so waht ya doin today?

Ian

Notorious member
I used to be bomb-proof. Then I outgrew my youth and it seems every few years something else triggers my immune system. Cedar makes me very irritable and eventually by the end of the season miserably depressed. This year I watched the buds and counts carefully and started taking Claritin at first sign, before my histamine cells degranulated. I actually have been doing quite well on the Claritin, way better and almost no side-effects compared to Allegra or Zyrtec. The oak usually gets me bad in the spring, but the past two years I've been taking a homeopathic drop for that and the effect borders on miraculous. A few years ago I added ragweed (Texas giant ragweed or Bloodweed) to the list of things that bring misery (depression, extreme irritability, fatigue), still working on a treatment for that. Then there's mold. Not sure when mold started bothering me because the effect is subtle but generally it makes me tired and grumpy. I'm normally tired and grumpy, so its s little hard to tell if its mold or my chronic allergy to the stupidity I have to deal with constantly at work. No cure for that one, either.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
I get the allergy's rolling from the snow mold come mid-winter right after the negative temps get done.
it's called blue mold.
I was taking a steroid nasal spray and it kept things at bay just fine.

I didn't have any with me when I come down through Texas and Oklahoma a couple of years back about this time of year, and I thought I was dying.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Blue mold? Never heard of that, but it sounds like one more reason for me to never live where it snows significantly.

My allergies are odd, almost never presenting with cold symptoms. The only reason my eyes swelled up yesterday is I literally was dumping clouds of pollen on my head as I hacked my way through the ripe trees with a chainsaw. I looked like someone had dumped a sack of cornmeal on me.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
it's worse in places where it doesn't snow a lot.
I first run into it in Wyoming, where they average like 4"s of snow a year, then it just blows around in circles for 4 months.
 

Intheshop

Banned
Had a nuclear stress test yesterday. Walk in,no insurance price round 5k. Mine was covered.

Had to go see cardiologist cause my heartrate had gotten down to very low 40's. Felt like taking a dirt nap at any time...... doh. So they dropped one med,then sent me for the nuclear. It all went peachy. They shoot some glow in the dark juice in you then take fancy pics of the heart. Now throw you up on the treadmill and run it till your heart is about to explode,then shoot some more juice in.If,you didn't fall off the back of the tread mill..... it's back to the polaroid.

The heart rate is up now round 56-58. And feel like,not passing out all the time.

Other than that,wandered around in the drizzle yesterday with a CB rig under my arm. We got 65" of rain in 2018..... wifey reported. She said mid 30 inches is normal.
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
I used a steroid nasal spray, in Michigan starting the third week in September until the first frost, for hay fever......... mainly for ragweed.

Here in Arkansas, I have to use it daily. Lots of oaks and cedars, hearabouts. In the spring, pollen turns everything outdoors, yellow. Lasts for months.:sigh:
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
In Nebraska we have 3 distinct allergy seasons. Spring is trees, summer is grasses, fall is ragweed. Many people get hit with just one of them, some get all three.
Please don’t come to me in the midst of ragweed season and tell me your itchy eyes and runny nose are a cold because you don’t have allergies.

Did you guys know that allergies are largely a first world problem? The developing world essentially has no allergies. One theory is that we have allergies because our immune system has idle hands and does the devils work. In developing nations the immune system is busy keeping you alive, no time for crap like allergies.
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
I never had any signs or symptoms of allergies until I was in my 40s. Now the allergies hit 2 or 3 times a year and usually last a couple of weeks.
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
I never used to experience any signs of allergies. When everyone around me was about dying from whatever pollen or whatever was in the air I was perfectly fine wondering what the problem is. I get the pollen allergies now and understand quite well what the problem is. One of the joys of getting old I guess.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
the pollen off those cedar trees down in Texas has to be seen to be believed.
I have been around them all of my life, heck half of the hunting and farm work I done was in a place called Cedar Valley.
that's something else down there.
 

