<p>Here's an odd question for you OC residents and students at Chapman U:</p>
<p>How bad are seasonal allergies from tree and grass pollen out there? D really suffers from this, and we are having a particularly bad year here on the east coast. Because of the extremely mild winter, everything has burst into bloom at once. I am wondering whether she can look forward to some relief living in OC, or will there be new pollens out there lying in wait? Perhaps OC is suffused with lovely ocean breezes full of pollen-free air from the Pacific? I am especially interested in hearing from any east coast allergy sufferers who moved out there. Thanks!</p>
<p>shakespearefan, this is my personal experience:</p>
<p>My allergies have always been terrible in the spring. Every spring I’d hate myself for being alive! I’d get terrible runny nose, eyes itching (to a point where they were so bad that they were constantly swollen and red), non-stop sneezing (I once sneezed 10 times in one “sneeze group”), and my face would hurt from my sinus acting up.</p>
<p>Anyway, when I moved to the west about 6-7 years ago (and I moved in mid-winter/transforming to spring) it seemed my allergies completely went away, just tons of sneezing but no other symptoms. That year, I was happy to be alive for a spring, but unfortunately my allergies came back the year after and it has just gotten worse every year. </p>
<p>This year, I am attending school on the east coast and my allergies are manageable. JSYK, it has been my first year back since 6-7 years ago. I’ve only been sneezing a lot and on warm sunny days I sneeze and get a runny nose. However, today’s raining and it seems I’m sneezing less and my runny nose is gone. </p>
<p>However, I went back to the west for spring break, even went to Orange to visit CU, and my allergies were CRAZY!!! I was getting my worst symptoms back again! I found it particularly bad when I went to Orange because I live in a more desert-climate area on the west, where seasonal allergies still get bad for me, but not as bad as Orange. SoCal is very beautiful, very warm, very nice, but also very green!</p>
<p>I’m not sure if I’m weird but it seems to me my body is now immune to the east coast and allergic to the west coast…? I might be weird, but this is just my little story! LOL.</p>
<p>The temperatures are definitely more consistent here, which may help. We don’t get the humidity of the east coast, and being close to the beach keeps things pretty mild accept toward the end of summer when we get dry heat. People’s allergies seem to be the worst here when the winds kick up, especially in the fall and spring.</p>
<p>Allergy season is kicking into gear here. I live about 8 miles from the Chapman campus. Woke up this morning about 3AM from fairly bad allergy symptoms. Benadryl was ingested and I was able to fall asleep about an hour later.</p>