• doug@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    Anyone have experience with the shots you can get to mitigate allergies/immunotherapy? I was thinking about getting them to temper my chronic sinusitis, and I don’t want to take Claritin for life.

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      6 days ago

      Not me, but my friend recently got approved for Dupixent and although he hates that he needs to even do this he says it’s night and day from before. Basically lived his entire life with not being able to breath. He got surgery, and it helped for a bit, but over time it came back. He says just being able to breathe normal is worth it.

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      Currently in my (I think) 4th year out of 5. I took them because I kept getting adenoid infections and wanted to avoid two surgeries. Has been a major improvement, but I still have to take an allergy pill every day and the occasional nasal spray. Hadn’t had another infection since year 1. You have to get shots every 3-7 days for several months and then they slowly spread it out over time. I’m once a month now. If you don’t have insurance it’s very expensive, especially the first year.