I hate florida!!

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The nurse who gave me my shot yesterday said grass, mold spores, and now weeRAB are high here. I was given levaquin for 10 days and am still on it but i feel miserable.

I have only been getting shots in FL for 1.5 yrs (15 years back in MD). I wonder if things will get better in years to come. :confused:
 
Yep, you don't get much of a break from allergies down there, do you? Up here in the north, the tree season is finally over, after 2 straight months of outdoors trying to kill me. Grass we have plenty, though.

What are your worst symptoms? There are assorted symptom-specific treatments you can use. Have you tried taking a daily antihistamine throughout the pollen season?
 
Oh, I am an allergy mess. I get shots, take zyrtec-d, astepro antihistimine spray, flonase, and do sinus washes. the worst symptoms i have are the sinus pain and pressure.

i started taking mucinex b/c they say it's good for thinning out mucus in the sinuses better than sudafed. i could take 4 sudafed and feel nothing from it. i just keep blowing out all of this think, clear junk.
 
It sounRAB like you're taking all the right medicines, so I'm going to throw some non-drug suggestions at you.

1) Sinus irrigation. Don't knock it 'till you've tried it.

2) I've made my bedroom the no-pollen zone and when pollen counts are high, I spend most of the evening there. I have a HEPA filter, and when I get home, I shower, wash my hair, and leave my pollen-infested clothes in the hamper in the bathroom. (It may be extreme, but I wound up in the ER in May, so...)

3) When I have to go out on high-pollen days, I wear a mask.
 
I do irrigations with the neil med sinus rinse. i do have a HEPA filter. It was pretty inexpensive at home depot. I know some of them can cost $1000 or so. Do they work any better?
 
No, I don't think the pricey ones are better. As long as the filter is big enough for the room, it should be fine.
 
I was on injections for a nuraber of years; moved to another county; went to a new allergist, who told me I had a different allergy than the first dr. told me and also told me I didn't need the injections. Before I knew it, my life had changed for the worse. My balance went, I could not think straight and I simply was MISERABLE. Went back to my original dr. and when he walked into the office with the fax from the second dr., he told me that the second dr. had run the wrong tests! He put me back on injections and that was a little over a year ago. I am JUST now getting back on my feet. Maybe you are so miserable because you truly need those injections and it takes time for them to become effective.
 
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