One thing I’ve noticed this year after suffering hay fever since a child and usually starting with it towards the end of February and starting the tablets then and finishing them in October. I have had no symptoms so far this year and I’ve just realised after the stroke in September last year I didn’t take any tablets once I had the stroke. Fingers crossed it continues. I’ve heard before a stroke can alter your mechanism.
And talking with other hay fever suffers it’s been bad so far. Even walked past a oilseed rape field other day and in the past it would have driven me mad. Nothing didn’t even trigger my asthma. And again no asthma issues since the day. But yes I take my inhaler twice daily still.
@Gnasher , it’s the only thing I don’t like about late spring into the summer… hay fever!. I must get anti-histamines in. Hay fever gets worse when I’m doing the garden. From sneezing a lot to watery eyes. Oh, and making sure I don’t have an asthma attack. I need the inhaler more regularly in the hotter months.
That sounds like a good benefit to me.
I used to suffer terribly with hay fever but I don’t seem to now. I have just put it down to growing out of it. I live in the countryside & am surrounded by fields which often contain oil seed rape which was the worst thing for hay-fever. Even that hasn’t affected me recently.
Hi @Gnasher sounds very much like a blessing to me, well besides suffering a stroke. I’ve struggled with hayfever on and off for years- stopped for years when taking a herbal complex over one summer then stayed away for over decade weirdly every 2-3 years have mad flare ups but been fine the past few years with our washout Scottish summers.
Still have never understood why it comes and goes despite extensive testing never an indicator. Weird.
The brain can certainly change things for the good after a stroke. I suffered with horrendous migraines since about the age of ten up until my haemorrhage, so forty years roughly although I was probably only getting 2 or 3 a year by then.
Since my strokes I haven’t had one in 10 years and I’ve never had what I would describe as a normal headache in that period either. A welcome change to my life from a terrible event.
I seem to be experiencing the same thing, @Gnasher. Usually I’m rattling with antihistamines at this time of year, this year hardly a sign of hayfever. My TIA was February 2025, but frankly I was too much of an emotional mess to notice whether I had hayfever this time last year. But I’ll take the win if it’s gone.