I have explosive seasonal allergies that literally shut me down and throw me into near convulsive sneezing fits with an uncontrollably runny nose and tearing eyes. It gets so bad that without medication I cannot function at all and have even had to have a crew member drive due to my inability to do so. Zyrtec until now has worked very well at controlling symptoms although I've still felt pretty funny and had some difficulty with concentration and slight grogginess. This has all changed with Nasacort and if anyone else suffers severe allergies I HIGHLY recommend it since it is working miracles for me.
I had to take daily asthma and allergy medicines for over 25 years. I found a thing about the Paleo Diet online. I tried it for three months solid, along with a daily big dose of high quality fish oil. Both went away and haven't came back even after eating evil gluten again. I notice a creep-up of symptoms if I eat too much junk food for too long. I go back to mostly meat and veg for a couple of weeks and add the fish oil and it goes away again. I used to be debilitated by allergies. Now it is an odd feeling to be the only one not sneezing.
Just because it doesn't kill you doesn't make it food.
This worked woders for me, and I only suggest it because I am a believer.
Robb Wolf Check out the part on autoimmunity.
Discussions about food and diet can be as passionate as P&R, so I apologize in advance!
I've been taking 10mg Cetirizine Hydrocloride once a day.
For the days that I am having kniption fits I goto an herbal diuretic like Powerthin Phase II.
Is it OTC? I have to change my allergy pill about twice a year. They work good for a while then quit on me, usually at the worst possible moment too.
At my youngest's graduation last year I looked like a big cry baby.
I just started using it also. I hope it works out. My allergies aren't as bad as yours but they can get that way. I like Zyrtec but I might as well drink a case of beer for what it does to me.
Its OTC now. Its not cheap. I don't know how long a bottle will last me but maybe 2 weeks. Its about $20 a bottle. I also find that if I take the same allergy medication for a long period of time it doesn't work as well.
Cetirizine HCL is Zyrtec, just generic. If Zyrtec messes you up like it does me try a half dose, that's what I always did. But not anymore now that I've tried this Nasacort, what a miracle drug!
Yes it is OTC and I would recommend that anyone who has allergies to try it. If it works for someone who suffers like I do it should work for anyone I would think.
I get seasonal allergies enough I have to medicate.
Right now it's the tree pollen. Never used to bother me until I had to work 12Hr./day for a month in the worst juniper pollen I have ever experienced. There were times visibility was down to a couple hundred feet when the wind was blowing. I would go home with my eyes about swollen shut.
Now the trees bother me every year like clock work.
Juniper, Oak, and Pine trees seem the worst.
I tried Zertec last week and it really didn't help much.
The ONLY drug that seems to help without side affects is Claritin D.
Regular Claritin gets rid of the allergies, but plugs my sinuses up horribly to the point I'd rather have the allergies. The "D" portion of the drug (which is strictly regulated), helps with the side affect.
> Its OTC now. Its not cheap. I don't know how long a bottle will last me but maybe 2 weeks. Its about $20 a bottle. I also find that if I take the same allergy medication for a long period of time it doesn't work as well.
?? 365 Tablets for $16 seems "not cheap" to you? You must be a surveyor.
It is a once a day dose and cheap over the internet, $4/100.
I usually take it at night and will change to during the day when it rains.
The only time I get the kniption fits is when I am in the middle of mold, spore and/or pollen filled days or around too much foofoo juice and perfume in the same room at the same time.
That reminds me of something from the 70s called T.E.P.
Theophyline
Ephedrine Hydrocloride
and
Phenolbarbital to keep your head from flying off into space
:'(
I take Claritin D 12 hr on a regular basis this time of year. If I take it in the morning, I'm fine. If I take it at bedtime, I wake up about 5am ready for a days work. If I take it about sunset, I can't sleep much of the night and the next day is pretty much wasted.
James
Yep, I am an allergy suffer, too. Do most all surveyors suffer this symptom? And we work outside!:excruciating:
I always have a bottle of "LOCAL" honey... Eat it throughout the year for the past 4 years now and my symptoms are slowing down. Still get allergies but it's not as bad and I'm not popping pills for months straight to control it anymore. I think before I learned of the honey trick the doctor's prescribed 'rhinocort' some kind of nasal spray.
I take OTC stuff from Costco. I take the Kirkland Brand AllerClear. It's 10mg Loratadine. It's worked for me the past few years. It's usually $12.99 for 365, but they put it on sale for around $9.00 every so often.
Am allergic to almost everything, except ragweed pollen! During the peak months of late April through early June, I take fexofenidine (Allegra 24 hour) in the morning followed by a Zyrtec in the evening. That seems to work, especially if I start taking the dosage BEFORE I get allergy symptoms. Welcome to Louisville, allergy capital of the USA.
If I wait until I am clogged up... game over. The nasal steroids have my opthalmologist worried. Recommended I don't take.
