's stand-up special) to the problem of pollutants, heavy metals, etc. at increasing levels in pollen. She does a very funny bit about how city planners decided to plant male trees that drop pollen instead of female trees that drop fruit. No idea what the actual quantifiable impacts are, but the idea has worked into my brain!