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Angie4b1g

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Are you allergic to anything?

My allergies are dust mites, mold and pollen (so basically, life), but after a series of shots in my early 20s, aren't too bad at all. I used to be non-functional for days if I dusted.

Or maybe it's just that I don't dust anymore... hmm...

I've always been thankful to not have any food allergies. Because I loves me some food.
 
Thankfully I don't have any allergies. My sister and Dad used to both have horrible hay fever, but they both seem to have grown out of that.
 
Mostly hay fever. I have noticed that bananas are starting to make my mouth itch when I eat them so I'm staying away for a while.
 
I allergic to everything! I recently switched allergists and during my retesting, I reacted poorly to everything - including water, which they use as the base test. So it's mostly plants, dust, mold, animals and especially cats. My reaction to cat tested about 100x worse than all the others. I had a lump the size of a quarter compared to the other little bumps. The new round of shots seems to be helping though.
 
I am allergic to a lot of medications.. steriod creams, rubbing alchocol, tetracycle,
and oddly enough.. ROOT BEAR
 
I develop new allergies as I age. I used to have no allergies and now I collect them. I'm allergic to dry leaves, and burning leaves. I rely heavily on my rescue inhaler every fall. But skin allergies have become my biggest issue. My biggest ones are chlorine (no swimming pool or chlorine cleaning products for me!) and also whatever the heck is in non-chlorine bleach. It took us a month to figure that one out then we had to rewash everything in the house a few times to get it out. My skin wants all our whites to be dingy.
 
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Just medications - including aspirin, ibuprofen (basically I can only take Tylenol), and a few different antibiotics.
 
No food allergies, but to dust, pollen, trees, grass, and everything else.
 
Mostly just Cedar tree pollen - it's really bad here this time of year! Dust to an extent but it's not too bad.
 
Pollen, Neosporin, fruit and fragrances (I buy non-scented products as much as I can). No matter what fruit I eat, I get itchy all over. Sometimes I will take meds or deal with the itching just so I can enjoy my favorite fruits.
 
I used to have allergies (or so I thought) all year round with runny nose, stuffy nose, headaches, watery eyes. Then last year I found out that I have blocked tear ducts so that creates my itchy runny eyes but luckily it's not bad enough to care to do anything about it. The runny/stuffy nose disappeared when I stopped eating gluten/wheat. So, other than a bit of allergy to moldy leaves in the fall and dust (which is very mild) I don't really have problems with allergies.
 
I am gluten intolerant and also carbohydrate intolerant. I have chronic post nasal drip that is made worse by dust. I do believe I have some seasonal allergies, too but I'm not sure what exactly causes it. I just know it was worse once we moved here to WA state from STL, MO. I also have to be careful w/ dairy. I can eat cream cheese and mozzarella cheese but that's about it. Other dairy products can make me feel sick to my stomach.
 
Nitrous Oxide.....it doesn't make me funny...just sends my heart racing over 300 BPM.
 
I think I'm developing them as I age. I used to say I didn't have any, but I've definitely got a grass allergy now!
 
Not many people here with food allergies, huh?

I have a dairy allergy. I discovered it later in life and only recently did it become severe enough to stop my dairy intake. I miss a good slice of pizza. It's very hard to eat out too. I did another test recently and may have a slight wheat allergy so I hope to be tested a bit more for that. I'm probably also allergic to dust, mold, trees, etc... but my recent tests didn't indicate it like the first series did. But it was blood tests vs ***** tests and they may not be as accurate.

My husband is the king of allergies. He's got all the common ones, and trees can be very serious for him. He also is allergic to most foods. All nuts are very dangerous, lots of fruits (strawberries, apples, oranges), several veggies (green beans, corn, carrots), he's allergic to chicken as well. He's noticed lately his allergies are increasing so he can't chicken at all anymore. Some of the foods he can have in small doses. He can have swelling, hives, stomach issues, or worse. They tell a story that as a baby, they had to blend beef into a liquid form and that's all he could have in his bottle. So we are steak and potato people.

I hate it. I wish the world was more allergen friendly. Restaurants should have allergens for every dish and in writing and updated, and it would be great if there was enough places for people like us to visit safely. I can't tell you how many times I go to a place who refuses to accommodate a dairy allergy (leave off the butter, etc...). Vegan butter is pretty good though, works on toast and baked potatoes.
 
bcgal00 said:
I used to have allergies (or so I thought) all year round with runny nose, stuffy nose, headaches, watery eyes. Then last year I found out that I have blocked tear ducts so that creates my itchy runny eyes but luckily it's not bad enough to care to do anything about it.
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I used to think that I had a lot of seasonal allergies because of itchy, watery eyes - and I was going through my disposable lenses so fast from all the protein deposits, as a result. Then a friend of mine asked me whether I had ever tried switching away from the "all in one" contact lens solutions to a hydrogen peroxide based one - because I guess people can develop eye allergies to the preservatives they use in the no-rub all-in-ones over time. I've been wearing contacts for 24 years. ANYWAY - I switched and my eye allergies magically disappeared.

Which has nothing to do with anything except that I had a similar situation in that I was like "How am I allergic to everything?!?!" and then it turned out ... it was just the lens solution. LOL And the only thing I'm really allergic to (nature-wise) is dry leaves - but it's respiratory in nature.

I was living on Allegra for years, though, before I figured that one out.
 
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