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?

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