Seasonal Allergies?

[BrassFusion]

I get sick as a dog every year in the late winter. It starts out as cold symptoms, sorta, but I remain congested for weeks and it usually ends up as pleurisy or bronchitis. It's been recurring like ten years now. Always right before the thaw.

Anyone else have this problem? I mean, am I allergic to snow melting or something? GAH!

[Head Wreck]

i have a seasonal alergy to cats. perticularly from the start of winter to the end of autumn.

[Rayne]

I'm allergic to everything ... (not really, but it sure does seem like it) ... I'm usually always sick.

[BrassFusion]

Well damn. Is there anyone else who's NEVER sick except some sort of allergy manifestation around the end of winter?

[torn asunder]

i've really only gotten sick once, i think, in the last two years... i simply refuse to let it happen.

[Rayne]

i've really only gotten sick once, i think, in the last two years... i simply refuse to let it happen.

I wish it was that easy for me.

[Msterbeau]

Something hit me this week. Oddly, It's gone now. I had rashes all over the place and they were extremely itchy. A few days of Benedryl worked wonders... but I'm still wondering what it was.

The past few springs in Michigan have been pretty bad for a month. Never used to be that way.

[Rayne]

Something hit me this week. Oddly, It's gone now. I had rashes all over the place and they were extremely itchy. A few days of Benedryl worked wonders... but I'm still wondering what it was.

The past few springs in Michigan have been pretty bad for a month. Never used to be that way.

The way it was explained to me by my allergy doc a few years ago is that your body will put up with allergens for however long it does eventually some people's bodies can just decide it doesn't want to put up with it anymore and it goes into allergy mode. That's how sudden allergies develop ... and it can happen at anytime. Some people's bodies just put up with them all their lives and they never have any allergies.

I had some allergies since I was born. At about 16 I developed more ... and this past year (I'll be 28 in August) even more.

If the Benedrl worked, it was definately allergy ... to what though, you'll probably never know unless you come across it again and it's more dicernable that time.

[sass_in_the_pants]

This is weird...

I don't often get sick either, but I have allergy issues...but they don't hit until May.

Tree, pollen, and weeds are the most common (you can get your allergen forecast on weather.com), but I don't know of anything that hits in early March...

[BrassFusion]

It doesn't seem like an allergy at all except for it being the exact same symptoms at the same time every year... Like a really bad cold, I guess. And the benedryl sure hasn't been helping. =( I took some friday night and when i tried to get up saturday morning i felt like a zombie. i had to cancel my classes. =...(

[Hellion]

I just get the occasional hayfever,now when the bees and wasps/hornets start flying around I am gone!!

(starts stockpiling barrels of Raid)

[BrassFusion]

lame update: i guess it's just a cold. which is good cuz i'll be able to catch up on lost partying on st. patty's day

[JaneDead]

i take nasacort and aleve cold and sinus.

it might not just be a cold though. right now i feel like i have a "cold" too but it is in fact my sinus/allergy issues with this weather being nice then cold then nice then cold. and it will act up again by april. sometimes i am not sure but when my son and i get it at the same time and no one else does i know we are having some allergy problems.

well either way the aleve cold and sinus works well for allergies or just sickness so maybe give it a try

[Scales]

I rarely get sick, so I'm lucky. The last time I got sick was when I went to a gig with a ton of smoke, fog, and smoked a cigar, spent the next two days throwing up over 30 times (didn't keep count after that). After that I quit smoking.

[BrassFusion]

Well, a cold is a virus, so you can only really get it from contact with someone... "contaminated." And I guess that's all it was. I'm totally fine now, which I didn't expect.

But your smoke/fog/cigar thing? Yeah, it was probably atmospheric.

[kellygrrrrrl]

The way it was explained to me by my allergy doc a few years ago is that your body will put up with allergens for however long it does eventually some people's bodies can just decide it doesn't want to put up with it anymore and it goes into allergy mode. That's how sudden allergies develop ... and it can happen at anytime. Some people's bodies just put up with them all their lives and they never have any allergies.

I had some allergies since I was born. At about 16 I developed more ... and this past year (I'll be 28 in August) even more.

If the Benedrl worked, it was definately allergy ... to what though, you'll probably never know unless you come across it again and it's more dicernable that time.

I NEVER had allergies as a kid....

In the last 5-10 years, things just got worse and worse until about this year.

When it became intolerable.....

It got to a point where I didn't know if I was coming down with something......it was so bad.....(I have 2 cats)

Then I'd go outside and be fine, then I'd go over so and so's with dogs/cats or near a woods and then boom....attack.

I finally went to the Doc and had them give me a skin test....which I developed Hives on just about everything.

Hense they started me on the allergy shots.

I feel almost 98% better now....with the expetion of food allergies that I am still monitoring....unfortunately, the shots don't do anything for food allergies.

Just can't eat em.

Which I am fine with,.....most of the stuff I am allergic to I could do without anyways!! (Potatoes --->FRENCH FRIES)