people often die from allergies. they just shouldn't have been pussies am i right
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.
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...
Whoa! There's a year long allergy-killing shot therapy?!?!
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 . 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.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/health/M...ull_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.
lol, I and moan about Utah's dry air and pollution. Sounds like TX is 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.I don't know if this is just something that happens in Texas, but it sounds horrible by all accounts
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.
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.
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.
Cedar releases pollen in the winter, when bees are hibernating.
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.
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.
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...
Holy 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 load more of that stuff into SA. My head is still killing me but at least its not as bad as last night.
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.
Well, in a sense it is ejaculating.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...
Looks like the front of my property!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...
Then I'm coming over to your place with some chainsaws.Looks like the front of my property!
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!
Didn't read the whole thread but something has been drying me out the past few days, not bothering me too much though.
Ooh, don't use Visine. Use Systane.
GinThanks, 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!
Cut those ers down and plant some agave pinas so you can make a real liquor, and maybe we'll be in business.
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