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GAH! Hayfever :(

invisible_al

09:50 / 13.06.03

Well I should remember as it happens every year about this time, but you know every time I think 'well it won't as bad this year, you're supposed to grow out of it', right? But no Hayfever has landed on me with a thump, runny nose, little sleep at nights, etc etc etc.
Does anyone have any bright ideas, cures, or failing that mutal bitching about the evils of Pollen they'd like to share?
Oh one thing that my new housemate has bought for herself is some local honey, on the grounds that it will have local pollen in it and by taking it you build up a resistance to it. Hasn't worked so far, but we probably should have started this beforehand, anyone else had a any luck with this?

Mr Messy

10:08 / 13.06.03

I've heard good stuff about local honey. A couple of hayfever sufferes I know swear by it.
Is your honey really local?
The only london stuff I know is produced by bees please

Spatula Clarke

10:15 / 13.06.03

The only thing GP-prescribed that's ever worked - to a degree - for me is Zirtec/Cetirizine. It's far from perfect, but every time I abandon it to try something else I immediately end up regretting the decision.

illmatic

10:19 / 13.06.03

Well, I'm going to go to Boots this lunchtime and get the homepathic rememdy they sell - I think it's called New Aeon or something like that, or have I been reading to much Crowley again? It's a thelemic hayfever cure, it clears your nose, and helps manifests your WILL.

I must have that wrong - will report back later. It's weird because it works, but on really heavy pollen days, it only lasts for about half an hour or so, then fades so you have to take more. Which is okay, because they're tiny little pils which melt on your tounge.

invisible_al

10:24 / 13.06.03

The Local Honey (for local people) was picked up in a Stratford health food shop, genuine East London honey according to the lable. Don't have it to hand, think it may have a website, will check when I get home.

Spatula Clarke

10:28 / 13.06.03

Illmatic - I think you mean New Era. Never worked for me, unfortunately.

illmatic

10:39 / 13.06.03

I do mean New Era - I just want them to be called that.

Gypsy Lantern

11:03 / 13.06.03

It's a thelemic hayfever cure, it clears your nose, and helps manifests your WILL.

I'm currently taking Zirtechoronzon tablets. They come in little mauve pills and are fast acting on the qliphotic regions responsible for heyfever.

In actuality, I'm trying to combat hey fever by doing chi kung breathing outside in the garden. So far it's having the complete oppposite effect, but I think that's just nature trying to dissuade me cos it knows I'm on to something.

Spatula Clarke

11:07 / 13.06.03

I think the problem with New Era is that I'm allergic to the name. Homeopathic remedies tread dangerously close to hippiedom as it is without calling them New fucking Era...

Bear

11:15 / 13.06.03

I was hoping that my allergy had switched to cats rather than hayfever but it kicked in last night, I hate it.
To be honest though most of the pills you can get from any old supermarket seem to work for me at least they help a to stop me going blind due to weeping eyes. I heard red onions are meant to help but I haven't tried that yet.

Only sure fire way I've found is to go to the coast the salty breeze clears your head totally.

Hugh_DeMann

08:27 / 14.06.03

Top Tip Cure: Eat pollen. It really works.
I bought a jar of the stuff from a honey factory in Portugal last year. It "gives you" hayfever for about 3 minutes and then you're fine for about 8hours.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

13:15 / 14.06.03

I've just started on my tablets after about three weeks of bouts of sneezing while trying to will myself not to have hayfever and an appeal to Oshun. If I concentrate then I have a bout of sneezing and then it all stops, but then quite often will start when I stop concentrating, and my nose was itchy most of the time.

Mourne Kransky

18:51 / 14.06.03

Never found a cure myself, Al, but it is true (in my case anyway) that you grow "out of it". Was my mid thirties before it finally went though. Until then I just had to rely on avoidance. Probably why I was so gothy then and am not so gothy now. Now I bask in the sun like all my reptilian kin...

Kit-Cat Club

19:13 / 14.06.03

I have a lousy cold, and the fact that I came down with it at exactly the same time that Oxford in general began hayfever sneezing season makes me wonder whether I too have become susceptible - how does one tell the difference? (I'm pretty sure it's just a cold, but... just to check)

Mourne Kransky

19:23 / 14.06.03

Only difference I remember is the sneezing seemed to be worse, quicker, and accompanied by runny eyes too. And it got better when I was indoors and out of the sun, away from the grass pollens.

Kit-Cat Club

19:38 / 14.06.03

Well, I feel like crud now, so it must just be a cold... perhaps I can still blame this instance of the dreaded summer cold on hayfever sufferers: bloody sneezing all the bloody time, no wonder germs are doing the rounds...

Mourne Kransky

20:03 / 14.06.03

Not a lot of cheery news about hay fever really, except that making home cures may result in Ecstasy.

Spatula Clarke

21:05 / 14.06.03

KCC: I get a strange kind of itchiness behind the eyes and towards the top of my palette that doesn't come with colds.

Tryphena Absent

07:59 / 16.06.03

I think this thread may have given me hayfever, my eyes seem to be itching.

Whisky Priestess

15:45 / 17.06.03

E. Ranyd - me too. It's icky. And even better, when you combine hayfever with a cat allergy and have to sleep in a bed the cat had shed all over, you wake up at six in the morning unable to breathe

And then you have to go out and sit in a chair and sleep upright because of the pressure on your lungs and the ceaseless coughing and wheezing!

It's fucking great, I tell you ...

Spatula Clarke

16:50 / 17.06.03

I do the cat allergy thing too, which means no indoor pets for Randy.

Legend tells of an GP-administered injection of some sort that's a cure for specific allergies. Anyone know any more or tried it themselves?

invisible_al

09:35 / 18.06.03

Well I did hear about an injection to get rid of Hay-Fever for the whole summer, when I asked for it however the doctor said 'we don't do it on the NHS, oh and theres a small risk of death from it'. I would have taken the risk at that point *sigh*.
I've also read that hayfever sufferes are more likely to suffer from other allegic reactions (rabbits and cats in my case) and Asthma (also true in my case). Does this gel with other peoples experience.

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