You can cure many allergies with exposure therapy. I’m surprised nobody mentioned it.

Bilastine and corticosteroid nasal spray for me. During the easier periods I can live on bilastine alone. If neither work then reduce exposure immediately, and if that doesn’t help either, then make peace and wait for the sweet release of death.

For me, i found that when the pressure in my head gets extremely bad from blowing my nose constantly, laying down for a few hours helps.

I wear headphones, so I think it traps the pressure inside. Therefore, I lay down without wearing them. (IDK if that’s true or not)

Most meds for me don’t help, but the Flonase nasal spray I’ve seen people mention does help.

I haven’t found an oral medication that works. Tried a nasal spray (Flonase) and felt immediate relief.

Probably not a common solution but I stopped taking all my antihistamines. It sucked for a little bit but I’m not having allergies very much anymore.

I always start with nasal irrigation. For most of the year, nasal irrigation has eliminated my medication usage for allergies.

When it’s not enough, I use flonase, but I think my sinuses mainly get irritated with prolonged exposure. Rinsing the pollen out has helped dramatically

Cetirizine works like a charm for me, I only take if I start to have symptoms and I may be lucky because I’ve never felt any of the listed side effects.

Yo! Eat local honey! The same stuff that is making you miserable also makes happiness. And, by eating the honey, you ingest the pollen and build immunity to it. If it doesn’t work, you’ve still eaten honey and that doesn’t suck.

Antihistamines help for a short time. Local honey may help, (traces of pollen in the honey is thought to get recognized by the immune system and prevents it from treating it as an invader.

Long term, reducing your exposure to the allergen will gradually see your allergy lessen. I had an allergy to grass pollen that went away entirely in time. I developed it as a dumbass kid when I collected a handful of pollen then rubbed my eye. It was bad, and lasted for over ten years.

Get real cloth handkerchiefs.
It won’t rub your nose and upper lips raw.

First, reduce your exposure to pollen, windows and doors closed during the summer and get an air purifier to clean the pollen out.

Second, eyedrops and nasal spray, and normal eye drops work, they’re just to wash the pollen out of your eyes. A steroid nasal spray really does work incredibly well to reduce immediate symptoms, Beclometasone is the active ingredient in the one I use.

Third, medication. I rarely need extra medication but my partner suffers much worse than me and uses it more. Fexofenadine based is the most effective pills we’ve found.

I snort anti-histamines.

I’m only half joking. Pills did nothing for me.

But nasal sprays and eye drops give almost immediate relief. When it’s particularly bad I will ask the pharmacists for two types, as “doubling up” on different active ingredients can allow for increased potency. Though that is something you should absolutely ask the pharmacist for a recommendation on, as combining any two isn’t necesserily effective, or safe.

If pills work for you, but don’t quite get it done, you can combine those with drops/spray too. Again, consult a pharmacist. Just tell them what you’ve tried, and ask for a recommendation on how to get a bit more potency.

For me, stuff that you apply directly is so much more potent, and I only tried it because a pharmacist recommended it when I said none of the pills seem to help me. It was night and day.

With the nose, it’s a little tricky if it has already become stuffed. Try to clear out as much as possible, before using the spray, then let it sit for as long as you can bear. Once it starts taking effect, you really want to keep using the spray before your nose starts reacting, so it actually reaches the mucus membranes, and doesn’t just hit mucus, only to be blown back out.

If you can clear out your nose by flushing your sinuses first, even better.

Another bonus of taking anti histamines this way is that it doesn’t make you as drowsy, as it’s applied much more locally. Though this varies. Some of the antihistamine in drops and nasal spray will still make it into the blood stream.

Medicines.

Suffer.

I took allergy shots for years, and I’m still doubled up on prescription and OTC meds daily. It’s not perfect, but it’s manageable now. So…

Suffer Be inconvenienced.

Xyzal