It's Pollen Time Again

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On this past Saturday the pollen arrived. The pollen here is not as bad as as it is in Conway but, it's pretty close. It doesn't usually bother me but, this time it's kicking my butt. I got a sore throat last night and my nose is all stuffy. Ragweed is bad around here and it's never bothered me before, now it does.

With BPH (enlarged prostate) I'm limited on allergy relief medications. I'm just going to have to tough it our for a couple of weeks.
 
@Geezer, you sure it is ragweed bothering you? Ragweed season typically doesn't start until about mid August. Most of the pollen here right now is tree pollen.
 
Chuckman said:
It's awful, I have never seen it like this, this early.
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I was thinking the same thing this morning as I started seeing it on my car. It's a good two weeks, at least early.
Chuckman said:
They are predicting a pretty massive cool down in March, winter temps, so I wonder how that will screw up spring.
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I hope not, because that will screw up A LOT of agriculture. Strawberries, peaches, and even a lot of the spring vegetables. Feb 2nd was cold and rainy and according to old lore indicates that winter is pretty much done (early spring), so maybe we'll get lucky.
 
noway2 said:
I was thinking the same thing this morning as I started seeing it on my car. It's a good two weeks, at least early.

I hope not, because that will screw up A LOT of agriculture. Strawberries, peaches, and even a lot of the spring vegetables. Feb 2nd was cold and rainy and according to old lore indicates that winter is pretty much done (early spring), so maybe we'll get lucky.
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I tried to find it to copy/paste so now of course I can't, a lot of mets calling for record cold or unseasonably cold weather starting around March 10/11/12, lasting for a week or two. Some models show favorability for significant snow.

As the zen master said, "we'll see...."
 
beamernc said:
@Geezer, you sure it is ragweed bothering you? Ragweed season typically doesn't start until about mid August. Most of the pollen here right now is tree pollen.
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Yeah, ragweed comes later. Ragweed never bothered me until I got here.
 
Maples, juniper, cypress etc have been full force here for a couple weeks and have tore my household slam up this year. Bradford pears have my place smelling horrible. My blue berries are flowering.. The pine pollen hasn’t started here yet, that I’ve seen.

As the ole timers had told me, we will have one more freeze/cold spell to push the black berries into bloom.
 
I just got back from Charleston SC. It’s already late summer there.
 
12151791 said:
Do you have post oak trees where you are? Post oaks kicked my alergy ass when il lived in Fort Worth.
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The area of Texas I'm at is called The Big Thicket. There all kinds of trees and vegetation.
 
Geezer said:
Yeah, ragweed comes later. Ragweed never bothered me until I got here.
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Interestingly, I’ve seen several examples of where someone has allergies and they move and get over them. Likewise someone who doesn’t moves and gets them.
 
well, we know what pollen actually is (to trees)...
so, when you get a face-full of pollen....
 
noway2 said:
Interestingly, I’ve seen several examples of where someone has allergies and they move and get over them. Likewise someone who doesn’t moves and gets them.
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Add me. Horrible allergies in Illinois. No so bad here. The month of March gets me, but otherwise I'm decent the rest of the year.
 
As a kid, I had debilitating allergies as a kid. Early grass (April) would get me but the beginning of august would make me seriously sick. At age 27, they just turned off. Here, around the beginning of grass season and late fall, I have a little sinus issue, but that’s about it.
 
Geezer said:
On this past Saturday the pollen arrived. The pollen here is not as bad as as it is in Conway but, it's pretty close. It doesn't usually bother me but, this time it's kicking my butt. I got a sore throat last night and my nose is all stuffy. Ragweed is bad around here and it's never bothered me before, now it does.

With BPH (enlarged prostate) I'm limited on allergy relief medications. I'm just going to have to tough it our for a couple of weeks.
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I did not know that was an issue. I've been on generic Flomax and Avodart for years, doc never said anything to me.

Pollen bothers me as well, not as bad as some, usually just itchy, watery eyes but really itchy. Bad enough I take some kind of over the counter meds.


( thread drift..............................)
 
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I’ll be glad when it’s over. It sucks having dark color vehicles. I told my wife my next one may be a lime green colored one so it would not show up as bad.
 
I remember reading some material in my immuno classes about moving and allergies.

Essentially, folks move to an area with new pollen and are yet to be sensitized, so they think "wow, no allergies here" but after a few years, their immune system becomes sensitized and the allergies flare up big time.
 
I saw a tree “sneeze” in the wind the other day here in South Charlotte. The cloud of yellow was like nothing I had seen before. It was even worse than the animated gif of the tree sneeze you see circulating online.
 
I was pumping gas today at a new car wash. I was shocked at the number of people who had driven through the wash, and were parked in the vacuum bays wiping every square inch of the their vehicles exterior like it was going to be in a car show.

Uh, folks, momma nature ain’t done yet.
 
For decades I used Allerest 12 hr until they stopped making it, I use this generic 12 hr tablet, works great.
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