r/Hayfever

Have had hayfever all my life symptoms being all the usual ones - runny nose, watery and itchy eyes, the odd cough and sore ears etc. However the past couple of years I’ve noticed a new symptoms which I’ve only recently realised coincides with hayfever season. I get itchy and red arms when I’m outside particularly if I’m doing something like cycling which is a bit random! It calms down once I’m out of pollen or once I’ve showered. Anyone else get this as a symptom of hayfever?

Side note: I also have keratosis pilaris on my arms so they are lowkey always a bit red!

I’ve been having allergies to pollen and dust mites when I was a kid, ended up few times in a hospital. Eventually I was diagnosed with allergic asthma. I kind of grew out of, especially when moved for Uni and for 20+ years I had no attack, did not need rescue inhaler. I still had watery eyes, itchy nose etc. However, everything changed when I moved from South Germany to the very West of Germany. I was living around Aachen, got covid followed by CMV infection. I was struggling quite a lot and it took me months to recover. Meanwhile, I discovered that there was abundant mold in the house worsening my symptoms. I decided to move to the Aachen city in a new mold-free apartment. I did prick test to check for allergens and mold sensitivity and I got super bad reactions to European dust mites and mild one to pollen (btw took weeks for my hand to recover). A soon after, in August/September, I got first bad breathing/asthma attack. Doctor gave me relvar elipta for 2 months and my symptoms were resolved. I was totally fine until August last year when the same thing happened. However, I was better after leaving away to seaside for few weeks but symptoms resurfaced as soon as i was back. Just to note i felt like strong irritation in my lungs, tightness, no wheezing. Since then I’ve been taking foster 200/6 that was managing symptoms (new pulmonologist). I also so immunologist/allergologist and i was given bilastin and montelukast to manage inflammation and that resolved my eye itchiness and nasal problems. I was doing mostly fine until April except for few episodes of mild irritation caused by dust or animal fur (interestingly had no allergies before). Sadly, in November and March my bf and I I got two super bad lung infections with severe coughing and it took us 2 weeks each time to recover. However, since may I was getting lung irritations all the time. Not sure if those contributed to my state. I work in the lab but protected to everything toxin. My asthma got triggered after being in a dusty lab and since then I reacted to everything. I had difficulty breathing from perfume in taxi or mild ethanol or any kind of fumes. It took me fee weeks to get normal breathing. I have no wheezing and coughing, it is just i feel suffocated and strong irritation in lungs. These conditions alternates and sometimes i am fine. For example when I went to specialist in that period I was fine. Nevertheless he increased doses of foster to 2 puffs twice a day. I got better, traveled lived my life again. Got back to Aachen and was fine during heat wave. As soon as weather changed i’ve been feeling shitty, just chest pain, irritation and mild shortness of breath. My GP is on vacation, other GPs just told me I breathe ok, and dismissed my symptoms.I struggle sometimes with breathing very fast. Interestingly I sleep well. I had asthma as a kid and actually no one explained to me how to take inhalers, where to go and what to do if i am not ok. I am waiting to get enrolled in program for asthma but meanwhile i feel desperate. I feel that GPs think I am overreacting, specialist is unreachable. Mentally, I feel sad and desperate, as in last months I was not able to do sport and enjoy life. To note in Aachen weather changes like crazy, it is very humid and dusty. As soon as I open windows everything is full of dust. I have hoover to remove and kill dust mites, cleaning-every week (currently lady is helping me as I am unable to clean house), freezing covers, wash bedsheets every week at 60 degrees or freeze pillows, using HEPA air purifier but there is still ton of dust. I feel sorry to bother my friends, boyfriend, and family because in last year I had so many health issues. On the top of asthma I have coeliac disease so my symptoms are kind of alternating. I try to be positive but sometimes it is really difficult especially when medical personnel dismisses you. I just came here hoping to hear some nice comforting word or experience from people that battle this longer than me.

Heya all,

30 year old here living in Wales. On the 19th I had finished an exam I was doing. Had a few drinks. Tried some Indian street food for the first time and my throat started closing up.

