Does hayfever affect your golf?

[Perry]

Anyone suffer from hayfever?

I get it quite bad and can already feel it starting this year, normally from late March right through to September I get it. Totally wastes the summer for me.

I've only been playing golf less than a year so it wasn't too bad last year but getting the feeling its going to affect me big style this year. I'm on the verge of joining my first club but this is at the back of my mind.
Even considering playing with a scarf/snood covering my mouth and nose with sunglasses on :mmm:

So does anyone else suffer badly and how do you deal with it?


Perry

 

[USER1999]

I used to get it pretty badly, but over the years it has faded, and I only really get it for about 3 weeks now. Even at it's worst, I used to be mainly ok out on the course, but get it really badly in the club house afterwards. Go figure.

 

[john0]

I must admit that hayfever does have a big impact on my golf as I get really irritated with people sniffing and sneezing all the time

 

[sydney greenstreet]

I use Zirtec so that seems to solve it.

 

[Curls]

I never had it until moving to the UK a few years ago, something different in the air around these parts! Tried all the over-the-counter antihistamines but none worked then tried an anti-allergy nasal spray (along the lines of Piritese (sic), orange bottle), amazed at how quickly it went and stayed away.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

Yes and it's quite bad.

I take ceterizine(sp) and wear sunglasses as they help a lot. I spoke with my doctor an she recommended I start taking the tablets around January to try get It in my system earlier.

I wear Oakley flak jackets and they fit sound.

 

[USER1999]

I have always found that the nasal sprays cause me to have monster nose bleeds. I'd rather have hay fever.

Wrap around sunnies do help with the itchy eyes though.

 

[bluewolf]

I never had hayfever until 2003, when it flared up quite badly. I spent 3-5 years struggling with it every summer and it badly affected my golf for at least a month every year. Over the last 4-5 years, its gradually subsided to the point that I only just notice it now. One thing I did learn is that there is a lot of money to be made in branded hayfever medication. Nasal spray, eye drops, tablets etc. I was spending £20-30 a week on it. Then my Pharmacist recommended trying the bog standard cetirizine or Loratadyne tablets. They did exactly the same job, but cost about a tenner a month.

If you're expecting to suffer anytime soon, then start on them now and couple them with sunglasses whenever you're outside. Also be aware that the worst times of the day are Morning and Dusk...

Hope you find a way of coping with it mate..

 

[Brookesy]

Starting noticing it alot more the last few years, hopefully it doesnt get worse this year but last year was very annoying.

Does affect my golf as makes me feel like crap but may look at taking stuff to combat it if it gets bad this year.

 

[Yerman]

I never had it until moving to the UK a few years ago, something different in the air around these parts! Tried all the over-the-counter antihistamines but none worked then tried an anti-allergy nasal spray (along the lines of Piritese (sic), orange bottle), amazed at how quickly it went and stayed away.

+1 Good sniff every night through the summer and no problems

 

[In_The_Rough]

I don't suffer with it at all but my Dad is the worst and when he starts sneezing that is it, we had to wave 3 groups through once because he could stop sneezing over 40 he blasted out then he needed a few mins to get his energy back!!

 

[connor]

I suffer really bad generally between late may an July. I take tablets and nose spray and still suffer I also "borrow" eye washes from work as I fund it cools my eyes down. I also have to sleep my sunnies in at all times which helps. No rest bite from it either as if I'm not playig golf my job is outside haha

 

[HughJars]

Have all you sufferers never heard of medicine?

I use Cetrizine and I then get nothing at all, superb. Was also using the nasal spray for a while, but a bit like Murph, it was stripping my nasal walls and if I blew my nose it was bloody.

 

[Perry]

Thanks all for the responses.

I do wear wrap around sunglasses as much as possible and use eye drops which seems to reduce the itchy eyes etc

I don't use nasal sprays as for me they just do not work, anytime i have used them it makes me worse...nose = waterfall.

I have also tried loads of different antihistamines, Clarityn did work but they have stopped supplying it in my area (cost i presume). Last year I was on the strongest antihistamine the doc could give me along with steroids (which they have given me the last 3 years, still no major relief.

So yes HughJars I have "heard of medicine"....unfortunately we are all different and suffer at different levels.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

I get it pretty badly at the start of the year but it normally dies down by august.

For the last 5 or 6 years I've started taking tablets from the end of February which seems to help keep it under control.

 

[joer422]

i use zirtek just take it before you go out or bring tablets and as soon as you feel it coming on take it.
If its really bad go to your doctor they give you a prescription that i got basically it has trace amounts of pollen to build up your resistance works like a charm

 

[Captainron]

Reading all this I am so happy that (thus far) I have never suffered from Hayfever. Sounds like a right old pain in the backside. Hope thee remedies reccommended here help it mate.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I've started getting it a little, certainly there is more irritation than I can remember but a piriton before I play seems to keep it in check. Hopefully it won't get any worse as I become more decrepid

 

[Heidi]

oh sweet lord yes
i forgot that hayfever season was almost with us...sob
ok - sunglasses are a defo, as is haymax - a gel you spread on your nose to stop the pollon getting in!
hayfever tablets, eye drops, whisky, nasal spray, tissues, ice pops and hopi ear candles

the whisky is purely to make me feel happier
the ice pops cool down the back of the throat
the ear candles are possibly the most contraversial - i go for 2 or 3 hopi ear candle treatments and it seems to alleviate a lot of the symptoms! basically a therapist sticks candles in your ears, they pull the wax out and help unblock your sinuses and stop hayfever being such a bloody nuisance

http://www.hopi-earcandle.co.uk/

 

[Pants]

the whisky is purely to make me feel happier
the ice pops cool down the back of the throat
the ear candles are possibly the most contraversial - basically a therapist sticks candles in your ears, they pull the wax out ..........

I've heard about some (ahem) practices in my time, but this is a new one on me Miss Whiplash :mmm::mmm: