Well, I've taken every allergy and asthma med in the world and none of them stop the eventual sinus/bronchial/asthma/sometimes pneumonia I get every year. I get a fall "thing' yearly. This year it didn't come until Feb., since it was so warm here in New England. I have been on Nasonex since the summer. It didn't stop the whole thing at all. In fact, once I start sneezing a lot of times in a row, I know it's gonna happen and all I can do is rest and hope it stays viral, not bacterial. Allegra works for me, but keeps me up, so I don't take it anymore. Sudafed doesn't really affect me badly, if I only take it for a couple of days when I'm sick. Singulair made me feel weird and so did Advair. Plus, I don't like the side effects of the Serevent part of Advair, like "possible increase in death from asthma" . I am now weaning myself off of a 2 month course of Qvar, a steroid inhaler for asthma. It did work, but it took awhile and I felt like s---- during my first couple of rides. The only thing that works well for my asthma is albuterol and that is supposed to be a "rescue" inhaler. I have been taking before rides, just in case.

I have had 3 rounds of allergy shots; the first when I was a kid, the second during my senior year in HS, and when I was in my 30s. Each time, I would have an asthma attack after the shots. I quit them rather quickly.

Actually, I am much healthier in New England than when I lived in AZ. There, I was on a nebulizer every 4-6 hours for the last 2 years i lived there. The dust spores are wicked and dust is the one allergen I know i am really allerg-
ic to. Plus, the air pollution in the Valley is awful in the winter. So, I guess i just live with it and try to baby myself a bit if I feel symptoms coming on. It doesn't stop me, but there are times when i have pushed myself over the edge with training too hard, the allergies kick in, and then it develops into something bad...