%*&(#&$( Cedar pollen

[Shelly]

It's gonna be the death of me. :hang

[katyon6th]

I feel like I swallowed a hairball. All damn day.

[Shelly]

I usually can combat it with Flonase. IF I start using it in November, but I never got any this year. The only thing that helps is Benedryl and I can only take in half doses or I'll be in a fog all day.

Blah.

[T Park]

God bless Zyrtec

[MoSpur]

I hate allergies too.

[MoSpur]

Has anyone ever tried that netipot thing?

[Shelly]

What is it?

[MoSpur]

Some type of pot where you add some ingredients and its suppose to help clear up allergies. I think Oprah even had it on her show with some Dr. promoting it.

[MoSpur]

http://www.desertbloomherbs.com/images/netipot1.jpg

[lebomb]

The only thing that helps me is non-drying sinus capsules.

[travis2]

never had the nerve to try it...

[CrazyOne]

One sure solution... clear cut burning.

[1369]

One sure solution... clear cut burning.

But what of the golden-cheeked warbler?

[LaMarcus Bryant]

Poor Shelly!

[Twisted_Dawg]

This year seems to be the worst year ever for cedar fever. Even long time natives who have had no previous trouble are suffering.

[Shelly]

Poor Shelly!


Damn right!

[Jekka]

I feel your pain, I'm on antibiotics right now as a result of a cedar-induced sinus infection. A steroid shot helped pretty immediately, though.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

You should lift some weights to put on some muthle

[exstatic]

I survive using three things:
1) Claritin in the AM
2) Benedryl at bed time
3) My Ayr sinus irrigator once a day, usually in the evening.

[SequSpur]

no shit... this shit is kickin my ass.. shit.

[1Parker1]

I usually can combat it with Flonase. IF I start using it in November, but I never got any this year. The only thing that helps is Benedryl and I can only take in half doses or I'll be in a fog all day.

Blah.

Well, I just learned that I've delveloped a new allergy to "Birch Trees."....whatever the heck that is. But their must be a lot here in Philly, cuz my allergies in March reach a higher peak :( I just switched to Claranex Shelly...it's pretty decent. U should try it.

[ShoogarBear]

For the past several years, I always wondered why I kept getting these terrible colds when I went home for Christmas, because I used to never get colds.

Couple of years ago I finally figured out it was the cedar and just started loading up on the antihistamines. But it's still terrible. Soon as I get back to DC, I'm fine again.

[Sapphire]

Y'all need to use Cedar X.

http://www.naturalreflexes.com/pages/Aromatherapy.html

Seriously, the stuff works. You just put a tiny drop on each wrist and sniff it. I usually get cedar fever so bad my eyes are this red. So far this season, nothing! I will admit to a little bit of an itchy nose, but nothing like years past.

[SequSpur]

Y'all need to use Cedar X.

http://www.naturalreflexes.com/pages/Aromatherapy.html

Seriously, the stuff works. You just put a tiny drop on each wrist and sniff it. I usually get cedar fever so bad my eyes are this red. So far this season, nothing! I will admit to a little bit of an itchy nose, but nothing like years past.

quackery

[Sapphire]

quackery

Yeah, because you say so. :rolleyes

Keep getting full of snot, I don't give two shits about whether you try it or not.

[KEDA]

Tylenol Severe Allergy works for me

[ATX Spur]

Benadryl allergy and peppermint tea save my life a few times a year.

[Jimmy Craps Corn]

:sequ

[RashoFan]

Nasonex and Seravent are my new best friends right now!!! So far...so good!

[Jimmy Craps Corn]

Benadryl, 150mg. works for me

[spursfan09]

Man they're alot of drugs in this thread. Anyway I'm beginning to think I'm super human. I do not get get allergies or something. And I never get the flu.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

Man I thought I had bad allergies. Ya'll are just flat out weaklings

[shelshor]

Nasacort AQ, 1000mg of Vitamin C a couple of times/day, Claritin for maintainence
For the really bad days, acupunture works wonders

[ShoogarBear]

:lmao

Allergy smack. Only here.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

I feel all of your pain.

