I hear ya! I recently learned that I am allergic to a lot of tree pollens. I had allergy testing in December after either having to frequently be on Prednisone or getting Depo Medrol injections for recurrent and increasingly severe sinus problems.

I am now getting weekly immunotherapy shots, but they won't start having much of a positive effect until I've been getting them for a year, and it will be about five years total before I'm finished with them. I just started them in January.

This is the first Spring that I have actually been aware of WHAT I am allergic to, and I almost wish I didn't know. I love to take my son camping and fishing quite a bit during the warmer months, but knowing that I'm allergic to most of the tree pollens kind of puts a damper on that this year.

Anyway, I've been made a LOT more aware of what pollens are in the air at which times of the year through this process, and am much more in tune to what sets my allergies off. I can relate better to other people who have to go through all kinds of allergy treatments now, too. I really feel for them!

Are you SURE you aren't allergic to any of the pollens you are experiencing in your environment? Having puffy and swollen eyes are a symptom of allergies. There are eyedrops available to help with that, by the way, but NOT any of the over-the-counter "redness relievers"---they will actually make your eyes worse than just using artificial tears to dilute the allergens. (I work for an eye doctor, so have learned about these things there.) There are prescription allergy eye drops that work very well, if it gets bad enough, too.