Health vexations
May. 5th, 2008 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desayunoencamaWent to the hospital this morning to pick up my allergy bloodwork and it all came back negative.
So maybe we're not testing for the right component? All I know is that I AM reacting to the wheat, even though so far I've turned up negative for the celiac blood test, the wheat allergy skin test and now the wheat allergy blood test.
Went to dentist this afternoon for a cleaning and, alas, had an allergic reaction before I was two blocks away. Large rash broke out on my arm, just like what's happening to me with wheat although faster and "sharper" in many ways (how it feels from inside). I was nearly home, so I went upstairs, took some photos of it, and then went back to the dentist (literally around the corner, by which point it had already started to subside, although he looked at it and said it definitely was an allergic reaction of some sort.
But he says he'd only used sodium bicarbonate, although it may have had some flavoring substance.
Sigh.
On the plus side, now that I've been off the wheat again for a month, I seem to fit in my size 29 pants again... :-)
So maybe we're not testing for the right component? All I know is that I AM reacting to the wheat, even though so far I've turned up negative for the celiac blood test, the wheat allergy skin test and now the wheat allergy blood test.
Went to dentist this afternoon for a cleaning and, alas, had an allergic reaction before I was two blocks away. Large rash broke out on my arm, just like what's happening to me with wheat although faster and "sharper" in many ways (how it feels from inside). I was nearly home, so I went upstairs, took some photos of it, and then went back to the dentist (literally around the corner, by which point it had already started to subside, although he looked at it and said it definitely was an allergic reaction of some sort.
But he says he'd only used sodium bicarbonate, although it may have had some flavoring substance.
Sigh.
On the plus side, now that I've been off the wheat again for a month, I seem to fit in my size 29 pants again... :-)
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Date: 2008-05-08 10:33 pm (UTC)Where you atopic (not a word in English: dermatitis atópica in Spanish) as a child? I've heard of several people who had allergies/eczema which then cropped up in adult life after a few years of relative peace and quiet.
I feel for you. I've had some (minor) allergies and they're a pain until you can determine the cause and get rid of the offending products.