>From now on it looks like 2 shots per week for
>6 months followed by 1 shot per month or so. Each shot costs
>$20. Talking about soaring costs and the Health care system, I would
>call that a racket. We are not talking about rare Amazonian grasses
>here, but the garbage which grows behind the doctor's office.
>Apart from this issue, I was somewhat disappointed to find out
>that you have to keep getting the shots forever. Is that right?

>You might look for an allergy doctor in your area who uses sublingual
>drops instead of shots for treatment. (You are given a small bottle of
>antigens; 3 drops are placed under the tongue for 5 minutes.) My

>This homeopathic remedies.  I tried the dander one for a month. 15 drops
>three times a day.  I didn't notice any change whats so ever.  How long
>were you using the drops before you noticed a difference?

>I am interested in trying this "desensitization" (?) method
>against hay fever.
>What is the state of affairs about this. I went to a doctor and
>paid $85 for a 10 minute interview + 3 scratches, leading to the
>diagnostic that I am allergic to (June and Timothy) grass.
>I believe this. From now on it looks like 2 shots per week for
>6 months followed by 1 shot per month or so. Each shot costs
>$20. Talking about soaring costs and the Health care system, I would
>call that a racket. We are not talking about rare Amazonian grasses
>here, but the garbage which grows behind the doctor's office.
>Apart from this issue, I was somewhat disappointed to find out
>that you have to keep getting the shots forever. Is that right?
>Thanks for information.

>I have just started taking allergy shots a month ago and is
>still wondering what I am getting into. A friend of mine told
>me that the body change every 7 years (whatever that means)
>and I don't need those antibody-building allergy shots at all.
>Does that make sense to anyone?

>BTW, can someone summarize what is in the Consumer Report
>February, 1988 article?

>  Few weeks ago, the W5 on CTV carried a story about
>  a Canadian doctor (a Russian immigrant) in Kitchener/
>  Waterloo who was using a new kind of allergy shot
>  with seemingly effective results. He was injecting
>  hitamine instead of allergien. The problem is that
>  the Ontario College of Physicians does not sanction
>  this method and have forced him to stop such practice
>  (the TV program showed a meeting of 300 patents/families
>  in supporting the new method).
>  The doctor (I forgot his name, it sounds like -----vich)
>  explained that the method works because the injected
>  hesitamine fools the immune system to not releasing
>  natural histamine.
>  To a non-medical person like me, this makes sense
>  of course, but the question about the long-term effect
>  of such fooling the immune system probaly remains to be
>  answered.
>  Any comment on such method ?