Hayfever - Share you remedies!

[Schism]

My questions is do people wake up in the morning feeling like they’re been left on the radiator all night? With a dry mouth and dry skin? Also my tongue feels black and blue, has anyone else had this? Eating’s getting hard.

I wake up basically feeling like crap, like today, which made me make this thread!

Eating isn't too hard... do you smoke?

4 boots own non drowsy taken orally in the morning, the one a day ones. Nasal spray, whatevers the cheapest.
On the bad days crush one of the boots own pills up and snort in small lines (Breaks the blood brain barrier, works wonders) my boss did give me some strange looks when I was snorting them off the dash of the van one afternoon

Thats what I do but I'm not a doctor...

What really? I can see how it can work, but never heard of anyone doing it with normal tablets!

 

[Glaucus]

Tablets, eye drops, nasal spray.
Shower and clean clothes if it gets bad, if that's not possible wash head and face in the sink.

 

[Schism]

I just found these nose probes in my drawer from last year from Lloyd's pharmacy... going to try them again this year to see if they make any difference! Also have an air purifier thing that came with them as a deal, that definitely seems to help!

Tablets, eye drops, nasal spray.
Shower and clean clothes if it gets bad, if that's not possible wash head and face in the sink.

Yeah showers definitely help, and I recently read about the change of clothes thing too which does definitely make a difference!

 

[nydryl]

Cetirizine as far as medicine goes.
Take my clothes off at night outside my bedroom and have a shower. The pollen sticks to your hair and clothes and you'll rub it over your pillow in the night if you don't wash it off. Also keep windows shut.

 

[Schism]

Cetirizine as far as medicine goes.
Take my clothes off at night outside my bedroom and have a shower. The pollen sticks to your hair and clothes and you'll rub it over your pillow in the night if you don't wash it off. Also keep windows shut.

I think I'll start doing this now... don't know if I could hack having my windows closed though

 

[jpmonkey69]

These sound interesting, but are they just re-packaged versions of what I'm taking already?

No, the Benedryl (containing Acrivistine) is NOT available as a generic pill as I mentioned above.

Acrivistine is only sold as Benedryl in this country.

 

[norm]

I had very good results from Flixonase, used to be a prescription only drug.

 

[Schism]

No, the Benedryl (containing Acrivistine) is NOT available as a generic pill as I mentioned above.

Acrivistine is only sold as Benedryl in this country.

Hmm, sounds promising!

There are so many options, and the only way to test them is to take them all I guess! (not at the same time )

 

[godinman]

True, our immune systems are just too good.

No, your immune system is ****.

That's like the time the electric fire in my bedroom caught fire and burnt my poster of Yoda doing a star-jump with a lightsaber, the electric fire wasn't 'too good' it was ****.

 

[Kazz]

I get really bad hay fever every year at the same time, it starts just after the beginning of June and finishes just before July starts.

Nothing I take seems to make any real difference, I'm just happy as I know it will only be one month of hell! (Which is nearly over )

Yeah, same here. Seems as though I've tried just about every spray / tablet available and they work most of the time. But when the pollon count is at the far end of the scale like now, it always get me. Morning and late afternoon it is a stream of snot , yummy.

The only thing that really works is staying indoors with all windows / doors shut, but that just isn't gonna happen during the summer. Much rather go out and enjoy the weather sneezing my **** off than stay indoors .

 

[Abyss]

Fexofenadine 180mg tablet
and
Avamys 27.5 microgram nasal spray

I do a huge amount if driving so need something that is non-drowsy and very effective. Fexofenadine is commonly prescribed to pilots/drivers.

 

[RadoX]

benzoylmethylecgonine does the job fine for me, its the only thing that gets rid of that horrid hayfever nose.

 

[Morgoth]

No, your immune system is ****.

That's like the time the electric fire in my bedroom caught fire and burnt my poster of Yoda doing a star-jump with a lightsaber, the electric fire wasn't 'too good' it was ****.

Aha, interesting analogy. However despite being a hay fever sufferer I rarely get sick; if that's the price to pay for having a "****" immune system, I'll gladly pay it.

 

[drdimmer]

Tablets, eye drops, nasal spray.
Shower and clean clothes if it gets bad, if that's not possible wash head and face in the sink.

Same as the above ^^, the nasal spray I use is a low dose steroid one also. Lloyds were doing at one point a probe you stuck up your nose that produce red light and supposedly suppressed the symptoms but I was quite skeptical and got fed up of looking like rudolph while I used it but I might give it a go again...

 

[tres]

the 30p ones have never made me drowsy

 

[godinman]

Aha, interesting analogy. However despite being a hay fever sufferer I rarely get sick; if that's the price to pay for having a "****" immune system, I'll gladly pay it.

Suppose it'd be interesting if that was true in general. I'll google it!

 

[Smit]

I just wash my face and nose, seems to help for a few hours anyway. Failing that I just take any supermarket brand of tablets

My hayfever here isn't as bad as it was back in the UK so that's one plus point Although train journeys through the forests here are a nightmare in the summer time because of all the pollen

 

[MasterPlan1]

Becoming a hermit.

 

[Zom]

1. Generic Hayfever drugs
2. Nasal spray
3. Hay Max (It's £5 for a small tub but it is amazing) It forms a physical barrier between your nose and the pollen.
4. Sunglasses - keeps the pollen out of the eyes

 

[aidman]

I use Acrivistine (Benedryl).

It's really fast acting, non drowsy and seems to last a whole day!

Unfortunatly there is no generic equivalent... but Morrisons do a 12 pack for £3

^^ this - I get it for the price of a prescription... 84 pills (3x 24 packs + 1x 12 pack). Pharmacy sticker says that my driving reactions may be impaired while taking the medicine... however I don't experience any problems...