Hmm. It's been a while now - I did allergy shots as a teenager, and I'm now in my early thirties, so the details escape me. I can definitely say that I had chronic sinus infections before I started allergy shots, and I have had NO sinus infections in the 15-ish years since. For that alone, the shots were worth it!
Another thing that happened is that for a few years, when the grass pollen count was really high, I reacted to that particularly which I had not done previously. I am allergic to a whole slew of pollens in my area (like you, it sounds like - and I should add that despite having moved around for college and grad school I am now living in the town I grew up in again, so I'm back where my allergy shots were targeted for, yay!). I think the allergy shots were effective at reducing my response to tree pollen significantly, but that may also have had the effect of making my response to grass pollen stand out. Like you, I am also very allergic to timothy grass - and I have the bad luck to live in the county next to the county that calls itself the "grass seed capital of the world," so there are a lot of fields of grass including timothy in my general area.
Anyway, what this ramble-y reflection is getting at is that I think I am less reactive now to trees and dust mites, and that it's hard to say how much reduction there was to grass. In a high pollen count spring/early summer I have miserably itchy eyes, but so do people who don't normally report grass allergies, so perhaps the allergy shots were effective at taking that response down to normal if not nil.
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Date: 2014-02-22 04:39 pm (UTC)Another thing that happened is that for a few years, when the grass pollen count was really high, I reacted to that particularly which I had not done previously. I am allergic to a whole slew of pollens in my area (like you, it sounds like - and I should add that despite having moved around for college and grad school I am now living in the town I grew up in again, so I'm back where my allergy shots were targeted for, yay!). I think the allergy shots were effective at reducing my response to tree pollen significantly, but that may also have had the effect of making my response to grass pollen stand out. Like you, I am also very allergic to timothy grass - and I have the bad luck to live in the county next to the county that calls itself the "grass seed capital of the world," so there are a lot of fields of grass including timothy in my general area.
Anyway, what this ramble-y reflection is getting at is that I think I am less reactive now to trees and dust mites, and that it's hard to say how much reduction there was to grass. In a high pollen count spring/early summer I have miserably itchy eyes, but so do people who don't normally report grass allergies, so perhaps the allergy shots were effective at taking that response down to normal if not nil.