I live in San Antonio. For the first 46 years in New York and New Jersey, nothing. I come to San Antonio and within a year I am miserable. They tell me it is from the cedar outside of Kerville. My solution, turn Kerville into a big mall with parking lot.
I’ve lived in rural areas with cedar-which is actually Ashe juniper-most of my life, so I’ve got good immunity. I live in the middle of it now, with quite a few large trees on the property. I’m only bothered by cedar/juniper pollen at the height of the season-and not all that badly-I use a homeopathic product called Texas Allergy Relief-it is available at health food stores out here-in Kerrville, Boerne, etc-don’t know about SA.
You should try it-all natural, no side effects, etc-and it doesn’t become less effective with time, like even the OTC stuff does-it might help you.
There are plenty of cedar/juniper trees as close to you as most of N. Bexar County-they are part of the woods and ecosystems in this entire part of the state...
People in places like Kerrville and rural areas don’t want more malls and we are used to the pollen from trees-that is why we live where there are restrictions on development...
I lived in Dallas decades ago. Allergies were bad, but we were taken aback when our young daughter came home and said, “How come all the other kids are getting speech therapy and I’m not?” The kids ears were so plugged from allergies that they couldn’t hear properly. I remember listening to one little girl, and her voice sounded as if she was talking underwater, which is presumably what she heard all the time. When allergies worsened in our family, we grabbed our kids and ran for Arizona, so they could have a chance of growing up without surgically-implanted “ear tubes”.