[googley]

I hate allergies. My seasonal allergies have started in the last few days. I don't have the money right now to get allergy meds. It sucks. I have been sneezing like crazy. At least it hasn't passed to my eyes yet. That would be awful. I think I might have some un opened eye drops from last allergy season. If I need them, hopefully they are not expired.


(((((((Hugs)))))))) for everyone else who also suffers from allergies.

[NoBread]

Originally Posted by googley

I hate allergies. My seasonal allergies have started in the last few days. I don't have the money right now to get allergy meds. It sucks. I have been sneezing like crazy. At least it hasn't passed to my eyes yet. That would be awful. I think I might have some un opened eye drops from last allergy season. If I need them, hopefully they are not expired.


(((((((Hugs)))))))) for everyone else who also suffers from allergies.

Oh, aren't allergies just so fun Googley? I hear ya. I used to have them pretty bad in the spring and fall. They aren't too bad for me now a days since I went GF a few years back. GF cleared up most of my allergy symptoms. I used to carry anti-histamines with me all the time. Not anymore though.

I used to wash my face and hands when I came inside to get any pollen off. It can help. And air conditioning helps to. If you have one of those systems that takes standard furnace filters you can get allergy rated filters at home stores for them.

All in all spring is a loverly time of year... I used to say the flowers and trees were having wild sex in my snoz. Raunchy plants them!

[googley]

Originally Posted by NoBread

I used to say the flowers and trees were having wild sex in my snoz. Raunchy plants them!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

Hi NoBread,
I wish going GF would fix my allergies. It seems like a lot of people get other benefits from going GF along with the digestive stuff, but it doesn't seem to help me. Too bad.

I don't have any air conditioning or filtering in my student apartment. But I know when I grew up we had a filter in our furnace. When people ask me what i am allergic to I usually reply "the great outdoors". Gets a laugh, and pretty much explains it all. LOL.

When growing up I didn't open my window in my bed room and got first choice of fans in the house (at least something good came from it as we didn't have air conditioning.) I would also shower before bed and not sit on my bed with my clothes on. I may have to go back to some of my practices until I can get some allergy meds.

[Fresia]

Mine are bad right now too. I have been taking more showers to wash off anything when I come in from outside and changing clothes too, seems to help to get stuff off of me. I don't have a/c anymore either and it is miserable. It is seems such a simple thing, 'I just want to breath'.

I hear ya.

[NoBread]

Hey Googley,

Yep, I have showered before bed also. Not often but a few times. I never got the best fan though, must have been doing something wrong... Actually, my hay fever didn't kick in until the summer I turned 17, and then it came on hard. I took my nephew fishing at a local lake one day and boom, it started then right then.

You aren't in Atlanta are you? I remember one summer I was in Atlanta for work and they had a pollen count of 1400 something. There was a thick green dust on everything outside. We'd go park the car outside the hotel and in the morning it would be green. You could write your name in the pollen with your finger. all the stair railing were green, sidewalks, buildings, the stuff was like green snow. Good times! I don't remember what the plant was making it, some kind of wild plant or vine that loved that area. But fortunately it was not one of my hay fever triggers.

I wonder if you are eating something is causing your immune system to react? I know you are off gluten like me. But I kind of figure that if your immune system is reacting one thing it might be keyed up to react to other things more actively. So like if I am allergic to something I am eating I might react more strongly to plant allergens then. Just a thot. I did several elimination diets before I worked out my food intolerances. Gluten, casein, nightshades, carrots, soy. Once I got rid of all those my health took a turn for the better.

Well, I hope you feel better soon and get some anti-histamines that work well for you. Some of them can affect your mental state though. I had a reaction to one called trichlormastine fumerate, or some such thing. It made me mean, per my ex-wife. So I quit taking that stuff.