news article re kenalog injection

[mylungshateme]

allergyuk.org/news/kenalog/

I found this quite interesting as I was given this as a child yep a child at 14 as my hayfever was so severe I was on maximum treatment an constantly ill from march - oct. Would trigger asthma an tonsillitis every year.

I would miss school as by the time I walked down the lane to get school bus I was having full blown allergy attack. Gp and school decided in order for me to have a chance of GCSE's I needed this it was successful so had it every year until I was 32 when suddenly gp decided it wasn't good. Then would prescribe courses of pred to dampen down immune. I suppose you could say it was most probably around this time that allergies an asthma got worse! And yet still no referral to allergist... thinking now most of my life I've been dependent on steroids no wonder my adrenal glands have been struggling lately. 🥴but if I knew then what I know now would I still have had it? Honestly not sure? it gave me a quality of life so can leave the house when nothing else worked... did anyone else have this?

[ReedB]

Hey, I was given this for the same reason. I couldn't leave the house as I would sneeze so much and get in a right state. If I miraculously made it to school I often had to leave again within the hour... It didn't seem to do much for me so doc did the usual course of steroids in May to try and counteract the grass season. Can't say that did much either! It was only when he gave me telfast (fexofenadine) to try that I noticed a huge improvement. Wasn't perfect but I could at least function. I was never referred to allergy either and often wonder if the last twenty years may have been easier if I'd have been seen earlier especially when asthma kicked in at 21 (now 37) . I think I would try again if faced with a similar low life quality.

[mylungshateme in reply to ReedB]

I also tried fexofenadine but was allergic to it! How you can be allergic to an antihistamine I don't know! I'm 39 so same kinda time span of kenalog use. Hayfever is evil. I think I would probably go with it again as it helped.

[ReedB in reply to mylungshateme]

Oh no ,lol... That's rubbish. Our bodies can be very odd indeed! .. I've finally been offered desensitisation to grass pollen, supposed to be starting next month but it seems a bit late now! The grass pollen can still be a pain but usually find it manageable now. 🤦

[Poobah]

I've never heard of this injection, so Googled to see what the NHS thinking was as your GP had stopped prescribing Kenalog. It looks like the NHS has decided that other treatments are likely to be more effective; sps.nhs.uk/articles/is-ther...

There's also this article stating that the NHS has stopped prescribing Kenalog due to side effects and that the medication is still available at private clinics, for a charge, but it's licence has been withdrawn in the UK for the treatment of hayfever. individuals.freeths.co.uk/p...

As you say, taking Prednisolone long term is fraught with potential side effects, so one wonder which medication is best long term - sometimes it's difficult to understand the decisions that the licencing bodies make.