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Allergy Season
For the last couple of years, my allergies have responded well to cpap treatment and have actually been better due to the flitered air. I think I would use my cpap just to help with those, even without sleep apnea :).
This year has been a different creature altogether. The doctor has said with the really wet summer we experienced last summer and then the wet winter, and now a wet spring allergies have been as bad as she has seen for a long time.
In years past I have started a regime of allergy treatments to head off bad attacks. The regime has included Zyrtec, Singulair, and an inhaler. At other times I have had to add a nasal spray that is cortisone based. Well I let them get out of hand this year and now am having issues with shortness of breath, cough, congestion, etc. etc. I have since started on Symbiocort, Zyrtec, Nasonex, allergy eye drops, and an emergency inhaler. I will sure be glad when the pollen levels off!!
I know I could use a Neti-pot -- but no matter what I have tried I typically have a drippy nose for more than an hour with times gushes of water. I have tried different positions, the gentle blowing, holding my down for several seconds, etc. I hate the drip so don't use it.
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Permalink Reply by Jerry O Bradley II on
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Glad to know I'm not alone here. This truly has been a bad season. I typically have some sinus congestion issues any time the wind blows at gusts over 30 mph, regardless of the season, but nothing that an Alavert and Sudafed doesn't help. However, the past 4 weeks or so, I have been wheezing, coughing, and short of breath in addition to the usual itchy eyes nose and throat. I never had asthma as a child, but now that I'm 40, and not nearly as athletic as I was in my teens, I fear that I might be suffering from it now. Anyone else out there have Adult Onset Asthma?
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Permalink Reply by sleepycarol on
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Yep, I didn't have asthma as child and it cropped up in my mid thirties.
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Permalink Reply by Jo E on
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Sleepycarol, Have you tried a Sinus Rinse by NeilMed instead of a Neti-pot? NeilMed makes both Neti-pots and Sinus Rinse. They both do the same thing but are used somewhat differently. I don't think I could use a Neti-pot, but I do use the Sinus Rinse. My nose gets only a little runny. I blow my nose a few minutes after I use it and then again a little later.
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Permalink Reply by amott1973 on
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I'll second the NeilMed Sinus Rinse. Instead of having to rely on gravity to make it flow it is a squeeze bottle. Now I have chronically inflamed sinuses, so I am careful not to squeeze too hard as it can fill up my ears! Or at least that's how it feels. But it does usually get thru one way or the other (usually squirting into the congested side actually works best).
Allergies have been horrid this year! I do hope you have a good pulmonologist for the breathing/asthma symptoms though. My asthma, which I've had my whole life but no one ever told me, is now so much better controlled now that I have a daily treatment for it. For me Advair works well, or right now I'm on an inhaled steroid (only allowed certain things while pregnant). My son has the same kind of allergies I do (more of a cough than a wheezing issue) and is on Asthmanex which seems to work well for him.
Best of luck with those allergies! They sound horrible!
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