Wellness

[151949]

I read on FB that it is going to be a bad pollen year in my part of the country. I have to ask the doctor for something - I have suffered thru red tide all winter and it finally has floated out to Mexico but we will be getting pine pollen any time now.That is the worst for me.I can't use antihistamines because of other medical issues and I'm already on prednisone. Maybe he will increase that.

[Zhills]

[151949]

Zhillis's picture is not an exaggeration.It actually looks like you got a dusting of yellow snow every morning. You clean it all up and the next day - there it is again.

[Poodlepet2]

@Zhills, DD has a black suv.  One of her friends got silly and sponged stripe patterns on it: it looks like a bee on wheels !

Poodlepet2

[ChynnaBlue]

I've had severe allergies since age 3. Of all the things I've used over the years, the single most effective medication has been Flonase. It makes a huge difference.

I have a pollen chart for my area so I know which pollens are the highest at what point in the year and I visit my doctor a month before I see my worst triggers on the chart and up my medications so that I'm ready by the time the pollen comes around. I tell my friends to do the same and, without fail, none of them ever do. Then the pollen comes and everyone else around me is miserable and suffering and I feel the least bad of all my friends. I feel terrible for them and remind them again to plan ahead next time. But at least I know my plan works.

When the seasons for my triggers are over, I go back to the doctor and adjust my medications back down to my normal maintenance levels and stop taking a few things I only take during the worst seasons. 

Last year I did get surprised and started showing symptoms early and had no idea why. I'm not allergic to ragweed, but the doctor told me that the ragweed levels were so high at one point last year that people without allergies were coming in and complaining because the particulate levels were so high that you didn't need to be allergic, the crud in the air was causing trouble for asthmatics and people with sinus problems.

[sophiamarie]

[CelticCrafter]

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@151949 wrote:

Zhillis's picture is not an exaggeration.It actually looks like you got a dusting of yellow snow every morning. You clean it all up and the next day - there it is again.

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Im in NJ so the windows aren't open yet but once they are and things have started to bloom, you could wipe the surface of everything 3 times a day and still have the rag come away green.

[151949]

I'll just get done with it here and we'll head to Pa where the spring pollens will be out, then summer is pretty much ok but in the fall - ragweed time is awful and I'll beg my DH to come home. Then I'll be good til march again.AC of course helps a lot if it's warm out but this week it is only about 72 out so the AC doesn't come on and the house gets stuffy.

[Zhills]

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@sophiamarie wrote:

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I remember it well.  I've seen it snow, and stick to the ground twice.  Several times, here in Tampa it would be snowing on top of the tall buildings but not on the ground.  

I think the picture is just a pun!

[sophiamarie]

@Zhills  No, it's real.  My kids kept the newspapers.  I remember it too.  The snow really stuck to the ground.  The first time they had ever seen snow.  It didn't last very long but enough to make a snowball.  

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