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Afternoon all,
I haven't seen the annual hayfever thread yet? Anyway.... this year has been pretty horiffic so far. I've toyed with the idea of having the injection previously but the long list of pretty worrying side effects has put me off in the past. Until this morning that is. I'm not dead yet and had a shringe full of the stuff injected into my bottom a few hours ago.
Anyone else had this? I've read loads of good stories online of people singing it's praises but haven't yet read anything about anyone suffering from side effects.
I've tried every over the counter product there is and nothing is touching it this year. I'd say I suffer at the bad end of the scale. Up until recently, I've been riding 6-7 days a week but haven't been out since Tuesday and feel abolutely floored / flu like / terrible cold like symptoms. It really is debilitating.
Agreed - it has been awful this year. I'm on steroids up the nose and it's ok but I still get hayfever related conjuntivitus and can't keep my contact lenses in all day. I didn't know there was a jab to deal with it instead. Is it one jab for the year? Sounds ideal.
I had Kenalog once, only side effect I had was wanting to crash out for a day or two.
I thought the hay fever injection was not offered so much now? ie a medical reason why it wasn’t prescribed
Yep, one dose (2 in extreme cases) are supposed to last between 5 months and up to 3 years in some cases. I'll report back in a week! It's supposed to completely erradicate symptoms, or at least 95% of them. You can continue taking normal medication too if you wish.
Cost me £95 but appears to be available for around £50-60 at most places. I should have looked harder!
So I'm told there's 2 reasons why it's no longer offered on the NHS:
- Cost, especially now more and more people are requesting it.
- Side effects, which seem to be few and far between but the list is a little unsettling!
"Kenacort, though, was the only one you took and three days later you looked different.
“I remember it was one of the reasons I took sleeping pills because Kenacort put you on this weird high. It’s quite scary because it’s catabolic so it’s eating into you. It felt destructive. It felt powerful.”
says David Millar...
I'd be interested to know if any of that bears any relation to what happens when a normal person who isn't also taking PEDs uses it.
So I’m told there’s 2 reasons why it’s no longer offered on the NHS:
The NHS don’t stop providing treatment because something is expensive. They might stop providing something is expensive given the limited clinical effectiveness.
From what I recall that’s the reason it’s not a treatment. + you are taking steroid which is not good for you.
I went through immunotherapy....weekly/monthly alergen injections over a course of 3 years. I was terrible at keeping myself up to date with my maintainance dose so had to keep building back up.
I had really bad hayfever and fruit allergies. Bad to the point where an over ripe apple/banana/avocado/melon would make my chest tight, ear canals itch and throat start to get tight. A walk in the fields make me wheezy and want to tear my eyes out .. mostly fixed now though!!
Little to no side effects beyond an extra antihysthamine tablet if I pushed the jump in dosage and reacted to the allergens.
YMMV
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Well it’s only been 8 hours or so since the injection. No limbs have fallen off yet but more importantly, I appear to be sat in the garden completely symptom free!!!!
Going to go for a spin on the bike around the woods for an hour or so soon. Had I done that yesterday I’d be crippled for the rest of the evening into the next day.
This weekend should be a proper test I guess but so far so good.