March 20, 20205 yr Author At this point, Texas officials should consider a shelter in place just for the oak pollen for the next few weeks. Check out the dark blue line on the chart; it is following the yellow and green lines of the last 2 years, as opposed to the previous 2 years. Maybe it was El Nino, I don't know. Anyway, we're fucked.
March 21, 20205 yr 10 hours ago, austingirl said: Anyone else miserable today? Mold and oak, maybe? Yes. This front blew some bad juju into the air.
March 21, 20205 yr Whole family having horrible allergies in the last 48 hours. 2020 is not a good year to have allergies....
March 21, 20205 yr No shit, the side eye I get for sneezing and blowing my nose in a normal year is bad enough. I guess the counterpoint is that I'm barely around people anymore.
March 21, 20205 yr My spouse had to use his inhaler last night. I'm really worried about his lungs since he is required to go to work and we have positive community spread COVID cases. I would like to reboot 2020 please.
March 21, 20205 yr 13 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said: My spouse had to use his inhaler last night. I'm really worried about his lungs since he is required to go to work and we have positive community spread COVID cases. I would like to reboot 2020 please. It's bad for sure. I have developed cedar, ragweed, and now oak allergies. The only relief I get is when temps are 97+. Sigh
March 21, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, Mrs Whiggins said: My spouse had to use his inhaler last night. I'm really worried about his lungs since he is required to go to work and we have positive community spread COVID cases. I would like to reboot 2020 please. The positive side to allergies is that people with allergies have very active immune systems. I rotate clariten and zyrtec every 12 hours and do flonase at night so I can sleep. It works.
March 27, 20205 yr just came to do a (drive-by) to see what the Surly MD's were saying about allergies.....my eyes were stuck together this morning.............
March 27, 20205 yr Back of my throat was on fire the moment I woke up. Thought I was getting sick. So glad (kinda, but not really) to see this thread bumped.
March 27, 20205 yr I am outside all the time (covered up because cancer) and I rarely have allergies. I think my immune system just said fuggedaboudit after so many years. This season, my immune system is woke. I don't know how y'all stand this daily torture of sneeze, snot, and cementhead.
March 27, 20205 yr 5 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said: sneeze, snot, and cementhead. check, check, and check 4 minutes ago, miguelito said: sandpaper on the inside of your eyelids. check
March 27, 20205 yr My spouse has had them for years and Texas is undoubtedly the worst for them. I do the yard work so he doesn't have to suffer out there, and when I can't do it any longer we will use a service. (It's a good leg and arm workout.) He doesn't complain, but boy howdy I do NOT know how he is able to keep a coherent thought in his head when every one of my gray cells is probably covered in a pale green dusting of pollen.
March 27, 20205 yr staying on flonase religiously has helped a ton. now added a 12-hour allegra in the morning and will probably end the day with a benedryl before bed.
March 27, 20205 yr Nothing like a sinus infection brought on by this shit, and the resulting fever/cough/etc. to get your mind spinning into some dark places these days.
March 27, 20205 yr i have a stye in my right eye brought on by allergies. what a shitty time to be alive. Edited March 27, 20205 yr by crash_davis
March 27, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, Samson's Wig said: Nothing like a sinus infection brought on by this shit, and the resulting fever/cough/etc. to get your mind spinning into some dark places these days. I’m right there with you, I was convinced I had the corona last night. My nose was so stopped up that I was having trouble tasting and smelling food. Watching everyone else enjoy the cookies that my wife baked last night was a real low point for me.
March 28, 20205 yr 11 hours ago, miguelito said: Don't forget sandpaper on the inside of your eyelids. I have a covid test pending so I'm only leaving my apartment for a couple of minutes a day to let the dog out and do his thing. This shit hits within 30 seconds of going outdoors. Lasts for hours. Worse than any of the flu-like symptoms I've had thus far. Fuck this shit.
March 28, 20205 yr mowed the yard yesterday and my eyes burned and watered like i was cutting a damn onion. if i go outside more than 5 minutes today, I'm effin toast
March 29, 20205 yr Author On 3/27/2020 at 8:03 PM, gmr548 said: This shit hits within 30 seconds of going outdoors. Lasts for hours. Man, this is the truth right here. If only the allergy drugs were that good. "Acts immediately!! Long-lasting!!!" 3rd day in a row of over 20,000.
