I can't take it anymore - what should I ask for?

[Runes911]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
100 miles? i don't know how the shots work but wouldn't you just get a needle and a bottle of stuff that should last a while? i admit i'm completely ignorant on the topic but i can't imagine the most prohibitive aspect of the shots would be proximity to a distribution center.

Gas 4.00 a gallon. Time off work.

i agree that if it were 100 miles away it would make no sense. i just thought you could give them to yourself instead of having a clinic do it.

You shouldn't give them to yourself because of the risk of a serious reaction to the shot. You're being injected with things you are allergic to. You need to be at a doctor's office where they can deal with things like anaphylactic shock. You don't want to have your throat swell shut and die.

In addition, they make up dilutions of increasing strength, and give you increasing amounts of each one until you move up to the next dilution. You don't just get the same thing each week. They keep track of what you got last time and your reaction to it, and use that the next time to decide what you get.

I've done them. 6 months then you can do them at home.

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
that weekly shot thing? there was another thread about the OP having to get shots every week. after 2 years he's allergy free. i think that's what he said.

EDIT: here you go

This

Did 4 years for me and I used to be allergic to anything that grows. Now I am 90% cured, except dust which I never had shots for.

Only time my allergies act up really bad is if im out in a forest in springtime.

 

[Platypus]

allegra

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Your doctor should give you samples for a few different allergy medicines so you can try each out and find the one that works for you.

 

[episodic]

People on Nasonex or Flonase - did you have the weight 'gain' side effect? I'm trying to loose weight now and I am already rather large.

 

[rezinn]

Most doctors have something like 20 drugs they like to prescribe and you're not likely to get anything else unless they fail. They're also influenced by the reps that come around with new allergy meds every month. So going to them with recommendations is fine.

I was on flonase for a couple years and didn't have any side effects like that which I can recall.

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: episodic
People on Nasonex or Flonase - did you have the weight 'gain' side effect? I'm trying to loose weight now and I am already rather large.

Pssst: Astelin FTW.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: tefleming

Originally posted by: episodic
I was using the generic loratadine (claritin). Don't think there is a generiz Zyrtec yet.

Allergy shots are problematic. I live 100 miles from where I'd have to drive back and forth for a while to get tested, etc. Huge expensive pain for me. Anything else 'prescription' wise that I can ask for that works?

Flonase anyone? Singular. . .? What?

They do make a generic Zyrtec.

I'm using Fexofenadine (generic Allegra 180) and Fluticasone Propionate (generic Flonase).

Between those two, I'm usually pretty good. I've recently added Astelin to the mix (only periodically for congestion).

I didn't think that Allegra had a generic yet. Are you in the US?

When I was on Allegra, it was the generic kind. It did the job very well.

 

[lightstar]

astelin & nasonex nose sprays, durahist- antihistamine, steroid as shot or pills

 

[Chunkee]

synthetic glucocorticoids FTW