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Eljay - I'm glad you're feeling better. My brother had the shots and they helped him a lot. I hope they work for you.
KarlEd - yes, I'm sure it's gold. I'm not allergic to silver or nickel or any other metals, just gold and nothing but the gold. My mother is also allergic to gold.
Hypoallergenic doesn't mean that no one will ever be allergic to it, it just means that it's safer for most people.
And I have another to add to the list that I forgot about - sawdust. I get terrible ashtma attacks from that. Oh, and milk. Nope, not lactose intolerant. Lactose is actually the ONLY component in milk that I am not allergic to.
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My mother in law is allergic to celery. Restaurants keep thinking it is a joke. She keeps having to leave in anaphylactic shock.
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I've never been scratch tested and frankly now I'm hesitant (even though a part of me knows that what you went through is obviously quite rare). I do know I'm allergic to cat, dog, dustmite, pollen, mold, ragweeds, some trees (but I don't know which), and Queen Anne's Lace (that's a nasty one!!)
My sister has all the same plus chocolate, gold, milk (or maybe that's a lactose intolerance, I don't recall now) and eggs.
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Anyway, the strangest allergies I've ever heard of are the ones one of my uncles has: he cannot eat green fruits (unripe ones, that is), and when he touches leather his teeth hurt! I almost thought it was a joke first time he told me, but apparently it's not...
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No need to worry... that's the nice part about having relatives on Hatrack, dkw will let you know if something awful happens to me. Or vice versa, of course. I was thinking about that when Eduardo posted about if he died we would never know why he disappeared... unless something takes out dkw and me and now probably Bob, too, you'll at least be notified.
*giggle* That probably wasn't as comforting as it was meant to be.
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In an odd coincidence, the day after I read this I talked to my family. Seems my brother had his allergy test and swelled up/got massively sick. Just a day before he was to move his stuff into a new house.
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The nurse called me the next day to make sure I was alright... she reiterated that I was the worst case she or the doctor had ever seen, and asked how things had went after I left. When I told her about the hives after I left she was a little concerned, that things had kept happening. We also talked about the shots a little... I told her I was nervous, considering my reaction to the test. She said that the test is at a 1:1,000 dilution and if I went ahead with the shots it would be a 1:1,000,000 dilution. I'm going to try it.
Although I felt better by Wednesday night, I still didn't feel really great... had to leave work early Friday and go home to bed. I didn't feel completely recovered until pretty late Saturday evening. I would have hated to have to move in that state. Frankly, I doubt I could have. I could barely hold my head up for most of the day Saturday.
Anyway... I don't think my experience should stop anyone from getting allergy tests. My reaction was undoubtably extreme. But I wouldn't care to go through it again. (Read: Not for love or money.
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Thankfully, his new house is just across the water from his old one, and my family is all there to help him out. The moron actually drove himself back to the doctor while he swelled up to look like the Michelin man. That's the Stamm brothers, stubborn to the core.
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yeah, Gluten intolerance, Celiac Disease, whatever you want to call it. It's amazing how much stuff has wheat in it. It's also bad because I'm a-symptomatic so even if I were to eat wheat it would destroy my intestines and I wouldn't know it.
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Wow! I'm not really asymptomatic. Before I was diagnosed I was always severly anemic. Now I have read blood cells (Woo Hoo!!) Unfortunately, that isn't exactly a fast feed back loop. I could be eating the wrong stuff for months before I keeled over.
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If you look at my post history, you'll see that I posted twice in November and sporadically before then. I've never actually left.
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