Will

Well-Known Member
I take Zyrtec D every day and it really helps me. I have had allergy problems pretty much my whole life. Really kicks my butt in the spring when the hardwoods start to bloom. Then when I have to bale hay a few weeks later it about kills me.

Ian what homeopathic treatment are you using?

My worst allergies are too animals and that kills me. I truly love being around animals. If I go in a barn where the cats have been hanging out it about smothers me to death.

We have a new companion coming this weekend to stay in the house. He was my daughters Christmas present. I’m really hoping he doesn’t bother me too bad. It will be fun having him around.

My in laws have a Scottish Terrier and it doesn’t bother me too bad so I’m hopeful.

 

popper

Well-Known Member
Cute Lab pup. I didn't have allergies till I did. She had them till I got rid of the cat. Now she does, still no cat. I've heard the peanut allergy is due to non-exposure at a young age, suspect strawberry is similar. But we don't eat anything from the cedar trees. Yea, here autos are yellow instead of brown after a rain.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Will, it's a product made by Allergena called Texas trees and grasses. They make formulas for various national regions. I found that the recommended dosage andbintervsls made me very tired/lethargic, but taking much smaller doses about every two hours throughout the day made a huge difference.
 

Charles Graff

Moderator Emeritus
the pollen off those cedar trees down in Texas has to be seen to be believed.
I have been around them all of my life, heck half of the hunting and farm work I done was in a place called Cedar Valley.
that's something else down there.

My Son by marriage lives in Austin and his 14 year old daughter told him the house might have an attic fire as there was smoke all in the air. My son by marriage is the Fire Marshal in Richardson Texas, so he went into the attic and found no fire. He then went up on the roof to check and found that smoke that filled the air was Texas Mountain Cedar pollen. This stuff is the scourge of Texas from the Red River to the Rio Grand River. My wife is having a bad bought with it now.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
Ever so often I get something unusual to do in the shop. One of my customers sent me a blueprint for a part that is made from 1" diameter 1045 TG&P (turned, ground, and polished) rod stock. It ends up being 9" long with a 3/4" hole through it, which is challenging enough as it is. It also gets - wait for it - a 22mm diameter x .75mm pitch left hand thread. The diameter/pitch combination isn't even listed in any of my reference materials, so I will have to go to the formulas to calculate the pitch diameter. I will have to use a thread mike and cut to to measurements w/o having the mating part to fit it to. And LH to boot!

Three other shops already turned down the job. I'm going to try it. If I can do it somebody is going to pay well for (eight of) these!

(As a comparison, a 22 x .75 metric thread is .866 dia with 33.9 threads per inch)
 

Wiresguy

Active Member
My sympathies to those of you dealing with “Cedar Fever” right now.

Driving from Wise County down 281 to visit my mom in San Antonio, I was amazed at the yellow clouds of cedar pollen blown by the winds.

One season I was taking Claritin, Flonase, and a steroid inhaler, and was barely getting by. Add in ragweed and smoke from grass fires and I ended up in the ER for inhalation therapy. The smoke just pushed things over the top.
 

waco

Springfield, Oregon
Loading up some more 30 xcb in .308
Same load I have had good luck with using water dropped 90/6/4(pb/sb/sn) that Lamar suggested at a bnh of around 18
I decided to pc a few AND lube them using 2500+, same as before. Not sure what the bake in the oven did to the bhn.
After I pulled them from the oven I dumped them into ice water.
New Starline brass and the same 47.5gr of H414
We will see.
 

Will

Well-Known Member
Look forward to seeing your results Waco.

I think I’m going to head in the direction powder coat with my 308. Really wanting something that’s consistent in all temps.

Think I’m going to use the tikka T3 lite this time. Due to the weight and easy handling it’s becoming my favorite rifle to take into the woods.
 

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
Quiet day here: Up early to feed my critters! Nothing much going on. Got to get back into my norm because work starts Thursday!
Double powder coated some gifted NOE 270-163 bullets that were sized to .266 for use in the new arisaka! Ordered one of those cheap Lee .277 moulds. Better then having nothing after I shoot the gifted stuff!