Re: Hay Fever
ManxiemadIt's something people can actually learn to live with and isn't that debilitating
It's like having a permanent cold without the sore throat/headaches
Some days are better than others. A day at the seaside can be quite theraputic
Sorry premature posting.
I fundamentally disagree, hayfever can be very debilitating. I suffered from it for 30 years from 15 to 45 and there were times when it really depressed me. It can drain you completely and suck the whole life out of you, endless sleepless nights, no taste or smell for weeks, constant sneezing, itching eyes that won’t go away, constant congestion. It can grind you down, I’ve been there.
It pales in comparison to asthma however although there are variants in the degree of severity of asthma too but asthma is far more scary and dangerous.
I had terrible hayfever as a teenager but it kind of went away once I began drinking at college/university and was replaced by asthma. I've had hayfever back again the last ten years or so but it's fairly mild although the length of the hayfever season seems to have grown to most of spring, summer and autumn for me. When I was a child there were distinct pollen seasons. I had it bad spring and early summer whereas my dad tended to get it worse in late summer with the grass pollen. It's all year round for me now especially 2018 and 2019 where I seemed to have it all through the winter too although they may have been colds