There seems to be quite a wide range of opinions from patients and doctors on whether allergy shots do any good, or if they are just a complete waste of time and money.

My daughter did a program similar to the one you described and they were very effective for her. That was probably around 10 years ago and while she still has occassional seasonal allergy symtoms they are never anything like she experienced when she was young. She will go back on prescription allergy meds now and then when she feels like she's bothered by them, but that's pretty rare.

My sister did the allergy shots as well and had great success too but after about 5 years of being almost allergy free it all came back. She went in for shots again and they didn't help much at all the 2nd time around.

The medical insurance we had at the time covered all my daughter's shots with a very small copay.