When I was in SA in January last year, after the freezing rain came an unseasonably warm spell and tons of cedar pollen... I haven't been that sick in a long time. Ended up with bronchitis coughing up blood. Ugh.

[mrsmaalox]

It's the unrelenting, dull headache that is killing me. Going on 3 days now.....

[Shelly]

I had a couple of margaritas and some Benedryl last night. Slept like a baby!

[Kori Ellis]

Is anyone else getting killed by the cedar right now?

I was sick with a bad cold over Christmas/NYE with a horrible cough, fever, whatever. And now, it just won't go away and I think it's cedar-related. I've been sick for 3 weeks straight :pctoss

[mardigan]

Mine have been going crazy as well. Cough, runny nose all that stuff for the last week and a half. Even my allergy shots which usually help me out immensely havent seemed to make a dent. Freakin Texas pollen is killing me.

[Ignignokt]

my allergies occur in fall and spring.

[exstatic]

Is anyone else getting killed by the cedar right now?

I was sick with a bad cold over Christmas/NYE with a horrible cough, fever, whatever. And now, it just won't go away and I think it's cedar-related. I've been sick for 3 weeks straight :pctoss

They said the count was over 15,000 last week. :wow Thank God I was out of town.


I use the Ayr irrigator. It's kit you can buy at HEB with a plastic bottle that you fill with distilled water and the contents of one of the included packets. I blast the sinuses 3-4 times a week when it's bad. I haven't had a sinus infection since 2001.

[SequSpur]

yeah dude...I was gettin killed but I got my allegra, my vitamins and some new nasal spray... rockin.

[Kori Ellis]

Man, I have to get some kind of spray because no pills are helping me at all (except Mucinex a little bit). It's horrendous. :pctoss

[ashbeeigh]

Mine usually kick in in late February...after everyone else has been hit really hard. I'm saving my energy as it seems as though this season is going ot be pretty bad.

[baseline bum]

They said the count was over 15,000 last week. :wow Thank God I was out of town.


I use the Ayr irrigator. It's kit you can buy at HEB with a plastic bottle that you fill with distilled water and the contents of one of the included packets. I blast the sinuses 3-4 times a week when it's bad. I haven't had a sinus infection since 2001.

It was near 22,000
http://www.woai.com/content/weather/intheair/story/1-2-10/w4neEBdrakaOFZSgB2PlUQ.cspx

[Cyrano]

Yeah, I've been barfing up a lung for almost two weeks now...problem is, the folks at the hospital won't let me visit my wife while I'm coughing so much, so she only gets to see me every other day or so, if I can keep my coughing under control.
NOW, the local news is saying that cedar pollen will be EXTREME for the next couple of weeks. Shit. Maybe they can set me up with an oxygen tent in the corner of her room or something.

[Summers]

I survive using three things:
1) Claritin in the AM
2) Benedryl at bed time
3) My Ayr sinus irrigator once a day, usually in the evening.

Yep, RG is having terrible cedar fever, but he says a 24-hour claritin first thing in the morning helps a lot. But he has to be careful with his caffeine intake, otherwise he feels really wired.

On the other hand, my highly allergic and asthmatic son is doing just fine and we haven't had to put him on any allergy drugs yet. Hooray!

[marini martini]

Fuck this shit, I been in bed since Sunday!!!

I been taking, aspirin, benadryl, an inhaler, and hot apple cider with rum. Ain't touchin' that syzzrip I got last year!

[admiralsnackbar]

Generic Zyrtec and a neti pot have finally made life bearable -- that they come on the cheap is just icing.

