If you've been suffering from sneezing spells and hay fever you're not alone and it looks like things will get worse as fall allergy season approaches.

High grass, pollen, and mold counts have hundreds of Brazos Valley residents seeking treatment. Combine that with a hot summer and little rain, and you've got the perfect storm of allergens all around.

"Mowing the grass I don't notice it I go outside and get some fresh air and feel better so I hadn't noticed it, anything else I think ," said Jacques Richard, a College Station resident.

Richard was at Allergy Associates seeking relief from his symptoms this week.

He comes in for a shot every other week.

"I try, I'd like none actually, but I need them I'd sort of love to be off of them but this summer I think I've been better with the grass and the dust except in confined spaces," Richard said.

Allergist Dr. Barry Paull is averaging around 40 face to face visits per day which doesn't include the 140 people or so who are coming in for their regular allergy shots. Those numbers are actually average for this time of year.

"The Aggies are coming back and everybody is trying to scramble and get their allergies taken care of before the season hits so it's early season right now it'll get worse as we get into September kind of peaks in October actually," said Dr. Barry Paull with Allergy Associates of the Brazos Valley.

Dr. Paull says the lack of rain, hot, and windy summer, has aggravated the problem.

"There's still a lot of grass in the air the humidity is high, the mold counts are high, the fall ragweeds are just beginning to make themselves known but some people are allergic to fall weeds and even the small amounts in the air are beginning to have problems," he added.

Dr. Paull said the best advice includes avoiding the allergens whenever possible but sometimes medications are necessary.

"It's gonna continue to get worse through the end of October, it'll peak sometime in the middle of October," he said.

For Jacques Richard he's now looking at other options to relieve his symptoms.

"I have carpet I got rid of, it made things better," said Jacques Richard.

While Dr. Paull said sniffling and sneezing season is only going to get worse for fall allergy suffers, there is a silver lining; some steady rains over the next few weeks could wash a lot of the pollens out of the air.

Around 10 percent of the population suffers from allergies.