March 30, 20205 yr Author More stats, because I know you like them. The last 5 days have all been above 23,000. The 5-day total is over 136,000. Yearly totals the last few years have been between 170,000 and 212,000. We are at 166,600 for the year so far, with 2-3 weeks to go. Here's a graph of this year's count, projected to the end of the season:
March 30, 20205 yr What site do you use for the daily counts? I have found KVUE in KXAN to be too unreliable.
March 30, 20205 yr Author I'm in San Antonio, so I use KSAT's weather page or twitter. Sometimes I have to go to WOAI's page. I don't know what the original source is. It used to be Dr Ratner, but he died. https://twitter.com/ksatweather?lang=en But KSAT has my favorite meteorologists. Edited March 30, 20205 yr by miguelito
March 30, 20205 yr I'm sniffling like my dog just died. This shit is crushing me. 4 minutes ago, miguelito said: I'm in San Antonio, so I use KSAT's weather page or twitter. Sometimes I have to go to WOAI's page. I don't know what the original source is. It used to be Dr Ratner, but he died. https://twitter.com/ksatweather?lang=en But KSAT has my favorite meteorologists. that hurricane is a category 10
March 30, 20205 yr Today I've had a god-awful sinus headache since about 9 am. I'm wearing sunglasses indoors because every light is too bright. I'm about ready to just burn everything down and go live in a bunker till the end of days. Which, by the looks of it, isn't far off anyway.
March 31, 20205 yr Yesterday was the first day in 10 days that my back was well enough to let me sit somewhat comfortably. I made the mistake of using that as an excuse to hang out on the patio for 4 hours. Kill me.
March 31, 20205 yr On 3/27/2020 at 8:52 AM, miguelito said: Don't forget sandpaper on the inside of your eyelids. My eyes have been like that since cataract surgery in January.
March 31, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, Deej said: Yesterday was the first day in 10 days that my back was well enough to let me sit somewhat comfortably. I made the mistake of using that as an excuse to hang out on the patio for 4 hours. Kill me. Right? That's the worst part. Cedar ends, the weather gets gorgeous, and we still can't enjoy our decks and patios without suffering.
March 31, 20205 yr Thankful for the rain today to knock the pollen back. It had reached full blizzard here.
March 31, 20205 yr Let's hope the oak pollen will bind with the COVID-19 and neutralize it. Or maybe act like a barrier to infection by coating our nasal passages and interior lung surfaces...
April 1, 20205 yr Took a work call on the patio this morning for about 30 mins. Fuck me. I'm in full on meltdown. Claratin did nothing.
May 7, 20205 yr Author Oak is done, if you haven't noticed. Mold and grass and some other trees are taking over, but nothing like the mighty oak. The total count was less than last year, but above average over the last 5 years. 2020 had the highest single day count in the last 5 years, at 30,900. Here's the final chart. You can see that this year was really one big ass blast in the middle, and then a sharp drop to modest levels: See you all in ragweed season, if my sinus infection or the corona don't kill us all first.
August 19, 20205 yr I am having a hell of a time today - constantly watering eyes, stuffiness, sneezing. KVUE says mold is high which is just a bitch since we haven't even gotten the benefit of rain lately.
August 19, 20205 yr 2 minutes ago, austingirl said: I am having a hell of a time today - constantly watering eyes, stuffiness, sneezing. KVUE says mold is high which is just a bitch since we haven't even gotten the benefit of rain lately. As a lifelong allergy sufferer, I can relate...could even be considered a canary in the coal mine. It started on Monday for me: sinus headache, congestion, sneezing, itchy/watery eyes.
August 19, 20205 yr I was actually joking with someone just yesterday over the phone about how it sounds like I have almost all the symptoms.
August 19, 20205 yr 41 minutes ago, austingirl said: I am having a hell of a time today - constantly watering eyes, stuffiness, sneezing. KVUE says mold is high which is just a bitch since we haven't even gotten the benefit of rain lately. yep, same. eyes starting watering something fierce last night out of the blue
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