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I have the worst hayfever of anyone I know.
Had it all my life. I used to take razene antihistamines and they worked well, until I turned 23 and suddenly all antihistamines - including "non drowsy" ones - will make me sleepy for two days.
I can take a teeny tiny tablet on friday and sleep until midday sunday, only waking a few times for an hour each.
Solution
So after a change of doctor a few years ago, he prescribed Prednisone.
Prednisone is a steroid and not fun but wow it works well.
Starting at the beginning of december each year, i do 10 days, one tablet a day and it solves all my hayfever problems until about the 5th of January when i need another tablet for 3 days and then i am good until next summer.
There are side effects - It makes you hungry so you can gain weight, it can keep you awake so you dont want to be drinking coffee at the same time, and i am one of the most docile people you would ever meet - but I can be punching holes in walls angry.
All the stuff you were warned about steroids in health class at school. But its easily manageable.
Better than falling asleep while i am on someones roof.
It was set up so i could order it along with my other hayfever stuff through my doctors web portal but i think they changed the law at some point and you have to get it prescribed specifically each year now.
I have been trying to have a go at avoiding it this year - normally i take a week off work so im not so angry around people. Its not that bad but i get wound up easily at this time of the year. This year i cant take time off until after xmas.
So other things
- Itchy throat - i just have to take half a zetop tablet. Enough to take the itch away but not enough to put me into drowsy mode.
- Nasal Spray. I use flixonase each night before i go to sleep. I am sure this is also contributing to my drowsyness but its not a listed side effect so I am not sure. Anyhow it helps if you use it regularly even if you dont have symptoms because it takes a few days in a row before it starts working.
- Otravin nasal spray - this is sold at the pharmacy. Its like squirting some menthol from a throat lozenge airwaves gum or up your nose and it clears it within seconds. Natural too.
This helps because
- Blowing nose regularly. You cant let your nose get stuffy or blocked so its important to blow out the snot as soon as it accumulates rather than sniffing to try to keep it in until a more convenient time to blow. The reason is because if your nose blocks up, your sinuses block up and pressure pushes some snot up into your eyes so they start getting sore and itchy.
That is if you keep your nose clear, you wont get itchy eyes. Otravin is a very good way to do that when it starts to get stuffy, and Flixonase every night should help your nose stop getting stuffy in the first place though by this time of the year, flixonase has stopped working on the grasses. It fully works for the pine tree pollen which we see mostly in spring as yellow fog coming off the forests in the wind.
- Dry crusty skin around the eyes. For this use hydrocortisone ointment (not cream). I usually get a little punnet prescribed for the pharmacist to make up and it lasts me a few years. Very good for any rash or skin irritation in general but it works in the corner of your eyes as long as you keep it out of your eyes. Provides a moist surface to help the skin, without drying fast and a barrier to the air. But seriously if you use it near your eyes you need to be sure to wipe it off if your tears begin to cause it to loose its viscosity and get too close to entering the eyes.
- Clear out your eyes every morning. When i get up in the morning i use wet fingers to clear the stringy gunk out of my eyes. This gunk comes from the sinuses and is what causes your eyes to become itchy - like having something stuck in your eye. I find eyedrops help a little bit but not much.
Most people dont realise their sore itchy eyes is caused by this gunk that can be very hard to spot.
Use a wet finger to touch the accumulated gunk at A and normally it will stick to your finger. Its stringy and so as you pull your finger away a little bit and around B towards your ears, it will pull the string off from your bottom eye lid. Your eyes feel so much better after clearing it away.
C shows some of the gunk stuck between the bottom and top eyelid. I havent figured out how to clear it from behind the top eye lid but if you carefully blink a few times you can get it to sit along the bottom eyelid.
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