Before this (even on a steady diet of Flonase and Afrin/Sudafed/Clarinex/Claritin/insert-new-jack-prescripton-med-here) my quality of life was so bad I looked for work on the East coast just to get away. Anybody who calls acute allergy sufferers pussies clearly has no idea what an annual 5-month sinus infection is.

[MannyIsGod]

I'm pretty much dying from the headache right now. I've had it for a few days straight now. Its fairly brutal.

[greyforest]

my fool proof remedy is not being a pussy about such things

people often die from allergies. they just shouldn't have been pussies am i right

[Drachen]

Yeah, next year I will be sure to overfund my Health Savings Account so that I can get the year-long allergy-killing shot therapy. Yearly misery and sinus-infections get really annoying. I got a cold and my allergies hit me on New years eve. Just got outta bed Monday night. For me its a Claritin D in the morning and a Claritin D + Zyrtec (not D) at night. I can't do the whole afrin thing because I got addicted to it a few years ago and I don't want to go through that again.

[CosmicCowboy]

I can literally feel it in my eyes when the pollen hits them...I use the gerenic 24hr claritin and take them about every 6-8 hours, plus visine every couple of hours...

[mrsmaalox]

Yeah, next year I will be sure to overfund my Health Savings Account so that I can get the year-long allergy-killing shot therapy. Yearly misery and sinus-infections get really annoying. I got a cold and my allergies hit me on New years eve. Just got outta bed Monday night. For me its a Claritin D in the morning and a Claritin D + Zyrtec (not D) at night. I can't do the whole afrin thing because I got addicted to it a few years ago and I don't want to go through that again.

Whoa! There's a year long allergy-killing shot therapy?!?!

[The Gemini Method]

I don't know if this is just something that happens in Texas, but it sounds horrible by all accounts. I don't think we have this issue in California. Allergies are a bitch. I'm allergic to cats and that is quite annoying when you go to a friends' house or something and they have a cat. On the other hand, antihistamines are nice ways to get loopy.

[boutons_deux]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/health/Mountain_cedar_season_in_full_swing.html

I have a very bad allergy in UK and France in June, incapacitating.

I'd got a Kenacort 80 shot every May, a corticosteroid that suppresses the immune system, and made my Junes livable.

[balli]

I don't know if this is just something that happens in Texas, but it sounds horrible by all accounts
lol, I bitch and moan about Utah's dry air and pollution. Sounds like TX is hell on earth, by comparison. At least for sinuses. This thread's inspired me to be more grateful for the fact the fact I can, y'know, breathe.

[Drachen]

Whoa! There's a year long allergy-killing shot therapy?!?!

Yes, if you go to an allergist, you can get this therapy which kills all allergies. I think I remember him saying it is guaranteed for 5 years, but most people don't have any problems with allergies for the rest of their lives. You have to commit to getting a weekly shot for 52 weeks. With my insurance it will be $25 each time (because it is considered a visit to a specialist), but my step daughter has therapy appts and such that are weekly and I don't think on with our current family income, that we could afford both her weekly visits and $25 a week all year. So it will have to wait until the wife or I get a substantial raise, or until the step-daughter moves out. We are hoping that one of us will get a pretty big raise this year. Both of us need it. I get slammed for 3-4 mos out of the year, and she has nagging allergies for 9 mos out of the year.

[balli]

Eat a lot of local honey.

[leemajors]

Eat a lot of local honey.

that is effective but I don't think it helps much with the cedar bloom. it doesn't give me fits, but used to make my grandfather's face swell up.

[mrsmaalox]

Yes, if you go to an allergist, you can get this therapy which kills all allergies. I think I remember him saying it is guaranteed for 5 years, but most people don't have any problems with allergies for the rest of their lives. You have to commit to getting a weekly shot for 52 weeks. With my insurance it will be $25 each time (because it is considered a visit to a specialist), but my step daughter has therapy appts and such that are weekly and I don't think on with our current family income, that we could afford both her weekly visits and $25 a week all year. So it will have to wait until the wife or I get a substantial raise, or until the step-daughter moves out. We are hoping that one of us will get a pretty big raise this year. Both of us need it. I get slammed for 3-4 mos out of the year, and she has nagging allergies for 9 mos out of the year.

