[Nicola_Red]

Any other hayfever sufferers here?

Mine kicked in properly about 10 days ago and I'm having a nightmare. My usual tablets are waning in their effectiveness and I had to send my housemate out on an emergency mission to the chemists' yesterday aftrenoon to buy everything I could think of - nasal spray, vitamins, tissues etc. Yesterday I took so many drugs that I felt like I wasn't quite all there, and I'm still sniffling.

So I invite you all to share in my pollen-related misery.

[Vivienne]

why don't you approach "boots" - their homeopathic stuff is really effective.

[Ballbag]

I've not suffered from hay fever since I was a wee scrotum, which is weird because I used to get it dead bad........... I used to have injections to stop it.

Nowadays I just suffer from boogie-fever, somedays I wake up and I just can't, I just can't, I just can't control my feet.

[Vivienne]

[foot-loose]

Any other hayfever sufferers here?

Ya, I am a fellow hayfeverer.

I haven't had it too bad yet this year. Hopefully, it stays like that - I really can't be bothered dealing with it.

You could go to the doc and see if he can prescribe something stronger than what you can get off the shelf?

[Nicola_Red]

I've tried one brand of homeopathic tablet - forget the name, it's one you can buy in Boots - but it didn't do a thing for me. I used to take homeopathic remedies for my PMT and they were really effective, but I guess my hayfever is a bit more resistant.

Sounds like you are growing out of it Baggie - I've gone the other way, never had it til I was aged about 19, and it's been terrible the past 2-3 years. My mum's followed the exact same pattern, and hers is getting better now - so in 20yrs I might grow out of it! hurray.

I went to the doctors' a couple years ago, when my symptoms got so bad that I was struggling to breathe properly, but alas he didn't take me very seriously. Might give it another go if things don't improve over the next week or two.

[Vivienne]

sorry the tablets didn't work !! I often find the homeo. stuff surprisingly effective: I guess 'cos it fights illness with illness .... Defo. go back to the doc.

[foot-loose]

I went to the doctors' a couple years ago, when my symptoms got so bad that I was struggling to breathe properly, but alas he didn't take me very seriously. Might give it another go if things don't improve over the next week or two.

If a doctor doesn't give you an answer that you are happy with, go and see another one.

When my sister was young (about 4 / 5 yrs old) the muscle between her head and left shoulder contracted making her head bend to the left.

She couldn't straighten her neck and was in a lot of pain.

My mum is a medical secretary and has worked in GP surgeries most of her adult life, so she knows what you go and see the doc about and what a good nights sleep will take care of.

So mum takes my sis to the docs, the doc says that she is only messing about and it was all "attention seeking". Mum goes home, leaves it a day or so then takes her to casualty. Casualty put her through to a neck specialist who says that she has some sort of condition that has only ever been seen in older women but she should have been in as soon as we thought there was a problem.

To say mum was livid was an understatement.

Anyways, after a few weeks of physio, my sis was back to normal. Long story short though, Docs don't always get it right. If you don't like what one is saying, go and see another.

[Boboff]

Piriton is excellent for all thing alergy related, Ms Boboff get nat bites and rashes etc, and a dose of piriton sorts her out

[Ballbag]

Docs don't always get it right. If you don't like what one is saying, go and see another.

Pappa ballbag is a Doctor, throughout my child hood I always used to go for a wee loads, when my mum suggested that it might be a problem, he laughed it off and said I was just using it as an excuse to "leave the table early" or "get out of the washing up". As he was a) my dad and b) a doctor, I believed him.
This went on for years, and I grew a reputation for having the weakest bladder in the world, twas quite a nightmare during the University drinking years. It came to a point when I had to plan journeys/nights out around my bladder.
Anyway, had a health check for my new job a few years back, and guess what, diabetes.
Now that I jab myself daily I have absolutely no problems with the old bladder, in fact I aint been since about 11 am today, before I would have gone about 5 times in that period.

Cheers pappa ballbag.

[Nicola_Red]

Piriton is excellent for all thing alergy related, Ms Boboff get nat bites and rashes etc, and a dose of piriton sorts her out

And has she woken up since? I take Piriton, and I can sleep all day after one tablet. I have to take something else alongside it to keep me awake.

[Zoot]

My friends wife had a stomach complaint that got worse and worse a few years ago. She was told it was a stomach ulcer, and treated as such.
Now, 4 years on, she has got the all clear from her Bowl cancer and is good as new.

[MK Chris]

I don't get hay fever, in fact I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've been to the doctors.

Mum took me once for my shakes (I do shake constantly, if I try to hold my hand still, I literally can't), she didn't think it was anything serious but other people thought it might be, so she took me to the doctors as a kid. He laughed her out of the surgery. That's not to say he was wrong, in fact I'm sure he was right, but I felt I'd share it anyway.

[Nicola_Red]

I don't get hay fever, in fact I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've been to the doctors.

Lucky. Between my knackered hip and my other afflictions I've been in and out of doctors and hospitals my whole life. I'm donating my eggs right now so I go to clinic pretty often, thankfully in this case it's a nice private one.

[MK Chris]

My stepsister has hayfever, she's had steroids for it, but you can only have them a couple of times a year or something.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

I don't have it but I think Nasser Hussain does.

[claradooblue]

I get bad rashes in the sun that itch so much it drives me mad, it doesn't help that i go to southern europe quite a lot. I never had it at all untill a couple of years ago. I don't know if it's because the sun's stronger or what. Piriton and the like do help though and the drowsiness is quite nice.

[kendra k]

i get hay fever, it bites.
though one thing nice about chemo, is that it dries the sinuses out so it's not as bad.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

there you go Nicola. Simple solution - get cancer.

[DemonHorse]

there you go Nicola. Simple solution - get cancer.

Why do I get the feeling you should be some kind of marketing executive?

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

I would be great at that.

Chocolate - it rots your teeth and makes you fat but boy is it goooooooooooood.

[MK Chris]

Our marketing director is just like that - I'm sure he'd come out with slogans like that (except the MD wouldn't let him and we don't sell chocolate.)

[foot-loose]

Any other hayfever sufferers here?

Ya, I am a fellow hayfeverer.

I haven't had it too bad yet this year. Hopefully, it stays like that - I really can't be bothered dealing with it.

I take this comment back

*sniff*

[Nicola_Red]

Ah, worked its way round to you now footloose? Crap. I've started using Flixonase spray and that's really helped. I don't like the idea of squirting steroids up my nose every day but boy has it made a difference. The only thing still troubling me is my eyes and I got some Otrivine Antistin drops which whilst they don't stop it completely, they do suppress the urge to gouge my eyes out with my fingernails, so that's good.

[pinkysibbs]

Anyone got any good ideas of things to try for hayfever if your pregnant?