u/Historical-Youths

I live on the east coast and have suffered from near debilitating seasonal allergies for 10+ years. I would truly be miserable for half of the year. Brain fog, hives, asthma, sneezing etc… I had to avoid high histamine foods and alcohol, I overall felt like a different person. It caused me a lot of stress and I spent so much money on allergy medication, which never even worked for my symptoms. In the past year I started dating someone that has cats, and immediately found out that my cat allergies are far worse than I thought they were. Again, I was miserable but now these symptoms were year around. I finally gave in and went to see an allergist to find out more about shots. I had put this off for years because all I ever heard was how inconvenient the process is, and expensive it could be. But I really reached my breaking point.
After one visit with a doctor I felt that this was the best route for me to take.
I’ve now been doing cluster shots for 1.5 months and I’ve already noticed significant improvement. For context I live in nyc, all my coworkers have been complaining about allergies for the past week and that’s when I realized I hadn’t even considered taking medication recently. I wouldn’t say my symptoms are completely gone but they are manageable for the first time in my memory. All the time (3 hour sessions once a week…) feel 100% worth it now. I can’t believe I didn’t start this sooner.

Anyways I wanted to give people hope I know how frustrating it is to deal with these things on a daily basis.