Allergy season!!! BLAH!

Well, I've been 'hit'. It's so bad for me right now that I'm woken up out of a deep sleep in the mornings! Itchy eyes, scratchy throat, sneezing---the works!!

Anyone else suffer with seasonal allergies like I do? I am taking Allavert---I hope it starts kicking in! What do you all take for your allergies?

One of my daycare kids (age 4) has been suffering for two straight days (so badly that he was crying yesterday---I felt like crying too!!), and his parents haven't sent any meds. I told them today they needed to have some kind of medication for the poor kid.

I am about 3 weeks ahead of you Amy. We have leaves on trees and yellow pollen all over.
I've been taking Clariton in the morning and Singular at night. I end up with bronchitus if I don't. I never suffered from allergies before I lived in Texas. I was told by alot of people that if I stayed here long enough I would have problems.
I'm more than ready to leave.


Parker( little boy i babysit) coughed through his nap yesterday. He is in on Allegra in the mornings and flonase at night. Sometimes it takes two meds working together to conqure it. Good luck!

I think it is all the new blooms that is making it so hard for me to shake this crud that I have. I ran 101-102 fever last week and now that it is gone, I have that dry, tickle cough in my chest that I just can't get rid of. With the pollen in the air, and everywhere else, that tickle is even worse. My head feels heavy and my eyes are burning out of my head. And to top it off, when I went home for lunch, my neighbor down the street was in his yard burning a pile of twigs and stuff!!! Guess what that will do to the allergies?!?!?

Wow! Sorry to hear that Rhonda... :alright:

Rhonda, you sound miserable! I hope you get better soon! :alright:

Gin, I don't know why, but there is obviously something in the air in March, because this is when I'm hit every year. I know a lot of people who are suffering right now, so it's whatever we're left with after the great snow-thaw I guess. Ugh. I can't take Claritan---I feel loopey on it. Probably not a good idea when I have 3 and 4 year olds running around the house!

When I was 16, I went through the allergy testing where they prick your back a zillion times....the nurse came in after 20 minutes and said "whoa, we've got a livewire here!", because I reacted to absolutely everything and had what looked like welts all over my back! The only things I'm not allergic to are cats and dogs, thank goodness!

Well, one of my daycare kids went home sick today with a fever of 100.6. Turns out I'm at 99.00. I hope I don't spike up tonight. I really don't need illness on top of the allergy suffering! SO not fair, huh Rhonda?! And I am such a weenie---that last time I got as high as 100 degrees, I felt like dying!! LOL! I think something happens when we get older where our bodies just can't handle fevers like they used to. Or, maybe it's just me.

This year I noticed that I had allergies.
Spring has always been a time of not being on my game because of minor sickness and summer on it's way but I am having a hard time this year. I wake up each morning with itchy eyes, stuffed up nose/runny nose, itchy nose, etc. It got so bad that within 3 days in a row "periodic random nose bleeds" happened 7 times! I started taking Clariten few weeks ago that expired 2 years ago! I just finished up that package and am having better luck with Clariten that expires in 2 years. I am now having better luck with it.

Between the cats, anything scented, and seasonal allergies, I'm pretty much congested all the time. At this point I don't really notice it until I go down south and I can actually breathe through my nose. Most of my allergeries tie into my asthma, so I take Advair every day and Sudafed for the congestion.

Hope you feel beter Rhonda.

We haven't been having allergies, but I had bronchitis, then Mom has caught it, and now DAD is coughing.....oh no.

bethandmanly wrote:

Between the cats, anything scented, and seasonal allergies, I'm pretty much congested all the time. At this point I don't really notice it until I go down south and I can actually breathe through my nose. Most of my allergeries tie into my asthma, so I take Advair every day and Sudafed for the congestion.

Hope you feel beter Rhonda.

I feel MUCH better Cheryl....especially since that was a 2009 post.....

I have allergies to grasses, especially in summer. That's about it.

Rhonda wrote:

bethandmanly wrote:

Between the cats, anything scented, and seasonal allergies, I'm pretty much congested all the time. At this point I don't really notice it until I go down south and I can actually breathe through my nose. Most of my allergeries tie into my asthma, so I take Advair every day and Sudafed for the congestion.

Hope you feel beter Rhonda.

I feel MUCH better Cheryl....especially since that was a 2009 post.....

lol that was 2009!?
I didn't notice at all lol

alexczarn wrote:

I have allergies to grasses, especially in summer. That's about it.

My Dad has allergies sometimes. But they aren't as bad as they used to be.

Rhonda wrote:

bethandmanly wrote:

Between the cats, anything scented, and seasonal allergies, I'm pretty much congested all the time. At this point I don't really notice it until I go down south and I can actually breathe through my nose. Most of my allergeries tie into my asthma, so I take Advair every day and Sudafed for the congestion.

Hope you feel beter Rhonda.

I feel MUCH better Cheryl....especially since that was a 2009 post.....

Well, I'm sure glad Rhonda. I would hate to think you had been suffering that long. See what happens when I try to post real quick in between doing other things?

I got the allergies. Achooooooo!! Bless me. I took allavert. I been sneezing, since yesterday. I notices, if I go to different parts of Michigan. My allergies are really bad. I need Dr. Baker. ugh.

Blah. It's been about a year since I found this post and now I'm suffering from Allergies... Again

I sneeze a lot and get itchy and watery eyes. Claratin doesn't help me. I'm going to try allegra. I have skin allergies as well. I have to use body wash for sensitive skin and have been using baby wash. I'm allergic to Dawn dish soap. I only use Palmolive.

My allergies have been acting up. I get plugged up when I vaccum and when I mow the yard. Dust bothers me and so does grass and pollen.

I feel for you. We are passed that stage now. Although I have problems when the pressure changes and a front comes in. Just alot of burning in my sinuses. I have to make sure I don't sleep directly under a fan at night either. That drys the sinuses out.
Have you tried singulair or Zyrtec?

Funny Gin, we call it Zirtec here in Australia. It works though!

We've been bouncing between Zyrtec and Allegra. I think Allegra works the best on me. We're moving past it now too though---my worst time is March and April. The boys mowed the yard though tonight so I've been sneezing and itching my eyes.

Te weather changes haven't helped. It was hot last week, and cooled of this week.

I'm using a nasal spray and Zyrtec. My doctor recommended Zyrtec.

Dust and pollen bothers me. When I go down the laundry care aisle or the section where candles are at, I get plugged up. I use All Free and Gentle laundry soap. I have very sensitive skin. Even scented dryer sheets plug me up. Thank goodness Bounce has dryer sheets that are dye and scent free.

So far, no hayfever for me...I expect I'll get it this summer though...

Just call me "Sneezy". I can't go a day without sneezing.