Pollen allergies...what are you doing? Allowed to do?

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wallycat
wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
edited June 2014 in Complementary and Holistic Medicine and Treatment
Pollen allergies...what are you doing? Allowed to do?
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  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited March 2014

    This spring, pollen is kicking my butt!! Nasalcrom and antihistimine eye drops are working but need them more frequently.

    Has anyone tried allergy shots? Are we allowed to do allergy shots with cancer (remission)?

    Anyone tried acupuncture?

    Share your experience please! (I will cross post this on complementary area because there really is no other place to put this!)

    Thanks

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited March 2014

    wally - allergy shots will not help you in the short term.  They are desensitization injections for individual pollens that take a long time to work - I did them for about 10 years.  Also, with pollen allergies they can only desensitize you to a few things at a time, so if you are allergic to many differing types of pollen (as I was) you will still have symptoms, they just won't be as severe.  If you move to a new place, or vacation in the Spring, you will react to whatever pollen is in that location, and have to start over in the process.  I abandoned the shots because I was a military wife that was always being relocated.  I started just treating the symptoms with prescription meds and found that over time my symptoms lessened.  Is there a reason you don't want to take one of the many OTC allergy meds?  Claritin is used during chemo for Neulasta bone pain, so I would think that most oncs don't have any reason to let their allergic patients use it for allergy relief.  Good luck - I feel your pain!

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited March 2014

    Wally .. sorry to hear the spring allergies have already taken hold.  It will be allergy season here very soon.  Sometimes when mine are particularly bad I'll have my PCP give me a steroid shot.  Other times regular Benadryl helps .. luckily it doesn't make me sleepy.

    hugs,

    Bren

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  • juneping
    juneping Member Posts: 1,594
    edited March 2014

    raw local honey, acupuncture..

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  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited March 2014

    Thank you all.

    Honey is not an option for me (low carb and it would shoot my glucose into the stratosphere!)...

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  • juneping
    juneping Member Posts: 1,594
    edited March 2014

    wallycat - not even a spoon in your tea??

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  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited March 2014

    NOPE!  I wish.

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  • juneping
    juneping Member Posts: 1,594
    edited March 2014

    oh sorry....too bad. i am waiting for spring to come and see how my allergy is...fingers crossed.

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  • farmerlucy
    farmerlucy Member Posts: 3,985
    edited March 2014

    I mainly just get sinus headaches and stuffiness so I use my neti pot frequently. Occasionally I take a Claritin.

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