Terrible allergies!

allergies make things harder to get done for sure. i've been dealing with them for years and it's no picnic. nothing seems to help me so i don't take anything and save money. i'll suffer for free. :D

My allergist says that this has been a bad year all around. We have been having fires here that have irritated people but in other parts of the country it is because of the different rain cycles and different molds or pollens being released at times they normally are not there. Even my wife who never has allergy problems is haviing to take medicines for it now.

Hi sunnflr. Sorry to hear about your allergies, they sound rough. I think allergies are worse the farther south you go. I know I never had an allergy in my life that I know of until we moved to FL. Now, there are 4 or 5 months out of every year that I am just miserable. My doctor said that our hurricane, Hurricane Charley that happened on Aug. 13, 2004, stirred up "a lot of stuff in the atmosphere and in the bottom of the ocean" which has been causing alot of people to suffer from allergies. I feel bad for others who have allergies, because, before I had one, I just didn't understand how dreadful they make a person feel. Oh, the itching eyes sound like a real pain. Hopefully your doctor will have some more ideas about how to handle that symptom. My symptoms usually develop from about December or January and go til April or May, so whatever is budding then, is what I'm allergic to. My throat gets all sore, my nose gets runny, and I generally feel like crap. Hope your symptoms subside soon. Did you get new carpeting or furniture or something that is causing your symptoms? Just asking because I know someone that got new carpeting and it about drove her nuts. Well, good luck and hope you soon get to feeling better.

just some helpful hints--i have major allergies too and it sucks. what i do so i dont have to take medications is 1. have someone massage your forehead, cheek line, jaw line with pressure you may hear crunches thats good it means they are breaking up the build up which will help clear away the mucous. 2. put vicks vapor rub on and in between your toes before you go to bed, why? because the vapor rub will open your sinuses and your toes happen to be a key point in sinus relief. 3. have someone give you a deep tissue foot massage this will also stimulate your sinuses and get you to feeling better. (the big toe and that paddy part under it are key areas.) 4. use boiling water and hover over the pan so your sinus warm up and drain away. be careful not to get to close as you will burn yourself of course. 5. drink lots of strong lemony substances with honey (example tea or water) warm the liquid up first then mix it with lots of lemon ( to rid the throat of mucus and heal the throat) and honey ( to coat the throat and protect it from drainage). i hope this helps you, if your afraid of infection (sinus infection) get some tea tree oil and mix with massage oil and rub it on your sinus areas (before bed as it may be kinda stinky) if bronchitis is an issues have someone rub your chest and back down with the mixture because it will work from the outside in and kill bacterias.

Have you tried Zyrtec? That was the one thing that my Dr. gave me that really worked. Now it is OTC, and it works just as well for me.

I had a similar problem when I lived in Tuscaloosa!