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so over the past two-ish weeks, I've had weird shit happen to me. of course I was worried it was corona (like who wouldn't right now ), but I measured my temperature regularly and it's remained normal
so I googled some of the things, hayfever came up quite often. a lot of people in my family either have or had it. my brother had it since childhood, but it's become less severe over the past few years

- shit sleep, worst I've had in years (and that's saying a lot), though have had it for close to 2 months now
- cold-like symptoms, for roughly a day
- very mild headaches that would last most of the day, for a few days

and now, within the past week, something fucky has been happening with my lungs. I had a pretty bad cough for a day, and it basically "went down" my throat, and now breathing is irritating my lungs. not painful, just irritation. it's also causing me to cough a bit. and after exercise/exertion, the coughing can get really bad.
I was bagging timber for ~15 minutes, and afterwards I was panting like a motherfucker, and coughing all the time. never happened to me before

yeah I know I didn't describe shit well, but did it as best I could. of course the normal thing to do would be go see a doctor, but again, corona, don't want to do that unless things get worse ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
so, mr sexiіs that have or had hayfever, or know more about it etc, is this it? or something else?

Uhm why don't you see a doctor?

An apple a day?

Uhm why don't you see a doctor?

instead of asking Dr_

if those symptons or whatever do not hurt you and dont get to this point, you should observe the process. if it gets worse, you have to react.

but sth stealing my sleep would fuck me 200%.

I'm allergic to birch and grass pollen. I am usually having the symptoms you are describing every year around this time. If it is really hayfever, then you should experience itchy eyes, ears and nose at some point, when the immune system adjusts to it. It might possibly help if you change your bed linen and see if you experience a positive effect, also taking a shower before going to bed washes pollen out of your hair and might mitigate it a little. So if you are not getting heightened body temperature and problems with breathing, there's probably no systemic infection and no need to worry - I also got a little panicky, but everything is fine on my end.

gigeli wrote:I'm allergic to birch and grass pollen. I am usually having the symptoms you are describing every year around this time. If it is really hayfever, then you should experience itchy eyes, ears and nose at some point, when the immune system adjusts to it. It might possibly help if you change your bed linen and see if you experience a positive effect, also taking a shower before going to bed washes pollen out of your hair and might mitigate it a little. So if you are not getting heightened body temperature and problems with breathing, there's probably no systemic infection and no need to worry - I also got a little panicky, but everything is fine on my end.

haven't had itchy eyes/etc, but my scalp and body in general has been more itchy than normal. I have changed my bed sheets, haven't noticed a difference yet
showering though, can do. that's something I should have been doing anyway
been trying to call my doctor, to see if I can get a prescription for some hayfever medicine, to see if that does anything. it it does, cool, if not... confirmed corona
(have been taking some of my brother's old hayfever medicine for the past ~5 days, again haven't noticed any change yet)

thanks