So, are allergies kicking your butt?

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It seems like just about everybody is sick or reeling from them. Are you one of them?

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Austin and the CenTex area is being hit with high mold and ragweed counts. I think I heard them say on the news it's the highest levels recorded. Awesome!

I used to love the smell of fresh cut grass on a lawn or field. Now, not so much. It does not make me react allergically but it just does not smell good any longer.
 
No allergies living in Lubbock. Apparently the settlers made a deal with god and instead of suffering with allergies, we get to smell cowshit all year.
 
Worst allergies for me in years. Yes, I finally got over a severe sinus infection about a week ago that kicked my ***... took 3 weeks to shake it - even with a steroid injection, steroid pills, an antibiotic and heavy decongestant.
 
Could try a saline rinse with 1/2 alcalol, and 1/2 saline.

I've been in Austin for a long time and generally don't have issues. When mold is up though I can get a little runny nose, but since it spiked earlier in the year I don't seem to be having any issues this time around. Thankfully.
 
Driving me nuts since the UCLA game.
Had to try Zyrtec D for relief. I've never had a problem before until this year and it has been awful.
 
I started having problems this week (here in San Antonio).

I live on a few acres and I've got ragweed plants 6-10 feet tall in the areas that I don't mow.
 
I don't really get allergies, but I have had an off-and-on headache that is pretty severe.
 
Yep, definitely feeling the uptick here in Dallas this year. Fortunately my usual OTC meds are helping me get through it. I just noticed that I've had to take them a lot more often this year, as opposed to last year.

I am really, really dreading Ashe Juniper season coming up in January, though. I wonder the the boss would let me go on a month-long remote work assignment to, say, Northern Canada until the juniper blows over?
 
I was miserable with hayfever for a couple of days two weekends ago. I took four 24 hour claritin in about 18 hours. Even at that the medication didn't snuff it out, but I started using over the counter mist and then just sucking water in and out my nose during a hot shower.
Fortunately whatever caused me to sneeze hasn't lingered here in Lewisville. The allergy misery didn't taper off. I went to bed feeling awful and woke up feeling fine.
 
I cannot remeber them being this bad. I never really had allergies before I moved to Ausitn and I have tried everything over the past five years from shots to local organic honey. I cannot win but if you guys have anything that works please pass it along I am dyin! Thanks
 
Try Mucinex but make sure that you drink lots of water. Do so even without that medicine. The more water you drink the more mucous your body can get rid of. The last thing you want to do is drink water, I know. I sometimes have to do so in between hacking cough sequences.
 
Mine are worse in the spring. But I do have some advice. Treat the symptoms before they turn into something worse.
I thought I got a cold every spring, and got sinus headaches and drainage in the back of my throat (sorry to report this).
It went into my lungs, got infected and I got bronchitis. Then the bronchitis turned into pneumonia. Not a good situation.
Now I take Nasonex and some allergy pill to ward off the worst effects, and although I still get some symptoms, I haven't gotten bronchitis or a sinus infection in quite a few years.
So don't let your relatively minor symptoms turn into something severe.
 
loop- Thanks man, I went got some mucinex from H.E.B. apparently they keep the good stuff behind the counter and wanted my Drivers Licence. I assuming this is potent stuff, took some this morning and nose is a faucet but no headache at least.

Thanks for all your help
 
Ranger, your coughs should be what they call "productive". You want to rid the mucous so that you don't get dry coughs or hacks. Yes, productive coughs sound gross and you spit snot out a lot but that's what you need to do. There are less encompassing varieties of Mucinex or the generic version that is OTC and you don't have to show ID. That is for less severe times and during the day. Again, water, water.

Pretend you just got off a force march and are next up at the water buffalo hanging there bleeding in the hot July sun. Yeah, drink water like that! Huah.
 
Good to hear/read. I am doing better too but my danged lingering cough and really sore throat must vacate or I will go to the Doc next week. It feels like my nodes may be sore but it could just be fatigue from serial coughing.
 
My allergies are mild, but I do have them. What kills me is that my acid reflux is severe. Even mild drainage from mild allergies hitting reflux makes for some bad mornings. Drainage hitting acid makes for an obnoxious gag producing foam.
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Stina, what do you take for your acid reflux? Have you tried Raw Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar? Mixed with water it actually works and this is from personal experience. As you likely know Acid Reflux is not having too much in your tummy, it's not having enough. I was a skeptic at first thinking it had to be something remedied by things like antacids and products like Pepcid.

Bragg is a brand that I found works. I still supplement with Pepcid 24 hour pills every once in awhile but I take nowhere near the amount of them as I once did. In fact the use is seldom to almost never.
 
Today was an awesome day! I woke with a headache but some sudafed (the real stuff) and two Excederin later I was just fine for the rest of the day. Very little coughing, virtually no drainage and no itchy eyes. Thank you rains.
 
I've been getting allergy shots 2x/week for over ten years. Before I started, the drainage was so heavy at night that I would average about 3-4 hours sleep per night; it was so bad it would make me throw up 1-2 times per night. My body was always felt kind of "swollen." I was miserable.

The shots helped somewhat. At least I could sleep, but they never really went away.

Last year, at the insistence of my wife, I went to an internist, and had my blood tested for food allergies.

Frankly, I figured it was all BS, but she stayed on my case about it, and I finally went.

Tested allergic to basically what's in all of the processed foods we as Americans eat on a daily basis - gluten, wheat, corn, casein.

You have to cut the stuff out for at least 3 months. Then, you can slowly reintroduce it to your diet. At first, it was kind of a pain in the neck, having to read every ingredient, shopping around at whole foods for items that do not contain the stuff I must avoid (there's actually a huge market out there that caters to just this). I figured out how to make my own bread without wheat/gluten or yeast (substitute baking soda & lemon juice & it rises just like yeast). Really easy - takes about 20 minutes max, and if I freeze it, it lasts for a good while.

Really small adjustments, all things considered. The only downside is that a lot of the testing isn't covered by some health insurance (which is nuts - with the big surge in "wellness programs" insurance companies are pushing, you'd think they'd want to cover stuff that removes constant "maintenance" of allergies & want to solve the problem).

But it was 100% worth it. For the first time in 20 years, I can breathe out of both nostrils at the same time. The body swelling went down - I lost 1 1/2 inches in my waist within the first two weeks. I can think more clearly, I feel better, and have more energy than I've had literally since high school.

I thought it was total horse crap, but I'm totally sold on it.

If they are bad enough, don't just take crap to mask the symptoms - get checked out, and you might really be able to get rid of it, and be healthier at the same time.
 
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