re: Allergy shots...are they worth the cost and drive and wait at doctors office?

Allergy shots can be helpful for the "right" person.

Obviously, you need to get started with allergy testing to see what your allergic to. There's a lot of people out there with non-allergic rhinitis as well, which can prsent with similar symptoms and won't respond to allergy shots.

You can also try medications first: flonase/nasonex/rhinocort, astelin/dymista, singulair, sinus rinses etc. which may control your symptoms without having to do the allergy shots over several years.

Also depending on what your allergic to, there's a few grass ones that are sublingual (in the mouth). Sublingual is very popular in europe, but a lot of difficulty in getting it FDA approved in the US for various reasons.