Hayfever - Thread

This year seems to be significantly worse for me than the past few, I guess something to do with the extended dry/sunny period we're having, but my eyes are constantly itchy, and I'm having to use my blue inhaler a couple of times a day/night when I haven't needed it all for 3-4 years.

Taking cetirizine tablets and fluticasone spray which has worked for me in the past, but it doesn't seem to last long enough now - by ~7-8pm and first thing in the morning I feel like death again :(
 
Minstadave said:
Fexofenadine works for me, brilliant that it's over the counter now (cheaper for a month over the counter than the prescription fee).
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I went to my docs as I was sick of paying and they give me x60 on repeat. I have one of those PPC as well, as I get 2-3 items a month. So the fact I can bolt these on over the summer, is great. £114.50 for 12 months (£9.54 /month). Given a single prescription item is £9.90, it's a big cost saver. Obviously I wouldn't get a PPC if the only thing you need is occasional hay fever tablets. lol.
 
Took Fexofenadine last year with great success and taking it this year too. So far so good. I usually take them last thing at night before bed. I did last night as usual, but woke up with morning with a really itchy nose and sneezing a lot. Took another one this morning. Feeling a bit drowsy now :D.
 
Nothing yet for me but symptoms are getting pushed later on down the year, as a kid it was always April/May and now it's more June/July.

Will be on the antihistamines soon enough.

Anyone have any luck with adjusting diet? I suspect an improved diet would likely lead to better outcomes, but I'm not entirely sure. I did read about caffeine/coffee, or more specifically the histamines within them, can mess with your DAO enzymes and make allergies/reactions worse, but of course that means giving up on the beautiful coffee.
 
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I ended up going to the doctor's last Thursday (10th) after waking up several times during the night unable to breathe, with the following outcome:

Told I can take cetirizine 2x a day, so I started taking one just before bed as well
Prescribed a new inhaler (WockAIR)
Prescribed some tablets (montelukast)

Since I started on those I've felt infinitely better! Not needed my salbutamol inhaler once, still get the itchy eyes and runny nose occasionally, and use the inhaler when I get a bit tight chested, but otherwise feeling pretty much completely normal! :D
 
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Haggisman said:
This year seems to be significantly worse for me than the past few, I guess something to do with the extended dry/sunny period we're having, but my eyes are constantly itchy, and I'm having to use my blue inhaler a couple of times a day/night when I haven't needed it all for 3-4 years.

Taking cetirizine tablets and fluticasone spray which has worked for me in the past, but it doesn't seem to last long enough now - by ~7-8pm and first thing in the morning I feel like death again :(
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Same. Had to get a new inhaler this year. First time in 4 or 5 years.

The sortness of breath building from 7pm onwards isn't great.
Then waking up struggling every few hours.
 
AndrewNR said:
Same. Had to get a new inhaler this year. First time in 4 or 5 years.

The sortness of breath building from 7pm onwards isn't great.
Then waking up struggling every few hours.
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Yeah, it's definitely not fun! See if you can speak to your doctor, I'm not sure whether it's the new inhaler or the tablets which have made the difference for me, but one of them has helped significantly!
 
Quite bad at the moment myself, June seems to be the new time for me where it's brutal.

Problem is I'm struggling with every antihistamine, normally fare well on them but cetirizine is making me brutally tired, like feel like I need to nap all day. I'd prefer the hayfever symptoms, just.
 
My hayfever has been crazy the past couple of weeks. I usually struggle for a handful of days per year and I try and use topical treatments as most anti-histamines make me very tired, even loratadine and cetirizine.

Thankfully I've discovered fexofenadine! It's the only one I've ever used that relieves symptoms and doesn't make me drowsy. It isn't quite as powerful for me as cetirizine but it gets rid of 90% of the symptoms for a good 10 hours or so.
 
It's pretty bad at the moment but a fexofenadine tablet combined with a dose of beconase sorts me out for the most part.
 
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Doctor and others recommended these but they do absolutely nothing for me.

Beconase is good though.
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Have you tried the GP prescription strength 180mg?

I've only ever bought the 120mg Allevia tablets from Amazon which are ~£7+ for 30 days, making a prescription strength at under £10 a box slightly better value!

More than anything else for me, it's the crippling tiredness I get with hayfever, rather than itchy eyes or sneezing etc. Or at least I presume it's the hayfever, as I feel worse after being up a while and it often gets worse all day.

Now out of Allevia and the bargain 6-month supply of 10mh Loratadine (~£5 iirc) is down to the last month, neither tend to touch this tiredness even if I take both on the same day (apparently ok as different classes of anti-histamines). No sure what to do, whether to go back to GP and get my first ever hayfever prescription through them, or look for a cheap pack of Allevia and break a second tablet in half to give me ~180mg when combined with another whole tablet... Although I do hate the Allevia "take one hour before food or two hours after" hassle.
 
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