Hmm. I've had allergy immunotherapy and so have my kids, but I'd never heard of anything that kills allergies. The immunotherapy works like a vaccine to slowly build up your tolerance to what you are allergic to. And you take shots for anywhere from 3-5 years, but if they work for you the effects may last for the rest your life, which would be cool.
But my problem was that moving around the country so much, the allergens always changed.

[admiralsnackbar]

Eat a lot of local honey.

Cedar releases pollen in the winter, when bees are hibernating.

[leemajors]

Hmm. I've had allergy immunotherapy and so have my kids, but I'd never heard of anything that kills allergies. The immunotherapy works like a vaccine to slowly build up your tolerance to what you are allergic to. And you take shots for anywhere from 3-5 years, but if they work for you the effects may last for the rest your life, which would be cool.
But my problem was that moving around the country so much, the allergens always changed.

I got allergy shots when I was a kid, and they didn't seem to help much then. I have a lot less now though. Mold is what gets me.

[balli]

Cedar releases pollen in the winter, when bees are hibernating.

I figured as much, but I wasn't sure. Didn't know whether TX was warm enough that bees would stay active. Or whether they would hibernate anyway.

[CosmicCowboy]

Have y'all ever seen the junipers actually release the pollen? You can sit there and watch a hillside and you will actually see the random trees "explode' releasing these yellow clouds of pollen...

http://barbarashallue.typepad.com/.a/6a00e552a02fb48833010536e5eb9a970c-800wi

[MannyIsGod]

Holy shit CC. I'd seen the clouds come off them when they were hit but wtf man. Thats nasty.

The front coming through tonight will probably blow a shit load more of that stuff into SA. My head is still killing me but at least its not as bad as last night.

[baseline bum]

I don't know if this is just something that happens in Texas, but it sounds horrible by all accounts. I don't think we have this issue in California. Allergies are a bitch. I'm allergic to cats and that is quite annoying when you go to a friends' house or something and they have a cat. On the other hand, antihistamines are nice ways to get loopy.

The air quality in cedar pollen season on bad days in San Antonio is about equivalent to when LA has really bad fires and the sky is bright orange. It's much more frequent though.

[Drachen]

Have y'all ever seen the junipers actually release the pollen? You can sit there and watch a hillside and you will actually see the random trees "explode' releasing these yellow clouds of pollen...

http://barbarashallue.typepad.com/.a/6a00e552a02fb48833010536e5eb9a970c-800wi

Well, in a sense it is ejaculating.

[marini martini]

Have y'all ever seen the junipers actually release the pollen? You can sit there and watch a hillside and you will actually see the random trees "explode' releasing these yellow clouds of pollen...

http://barbarashallue.typepad.com/.a/6a00e552a02fb48833010536e5eb9a970c-800wi

Looks like the front of my property!:wow

[baseline bum]

Looks like the front of my property!:wow

Then I'm coming over to your place with some chainsaws.

[marini martini]

Then I'm coming over to your place with some chainsaws.

Thanks, but no thanks. We like the "woodsy" look. You can come over and bring a still, as I've often considered turning the juniper berries in to Gin!:toast

[PM5K]

Didn't read the whole thread but something has been drying me out the past few days, not bothering me too much though.

[ploto]

I can literally feel it in my eyes when the pollen hits them...I use the gerenic 24hr claritin and take them about every 6-8 hours, plus visine every couple of hours...

Ooh, don't use Visine. Use Systane.

[baseline bum]

Thanks, but no thanks. We like the "woodsy" look. You can come over and bring a still, as I've often considered turning the juniper berries in to Gin!:toast

Gin :vomit:

Cut those fuckers down and plant some agave pinas so you can make a real liquor, and maybe we'll be in business.