I get a fairly mild version of it - I'm fine at the moment though, it was worse in May.
Didn't get it at all until I moved from Bedford to Kent 15-odd years ago. I live and work in the country (no I'm not a farmer) and it's worse when I'm near fields of rapeseed (which seems to be every 2 or 3 years).
Hehe yeah rapeseed is truly the ultimate hay fever inducing horror for me, closely followed by nettles. Overall I got confirmed allergies against more than 100 different plants. I live in the city though, so it's usually not too bad. Ahh yes the wonders of civilization, and industrialization in particular.
I used to live in the middle of a load of fields, never got hayfever, even when they planted oilseed rape. But now I suffer from it. I sneezed constantly for over 2 hours the other day.
I get a fairly mild version of it - I'm fine at the moment though, it was worse in May.
Didn't get it at all until I moved from Bedford to Kent 15-odd years ago. I live and work in the country (no I'm not a farmer) and it's worse when I'm near fields of rapeseed (which seems to be every 2 or 3 years).
I doubt it was the Rapeseed, since that's a plant that requires insects to pollinate, whereas hay fever sufferers (like myself - and it's been a bad year this year) suffer from wind blown pollen.
I'm pretty bad at the moment. In fact, after waking up last Sunday with a blind spot in my left eye, and being referred to the Hospital via the opticians, I found out i'd given myself a "Posterior vitreous detachment" from blowing my nose too hard!!
I doubt it was the Rapeseed, since that's a plant that requires insects to pollinate, whereas hay fever sufferers (like myself - and it's been a bad year this year) suffer from wind blown pollen.
Most people who have problems with rapeseed react to the volatile chemicals released by the plant, not to the pollen itself. So yes, it's not exactly hay fever (which isn't a scientific term anyway), but the symptoms are very much alike.
I've had mild hayfever since i was a child, some years i get it and some i don't.
This year was fine until friday, i was really bad. My nose was constantly runny and my eyes were streaming. It's been fine since.
One of my cousins has it so bad he can't function in the summer months, he has to carry a tea towel around with him.
I do not recall having hayfever bad since i was i child bit at the moment I am feeling the effects as soon as i step out the front door in the morning,luckily i do carry cetirizine for my animal allergies when i visit people with cats,but i am taking these tabs every day now.
I doubt it was the Rapeseed, since that's a plant that requires insects to pollinate, whereas hay fever sufferers (like myself - and it's been a bad year this year) suffer from wind blown pollen.
Most people who have problems with rapeseed react to the volatile chemicals released by the plant, not to the pollen itself. So yes, it's not exactly hay fever (which isn't a scientific term anyway), but the symptoms are very much alike.
I always assumed it was hay fever, but whatever it is it's blimmin' annoying.
Ironically I woke up this morning with streaming eyes and a snotty nose for the first time in ages. No rapeseed for miles around. Perhaps Mrs Spoons is poisoning me in my sleep :-x
Professional Entertainments Manager (Ovine Division)?
:D
Baaaaaaaaaaaa-stard!
Nope I just live in a little village and work on an industrial estate a couple of miles out of the nearest small town. The only difference is there's 5 miles of fields on my way to work instead of concrete... Mrs Spoons works with schoolchildren from Hackney who come down here to learn about the countryside, and the first thing they all say is "Haven't you got any shops?" :D
I'm pretty bad at the moment. In fact, after waking up last Sunday with a blind spot in my left eye, and being referred to the Hospital via the opticians, I found out i'd given myself a "Posterior vitreous detachment" from blowing my nose too hard!!
Ouch! I would normally post a picture of Finbarr Saunders at this point but that sounds too painful to joke about!
Ouch! I would normally post a picture of Finbarr Saunders at this point but that sounds too painful to joke about!
Fnar! Fnar! It's a bit of the jelly inside your eye coming away from your retina or something. It doesn't hurt, just annoying and a bit worrying at the time.
Violent nose blowing/snotting/spraying can be dangerous!!
Fnar! Fnar! It's a bit of the jelly inside your eye coming away from your retina or something. It doesn't hurt, just annoying and a bit worrying at the time.
Violent nose blowing/snotting/spraying can be dangerous!!
I had a friend at school who detached both retinas sneezing from his hayfever, he was off school for a few days, and the left eye kept doing it occasionally. He said the first time he did it he thought he'd died, he said he sneezed and everything went black, and he said he was so scared and panicked he couldn't even hear the people around him trying to tell him he was still there.
The left eye didn't bother him in the end, everytime it happened he was just like "Oh bollox gone blind in the left eye again, off to the general".
I never got it til a few years back....this year was a bloody nightmare so went to the Drs finally and got some tips and since then it's been manageable
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Didn't get it at all until I moved from Bedford to Kent 15-odd years ago. I live and work in the country (no I'm not a farmer) and it's worse when I'm near fields of rapeseed (which seems to be every 2 or 3 years).
Combine Harvester salesman?
I doubt it was the Rapeseed, since that's a plant that requires insects to pollinate, whereas hay fever sufferers (like myself - and it's been a bad year this year) suffer from wind blown pollen.
I've always felt that Half Life should've had a boss called Combine Harvester in there somewhere...
Most people who have problems with rapeseed react to the volatile chemicals released by the plant, not to the pollen itself. So yes, it's not exactly hay fever (which isn't a scientific term anyway), but the symptoms are very much alike.
Professional Entertainments Manager (Ovine Division)?
:D
This year was fine until friday, i was really bad. My nose was constantly runny and my eyes were streaming. It's been fine since.
One of my cousins has it so bad he can't function in the summer months, he has to carry a tea towel around with him.
I always assumed it was hay fever, but whatever it is it's blimmin' annoying.
Ironically I woke up this morning with streaming eyes and a snotty nose for the first time in ages. No rapeseed for miles around. Perhaps Mrs Spoons is poisoning me in my sleep :-x
"Oi've gorra braaaand new comboine 'aaaarvesterrrr, oi'll give yewww the kaaaaaaayyyyy!" (etc)
Baaaaaaaaaaaa-stard!
Nope I just live in a little village and work on an industrial estate a couple of miles out of the nearest small town. The only difference is there's 5 miles of fields on my way to work instead of concrete... Mrs Spoons works with schoolchildren from Hackney who come down here to learn about the countryside, and the first thing they all say is "Haven't you got any shops?" :D
Ouch! I would normally post a picture of Finbarr Saunders at this point but that sounds too painful to joke about!
Fnar! Fnar! It's a bit of the jelly inside your eye coming away from your retina or something. It doesn't hurt, just annoying and a bit worrying at the time.
Violent nose blowing/snotting/spraying can be dangerous!!
I had a friend at school who detached both retinas sneezing from his hayfever, he was off school for a few days, and the left eye kept doing it occasionally. He said the first time he did it he thought he'd died, he said he sneezed and everything went black, and he said he was so scared and panicked he couldn't even hear the people around him trying to tell him he was still there.
The left eye didn't bother him in the end, everytime it happened he was just like "Oh bollox gone blind in the left eye again, off to the general".