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    Seasonal Allergies

    Not quite sure where to post this but am really curios.

    I have been a Hay Fever sufferer my whole life. I usually take Allegra, Fluticasone, eyedrops, and get a shot. I have them bad! I'm non-functioning and miserable if I don't take this stuff.

    I've read conflicting reports on if antihistamines exacerbate MS symptoms. Thoughts?

    Those of you who are also sneezing like mad with the budding of the trees, what do you do? (This is my first spring since dx)

    #2
    I take Singulair, Clarinex D, 2 nasal inhalers, and an asthma inhaler. I never read anything about antihistamines and relapses. But I take my allergy meds year round and haven't have a problem.

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      #3
      I also have seasonal allergies. I take Claritin or Claritin D. I don't know anything about antihistamines causing a problem in people with MS. I also get allergy shots and have been for a few years so my allergies are much better than they used to be.
      Lori
      Betaseron 2004-2009, Tysabri 2010-2011, Copaxone 2012-2013, Tecfidera 2013...

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        #4
        I usually use Allegra and a prescription nasal spray. My allergies are not "seasonal" as I have been known to have allergy symptoms year round...sometimes

        I've read conflicting reports on if antihistamines exacerbate MS symptoms
        I'm not sure where you are getting that information but to the best of my knowledge and years of using allergy medications, this is not true.
        Diagnosed 1984
        “Lightworkers aren’t here to avoid the darkness…they are here to transform the darkness through the illuminating power of love.” Muses from a mystic

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          #5
          It isn't pretty, but I flush saline/water up my nostrils. My allergy doc said to do it morning and night. Drugs dry me out...especially my eyeballs!
          Tawanda
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          Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis 2004; First sign of trouble: 1994

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            #6
            I swear I read it yesterday and now can't find anything to back that up! False alarm.

            I'm glad though, I would not be able to survive without Allegra, Fluticasone, and eye drops. I have sneezed every day of my life, seriously, so mine are not JUST seasonal but when the trees bud in the spring, corn pollenates in the summer and ragweed does in thing in the fall, I am exceptionally miserable.

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              #7
              I've had 'seasonal' allergies for the last 30 years of my life and just discovered for some totally unknown reason that if I don't eat potatoes in the spring/early summer, I don't get allergies. I went years of being so bad that I ended up either getting a steroid injection or taking steroid tablets and now, don't need anything.

              The potatoes don't even have to be new ones before I'm sneezing, eyes watering and the whole hay fever thing. Weird or what??

              Poppy

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