Allergies :(
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Mon May 07, 2007 10:20 pm

I live in Sacramento and this place is horrible for allergies. All the mediciation I take never works and it makes me drowsy.

All it takes is a simple walk from my house to my driveway and I'm sneezing!

I wish I could stay inside all day!

free skin care · Mon May 07, 2007 10:37 pm

i'm sorry. i don't have it as bad as you but i know how you feel. you've tried all medications even the RX kind and it doesn't work?

free skin care · Tue May 08, 2007 4:39 am

Hi Pika.

I am just about to order some black cumin seed oil, which has a reputation for being very helpful for alleviating allergies. If you do a search on it you will find some great information about it, in the Candida Recovery thread.

I have been taking MSM and Vit C lately, which has helped enormously with my allergy to my cat. It has meant that I dont need to take antihistamines! there is a long and informative thread here about MSM. Search and you will find it!

Good Luck!

free skin care · Tue May 08, 2007 8:16 am

Non-drowsy sudafed, honey.

free skin care · Tue May 08, 2007 8:20 am

I have tried every antihistamine out there, but Arius has worked the best for me.

free skin care · Tue May 08, 2007 8:27 am

Echinacea-Golden Seal Whole Herb Complex. Highly effective, inexpensive and works fast (usually within an hour for me). I get Spring Valley brand from Wal-Mart.

hth

A

free skin care · Tue May 08, 2007 11:24 am

Yeah ... allergies have "bloomed" around here too. I'm generally on antihistamines of some sort from May through to the first frost! Crying or Very sad

However, early in the season I usually take quite a lot of Vitamin C ... a natural antihistamine. I find that it works quite well for the early allergies.

By the time I need a 24 hour antihistamine, I still take more Vitamin C ... but I also take whatever is working for me.

I recently learned something interesting about Arius just as a matter of interest.

It's outrageously expensive in Canada ... and I asked the pharmacist if there wasn't a generic for it. [My son had been prescribed the Arius but without a drug plan, he was finding it too expensive to continue.] It turns out that there isn't yet ... and a generic is still a few years off.

HOWEVER, apparently when you take Claritin, it breaks down into 3 separate elements. Arius is one of those elements. So ... the pharmacist said that for some people, Claritin worked just as well as Arius ... and there IS a generic for Claritin.

So far the generic Claritin is working for my son ... and I've found that the generic one is fine for me as well.

I tried Arius last year but wasn't overly impressed. It didn't work any better ... or any worse for me than any of the others. Sad

Of course, over the season, I find that I have to switch from one brand to another. I seem to get "immune" to one ... but if I switch between brands I'm usually okay.

HTH

Mary

free skin care · Tue May 08, 2007 12:08 pm

allergies is hard to get rid of, just can be controlled by medicine.I dont want to say that, but it is true!

free skin care · Tue May 08, 2007 12:14 pm

Pika, what kinds of allergy medication have you tried but realized they were not working for you?

free skin care · Tue May 08, 2007 1:25 pm

zirtek with decongestant! Sad

Nothing else works. Hate allergies.

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