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Beconase is the bees knees. One spray in each nostril every day seems to do me grand. Have two in each if i know i'm going to be spending a lot of time outside. |
Bastard Hay Fever • Page 7
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THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Rodderz 4,497 posts
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Registered 15 years agocubbymoore wrote:
Had an awful week this week with my hay fever, thought I was doing fine then it hit me really badly. My nose was dripping, my eyes were all red and closing up, I felt drowsy and had a headache... and then came the nose bleeds
Cetirizine, every day, and when it's bad some beconase. After a while on Cetirizine you won't need the beconase at all. I have year round rhinitis and it does the job. £2 for 30 tablets means it costs £24 a year, which isn't that bad really.
I usually use Loratadine tablets and Beconase spray but they seemed to do fuck all this time, so I've got some of those Cetirizine hydrochloride tablets cubby mentions in his post today, along with an allergy spray that has a different corticosteroid called Fluticasone as its key ingredient (Beconase key ingredient is Beclometasone). The expensive brand of the new spray is called Pirinase, but I got a generic Boots version cheaper.
Had a couple of squirts of the new allergy spray earlier on and I think I'm already feeling a fair bit clearer headed so hope it's a good sign! -
Yeah, mine completely screwed me this week.. got some prescription tablets (fexofenadine) and some spray (fluticasone). Seems to be under control for once!
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Carlo 21,801 posts
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Registered 16 years agopacrifice wrote:
The idea is you find locally produced honey that's unfiltered. Not exactly easy (or cheap!) but it's supposed to naturally build up your tolerance to it.
A friend swears that eating honey helps too but the tablet works for me.
Take a tea-spoon of honey every day (all year round)... I tried it for 2 years and it did appear to work... Stop doing it and it comes back however. -
RichDC 9,177 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAppear to be suffering from hay fever this year for the first time. It sucks. 1/10. -
Benno 11,854 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIt can just suddenly affect you at any age? -
RichDC 9,177 posts
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Registered 17 years agoGuess its like any allergy. -
smoothpete 37,743 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIt's basically your body's response to what it perceives as an attack (like an immune response) -
Carlo wrote:
There's no proof this actually works.
pacrifice wrote:
The idea is you find locally produced honey that's unfiltered. Not exactly easy (or cheap!) but it's supposed to naturally build up your tolerance to it.
A friend swears that eating honey helps too but the tablet works for me.
Take a tea-spoon of honey every day (all year round)... I tried it for 2 years and it did appear to work... Stop doing it and it comes back however. -
Mr_Sleep wrote:
That doesn't mean it doesn't.
Carlo wrote:
There's no proof this actually works.
pacrifice wrote:
The idea is you find locally produced honey that's unfiltered. Not exactly easy (or cheap!) but it's supposed to naturally build up your tolerance to it.
A friend swears that eating honey helps too but the tablet works for me.
Take a tea-spoon of honey every day (all year round)... I tried it for 2 years and it did appear to work... Stop doing it and it comes back however. -
Mr_Sleep wrote:
That doesn't mean it doesn't.
Carlo wrote:
There's no proof this actually works.
pacrifice wrote:
The idea is you find locally produced honey that's unfiltered. Not exactly easy (or cheap!) but it's supposed to naturally build up your tolerance to it.
A friend swears that eating honey helps too but the tablet works for me.
Take a tea-spoon of honey every day (all year round)... I tried it for 2 years and it did appear to work... Stop doing it and it comes back however. -
Moot_Point 5,530 posts
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Registered 9 years agoMr_Sleep wrote:
Proof of the pudding is in the tasting.
Carlo wrote:
There's no proof this actually works.
pacrifice wrote:
The idea is you find locally produced honey that's unfiltered. Not exactly easy (or cheap!) but it's supposed to naturally build up your tolerance to it.
A friend swears that eating honey helps too but the tablet works for me.
Take a tea-spoon of honey every day (all year round)... I tried it for 2 years and it did appear to work... Stop doing it and it comes back however.
Edited by Moot_Point at 14:08:23 28-06-2013 -
Carlo 21,801 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI did say it appeared to work. It wasn't an endorsement and it's back just as bad as ever this year! -
smoothpete 37,743 posts
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Registered 17 years ago@Graveland
Hmm that's interesting... Can you keep us updated? -
malloc wrote:
Mr_Sleep wrote:
That doesn't mean it doesn't.
Carlo wrote:
There's no proof this actually works.
pacrifice wrote:
The idea is you find locally produced honey that's unfiltered. Not exactly easy (or cheap!) but it's supposed to naturally build up your tolerance to it.
A friend swears that eating honey helps too but the tablet works for me.
Take a tea-spoon of honey every day (all year round)... I tried it for 2 years and it did appear to work... Stop doing it and it comes back however. -
Moot_Point wrote:
By that notion homoeopathy is a sound medical science
Mr_Sleep wrote:
Proof of the pudding is in the tasting.
Carlo wrote:
There's no proof this actually works.
pacrifice wrote:
The idea is you find locally produced honey that's unfiltered. Not exactly easy (or cheap!) but it's supposed to naturally build up your tolerance to it.
A friend swears that eating honey helps too but the tablet works for me.
Take a tea-spoon of honey every day (all year round)... I tried it for 2 years and it did appear to work... Stop doing it and it comes back however.
Edited by Mr_Sleep at 16:59:04 28-06-2013 -
President_Weasel 12,355 posts
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Registered 17 years agoBenno wrote:
Sadly yes. Mine kicked in suddenly in my mid 20s.
It can just suddenly affect you at any age?
The hay fever seems particularly bad this week in London, bastard plant sperm everywhere. -
Yeah, think mine arrived in my mid 20s. My prescription stuff is totally kicking it's arse though, such a bloody relief .gif)
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My hayfever started during the summer of 1976 when we had the hottest temperatures since records began. I still get it, but it hasn't been bad for something like a decade, haven't used hayfever cures since 2009 and these days I only get hayfever symptoms round about March/April when there is loads of tree pollen in the air. I used to dread the grass pollen in August O.O -
MrWorf 64,187 posts
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I haven't slept in days. I've given up on Loratadine and just bought some of the hardstuff, 10mg Cetirizine. I've also ordered that red light thingy that stone linked earlier. Allergy wise, this is most miserable summer I've ever had. Severe eye pain, coughing, insomnia, constant congestion which is worse at night time.
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smoothpete 37,743 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI double up on loratadine and cetirizine, and take more than the recommended dose of cetirize. My GP said you can take up to like 4 or 5 cetirizine in a day. I do about 3 of them. Interested by this red light thingy, let me know if that does anything -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoPollen count must have been astronomically high....don't usually suffer, but Sat and Sun was sneezing like a bastard all day. Seems to have calmed down now, thank fuck. Don't envy you poor bastards that get it badly -
Emth 137 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI seem to be fine pretty much anywhere apart from at work. Even if I don't medicate up, at home or outside I'm a bit sneezy at worst, but as soon as I get into the office it's like a nose tsunami for the first two hours of the day, regardless of what I take.
Fucking annoying. -
smoothpete 37,743 posts
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Registered 17 years agoRight I've ordered one of these nose light things. I'll have a punt for a tenner. I've spent that on tissues in two weeks some of which were used for blowing my nose -
Salaman 24,162 posts
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Registered 17 years agoCan you all please post a picture of yourselves with that thing up your nose? -
MrWorf 64,187 posts
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Registered 20 years agoFor you to fap over? -
MrWorf 64,187 posts
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Registered 20 years agoSorry hayfever making me very irritable -
Razz wrote:
I can't rule it out. But mostly to laugh at.
For you to fap over?
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