Great I am getting sick I thought. Spent the weekend in bed sneezing and congested. No coughing. No headaches or heat odd I thought.

Monday was okay then Tuesday a heatwave hit and its been bloody awful. It was about this time I realised I've probably developed hayfever.

Taking 120mg of fexofenadine hydrochloride and it helped a bit. Yesterday it went away i could breath again opened the windows like I always did every day loved the smell of fresh and stuff. Then sure enough in evening and overnight suffering.

This morning blew my nose snorted coughed up fibrous clumps of mucus. Half of why I enjoy showers is the smell of the toiletries. Gonna go out to see if I can get a spray or whatever before work.

I know many here suffer severely and definitely much longer than I have. But as a new sufferer my goodness this is awful. Its like having a cold all the time. Its exhausting and embarrassing and every time I feel relief its immense. I am now waiting for a normal day again whilst my throat is sore and my nostrils burning.

Take care all

Honestly, I can't believe that the solution was this simple all along...
For years, I've suffered from debilitating hay fever. Nothing seemed to help. Antihistamines did next to nothing, I even had immunotherapy for 3 years with no results.
I have tried using nasal steroid sprays before - to no avail, so I gave up. Reading a post on this sub about correct use inspired me to try again. I wasn't expecting much, but it couldn't hurt to give it another go.

(By spraying towards your ear with your head tilted slightly forward, taking deep breaths instead of snorting the spray)

I kid you not: all my allergy symptoms in and around my nose have vanished completely after two weeks. I sneeze 3 times a day now at most, some days not at all. I used to hate that constant itch in your nose that always felt like you were about to sneeze but couldn't - that's gone now too. So is the snot. Pollen counts at very high and I'm breathing with absolutely 0 issues.
I'm so grateful I found this community, this one simple thing drastically improved my quality of life, thank you all so much!

In the UK. Can’t believe I suffered through the heat and now on to another form of suffering 😭

Kind of similar.. but i take it for my exzema rather than hayfever but wanted to see if nayone else had this side effect. been taking two x 180mg for about 4 years now. In that time i can only go to the toilet (number 2) - maximum twice a week, often i block the toilet... is this something others face? I feel like its made me hungier as well and gained weight, slowed down my motalisbism

Went from the weak film-coated 10mg tablets to taking 120mg Fexofenadine tablets once a day, and it barely does anything.

ive heard that Loratadine + dymista nasal spray is good?

My hayfever this week has been just…awful. I’m in the UK so on top of the heatwave I’m dealing with this too. It’s deliberating.

Just sneezed about 5 times so forcefully that my nose started bleeding and I went dizzy. I don’t know much long longer I can go on like this. My eyes won’t even open fully I look permanently stoned.

I don't think I have suffered with hayfever before but I have been having these cold/hayfever symptoms the last couple of days. I'm in the uk, in the south and obviously we have had the red weather warning so I'm thinking where the hell did a cold come from!?!?

My sinuses and forehead hurt, my eyes hurt but aren't itchy, my nose is all stuffy and it's itchy on just one side and so much snot that I'm sniffling, sneezing and blowing my nose all day. My throat feels like crap, kind of like a sore throat but not fully and a bit of a cough which feels dry and also my chest feels dry and a bit sore.

Anyone else??

I’m allergic to grass pollen and I’m seriously considering a 1-2 week holiday in Iceland next year during peak season😂

I never see this listed as an official symptom, or only as a consequence of broken sleep. But every year when hayfever season rolls around (for me, June), I sleep more and I'm yet more tired. I go and do a few physical things and I'm beat. Does anyone else get this or is it just me?

I dunno which is worse- suffering in the heat because the windows are closed or suffering with the pollen because the windows are open.

Is there a good time of day to open the windows, maybe when pollen is at its lowest in the day and I’ll probably avoid opening the bedroom window - but my at home office is like a sauna 🥵

Is there any benefit to getting the Kenalog injection in late June? How long does this take to see the effects? Thanks