new to CPAP: are nasal pillows bad w/year-round allergies?

[ChicagoGranny]

I have taken Claritin, and then its generic, Loratadine, for years.

Do you take that daily and year-round? If you skip a couple of days, what happens?

[ShannonCC]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I've been to an allergist. I have two different prescriptions I take for when I'm around cats, but even those don't work well enough for night time allergies. OTCs didn't work, neither did a Neti pot. Benadryl worked but I'd wake up feeling like a truck hit me (which I now understand might be because of the apnea?). So at this point I just don't bother trying to treat my allergies for the most part (except those cats ).

Now that I'm about to go on an apnea machine I'm wondering if I should try again. But for some of us, it's not that we didn't try, it's that we haven't found anything that works.

[ChicagoGranny]

Now that I'm about to go on an apnea machine I'm wondering if I should try again.

If you do try, I suggest this:

Neti pot

and

generic, Loratadine

or generic Xyrtec.

Keep alert for side effects.

CPAP itself may help with your allergies. You will be breathing filtered, humidified air eight or so hours per day.