I. Hate. Ragweed.

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I believe everyone is entitled to a good whinge every once and awhile, so this is mine:

I. HATE. RAGWEED. Yes, it's ragweed season here in Arkansas, and I'm typing between sneezing and coughing fits.

Last year, I was blessedly allergy-free, but I attribute that to having to wear a mask while out and about. Now, I'm fully vaxxed and on the attack, so no more masks for this non-binary entity. Unfortunately, that means I'm getting slammed in the face by pollen.

Think I'm gonna take a bit of a break from WP while being beset by the flora from Hell.

How about the rest of you peeps? Got some seemingly insignificant thing bugging you that you wanna have a good whinge about? Feel free to post it here.

We start getting ragweed in September in NY.

My wife gets bad allergies, too.

Perhaps you could put the mask back on if it is more beneficial wearing one. I was lucky in that I am not allergic to anything that I know of. I don't have anything to complain about to add to the conversation. Take care during your break from WP.

You and me both, XFG

Me too.

Take care of yourself.

You can make yourself immune to it by eating a very small amount of it in several doses.It’s best to do this before it started sending out pollen.You eat the flowering tips before they open.You can pack them in a gelcap if the idea of chewing it sounds too unpalatable.

When the Santa Ana winds blow down from the desert, they carry all that dust, pollen, and dried lizard sh*t from the desert into the coastal areas.  Thanks (?) to covid, I wore a mask through all of the Santa Ana wind events last year and did not suffer at all.

I think masks are a good idea, whether to fight virii or allergens.  I am going to keep wearing mine whenever needed, regardless of the comments and stares.

My allergies have been brutal this year, ragweed is one of the things I'm allergic to. Somehow I still have allergies even while taking 4 antihistamines a day along with a massive dose of Doxepin, which itself is also an antihistamine. Nose and eyes run like waterfalls. I go through Costco-sized Kleenex boxes left and right lol. I'm sure having a large garden full of flowers in my backyard isn't helping my allergies to pollen.

I had a really bad time earlier in the summer with ragweed and scotch broom, which they like to plant in the highway median strips around here. I actually had my entire yard ripped out and replaced with rock beds, and that's worked wonders for me around the house, now I just have to be aware when I'm driving to switch on internal air at certain points when I see the median strip turn yellow.