I've also built up immunity to most of them. Telnase was the best until they took that drug off the market and replaced it with telfast. Claratyne was a bust, zyrtec was the only one that was actually still working before pregnancy.
Since having Sam, my allergies have been INSANE! I'm told that it has a lot to do with coming off corticosteroids used to treat my arthritis as I was on them for a couple of years going through IVF, pregnancy, post-birth RA flare, etc.
These days I'm relying on a combination of polaramine and prednisone (the evil corticosteroid!). Even with my arthritis flaring badly I only do short bursts of the steroids to help get me through. I won't go back to the long-term low-dose treatment unless I have another pregnancy.
I kept waking up with one eye absolutely swollen shut. The GP I saw for that said it's actually a really common way for allergies to present (just one eye) and that the old fashioned sedating antihistamines work much better than the more modern non-sedating ones. I suspect I've just about worn out the polaramine now. The next on the list is phenergan. Is avil more or less sedating than phenergan?
I am not sure about Avil & Phenergan and what is more sedating. Avil is pretty shocking and with phenergan being given to kids to help them sleep I would imagine they would most likely be on par. Maybe also look into the Xyzal, I am on my third day and it's been great so far. I get tingles every now but I would highly recommend it.
i know phenergan knocks me out for days, i take it when i get stung by a bee, and not only do i sleep for a day, i have a couple of days where i feel like im stoned afterwards.
other anit histermines ive had havent been as bad as the phenergan sleep wise....but then again i do only take it when i get stung, so those side effects might be the actual bee sting rathr than the drug *shrugs*
Teirae- What a shocker, I can't take a whole Avil tablet overnight anymore as I am in a drugged out haze the next day.
I have had it terribly for the past week, I mean really bad. So I finally went to refill the Rhinocort Aqueas script that my Dr gave me last year. So have dosed myself up and am feeling a little clearer already, so hopefully after taking it for a few days I will be almost hayfever free!!
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