Looks like an extra-long allergy season this year

[nickinSTL]

Thanks to this mild winter and early spring, I've been sick since January, mostly due to allergies.

Time to contact my allergist, as I've had enough of dealing with the cough, repeated cold-like symptoms and sinus headaches.

Currently, it feels like I'm being stabbed in the sinuses just under my left eye, and also like I need to floss my teeth on that side...a feeling that morphs into pain like I've been punched in the jaw if I cough. Mercifully, the coughing is currently pretty minimal.

Ugh.

[femmocrat]

1. I'm sneezing like a fool and have itchy eyes.

The buds are out on the trees very early this year. And it's going to be unseasonably warm all this week.... ugh, more pollen.

[nickinSTL]

2. We started having high pollen alerts

in February. Tree pollen, so far. Last I checked, juniper was the highest.

Went to the zoo Friday and saw a lot of trees and flowers beginning to bloom already.

And it's supposed to be in the mid-70s here, so more unseasonably warm weather here as well.

I'm ready for summer already...and I hate summer, I much prefer cooler weather, but I'm getting sick all spring, every spring around here.

[pipi_k]

3. Boy, you're not kidding!

It's been pretty mild here too in Western Mass, and my allergies have been a real pain. Usually I get a break during the winter. Not this year.

It fluctuates between wet and warm (leaf mold) to dry and dusty (dust and whatever else is flying around outside).

Plus there were some loggers down the road stirring up the soil and sawing wood and it was all blowing up here on the West wind.

I've been doing nasal rinsing twice (sometimes more) a day just to get rid of the crap. Some days I just want to pluck my eyeballs out and rub them on sandpaper to stop the itching.

[nickinSTL]

4. I keep forgetting to rinse

Last time I had an allergy test, they told me I was allergic to mold and roaches.

Ok, this area tends to have a really high mold count much of the year, that's understandable.

However, right now, mold is low. And I'm pretty sure we don't have a roach infestation, so...

Pretty sure I'm allergic to one of the tree species that's pollinating now.

As long as I don't develop a grass allergy. That would suck, seeing as my wife is very allergic to grass, and I have to mow the lawn.

Which I'll be doing soon, the way things are going. Mostly just onion grass growing at the moment, but with these high temps, the actual grass (or other weeds in our yard that provide green ground cover, anyway) will be growing any minute now.

[HopeHoops]

5. Yep - I've been packed up for weeks. The daffodils and crocus are already up. Weird shit.