It's that time of year again. I'm not too bad but I have got itchy eyes today, but my poor son is all bunged up and feeling rough today, he had to go in doors and lie on the settee when I mowed the lawn (at least that's what he said!).

I do feel sorry for him ... and me! I know I'm in for six months of very loud snoring coming from his bedroom as he struggles to breathe at night.

As a youngster I never suffered with hayfever, it's only in the last few years that I've got it. I'm not sure if there's a reason for that, but I do think that lots of people seem to suffer with it these days to some extent, whereas when I was young I can only remember one person I knew at school who used to get it.

So does anyone else suffer?

it stopped when i was living in devon......but my god, it came back with a vengence when i came home last year....... its a blummin nightmare!!!!

local honey is supposed to help, but you need to start eating it in the winter to build up your immunity.....

I`ve never suffered with it but my friend gets it quite bad. When it`s at it`s worse she usually moves back home to her mum and dads as they live by the sea which usually helps.

always kinda suffered from it - horrible -but hasn't been bad for a few years. I find cabernet savenion helps.


but then again it usually helps anything. If only I could spell it.......

Oh yes, and it's just starting now. At the moment it is just a few sneezes and a bit of a runny nose, another month and I won't be able to sleep for the itching and then by June I will resort to begging the Dr for steroids to control it.

I never suffered with it as a child, only got it when I was pregnant with the middle child....he also now suffers with it (karma).

Love the summer:wallbash:

I developed it when I was 16 pulling up long grass in a horse field. I suffered really badly in the summers of 1995 & 1996 when I was working in Virginia, USA. I only get it evry mildly now.

Apparently it often works on a 7 year cycle.

Seven years developing it up to the worst level it will ever effect you.

Seven years at the worst level it will effect you.

Seven years coming down so you no longer suffer.

This can be pretty much true of me although I understand that your immune system will work in this way against one allergy at a time so if you suffer hayfever due to something other than say grass pollen that set it off initially you could be starting the seven year cycle again.

Does any of that make sense? :bag:

Does any of that make sense? :bag:

Nope :blink:

I am a sufferer, but im not too bad. It doesnt affect my life to be honest.

I suffer at the beginning of the season ... so now. I tend to have a few violent sneezing attacks where snot flies everywhere :blush: It hellish walking the dogs as there is something in the field we walk in which affects me all year around. Luckily i live next to the sea, and i dont suffer as badly now as i used to.

I always have a packet of Tescos own hayfever tablets (yep Tescos) as i find they work the best and they are VERY cheap. I take one occasionally.

yuk - spoke too soon. Have madly itchy eyes and bon's trick of pebble dashing the walls with snot today....

had to a shot in the :assshake: today b/c of my hayfever...it was hot, then got really :cold: , now it's s'posed to be HOT tomorrow!! i'm glad I went today but right now I'm cranky b/c of the decradon...:angry:

Well, I've never suffered with hayfever before now, but from yesterday I've had a really bunged up nose, and watery eyes (not an attractive look).

I thought I had a cold, but Mr Figaro (who is hayfever suffer and who has not had much sympathy from me over the years) reckons that he heard on the radio this morning that it is impossible to get a cold at this time of year. If you have cold symptoms in April then its Hayfever. So, I took some antihistamines and they have done sod all.

Frankly, I think he is making it up and talking ********. I know that the last word of that sentance will be asterisked out by Hayond's filter, so I will just say that he is talking b.o.llocks.

I have a cold. I don't have hayfever.

I've never suffered, thankfully and I have every sympathy for those who do.

I've never suffered, thankfully and I have every sympathy for those who do.
What she said.

Eddie's got excema, quite possibly linked to hayfever, although he shows no signs of sneezing, just has outbreaks of spotty skin in the heat.

Tarmac the entire countryside, say I. :sun: