Suffer - but not in silence?

I had asthma as a kid - eventually grew out of most of it/moved away from home. Home was rural Louisiana -- we had cows/chickens/mildew/pine trees all around. I remember being on marax back in high school for it... Nasty stuff....

As an adult I've had it a couple of times - once when I moved in to an office with mildew on the walls in SC - they had to have custodians eventually come bleach the walls to kill it and I was ok after that.

No carpets on the main and upper levels of my house. I have HEPA filters around and one Molekule filter machine that I really like as well.

I am a firm believer in the saline sinus rinse. I've been doing that daily from well over 10 years now and have not had one sinus infection since I started it. Before that, I had nasty sinus infections 3-4 times per year and seemed to be on antibiotics constantly. I use one of the bottles that you see around in every pharmacy or big box store + saline packets + distilled water. Works wonders. I do it twice per day when things are really bad... I still on occasion have to resort to half of benadryl or zyrtec but not very often.

I don't know if the sinus rinse will help you -- but in the big scheme it certainly can't hurt and has zero side effects. If you wash the goop out of your sinuses before bed that might help ? I do it every morning no matter what and in the evenings as needed.

Being exercise induced really sucks!

Hi on this I have dealt with all my like its got so bad in collage I kept getting sinus infections so I got the allergy testing all up and down my back. I was allergic to mold, dust and cattle hair. The first thing done was to purify my bedroom: carpets gone because of dust. bed in cased in plastic and pillow too for dust elimination. All book binding have mold so no books in room, had to stay out of libraries at school except the art library-- all books were in an enclosed air handling area away from where I studied. had to stop drinking fermented drinks Still it would not go away but it was still there. I could not figure it out until one day my class window was open and a storm approached the wind blew and my nose literally closed up. Two miles away was the Agricultural section of the school with the bovine and dairy barn! I had a year to go and the shots take a year or two to work. They put me on Iso-clour (sp?) It really cleared everything up. I took it for two years but started to get really wired so I stopped taking it. What it was, was a 12 hour long acting Sudafed compound! I started withdrawal symptoms! I had also been drinking about a quart of coffee a day too. No wonder I finished with a 3.5 I was speeding and did not know it. It took a year to get semi normal again. after I left the school things got better gradually. Be careful and ask lots of questions when doctors prescribe is the lesson learned!

Trial and error

Have you tried local honey for your allergies?