Allergies

Good luck at the allergist.

I've never been tested, but I'm pretty much allergic to everything in the air it seems. I take allergy meds everyday. And my allergies have gotten better since the move to Asheville.

Good luck! Hope you feel better!

Wow, that's the first time I've heard that. I moved just 50 miles south of you and my allergies blew up big time and I even developed asthma. I've always been told that Asheville is really bad for allergies. I guess you lucked out and the stuff there is not what you are allergic to.

Barbara G.

Ohio is an allergy pit. Literally, it is one big valley and the pollens and stuff never completely blow away. And then, there is the mold.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

Well I came from Atlanta -incredibly dirty air.

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's what I did to get rid of my allergies. Hope you feel better soon, Pam

oh, and when an inversion hits and all the stuff settles in a big unbreathable blanket that keeps pressing further down in the atmosphere...ick. The mold was the worst allergen for me, tho, and I think that makes Florida not a good state for me either. Even here where its often 9% humidity, as opposed to 99% Ohiostyle, I have to kill the mold in the bathroom or my head gets stuffy. Sarajane

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Many years ago when I was stationed in San Angelo (Way West By God Texas) I was having seasonal coughing and sneezing and all. The AF doctors tried to blame it on evertying but allergic rhinitis; hay fever to the common man. Finally I got them to set me up for testing, had to go to an Army doc in San Antonio. When all was said and done, she said, quite plainly, I was allergic to Texas. The mesquite, pine, grass, dirt, water, you name it. I tried to get a humanitarian reassignment out of the deal, but no way. They set me up with a couple meds, and relief was wonderful.

Nowadays I'm on Zyrtec - it works pretty well most of the time. Val

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "VManes" :

]she said, quite plainly, I was ]allergic to Texas.

i'm allergic to the Marysville/Yuba City area. i'm not sure if it's the burning of the rice fields, or some of the trees down there, but that area drives my allergies absolutely WILD. and i have to drive through there to get to Sacramento or my mother's either one. my sil that lives there just shakes her head at me. and we've been having family parties at her house, since they are the ones between all the rest of us.

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's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

Peach fuzz? That used to be a big crop there. And probably still is.

Tina

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :

]Peach fuzz? That used to be a big crop there. And probably still is.

dunno. i grew up with peach trees in the yard that never bothered me. i KNOW i'm allergic to things like burning leaves and the rice fields. olive trees seem to be big allergens, too.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

Allergic to Texas. Now that's new. I've tried Zyrtec and it relieves the symptoms somewhat, but not well enough. I'm not taking anything for 5 days until I go back for testing. Hope I live that long. LOL

Ken lived here til he was 21, and had *major* allergies (in the Antioch area).

He went to the east coast to join the Navy, and has been in Norfolk, New York, Fla...all up and down the east coast.

He came back here, and within 3 weeks, he got them bad...his eye would swell, and it would look like I socked him one.

We figured out this year that it was the timing that he came back...he has minor ones all year round, but March/April, damn, they hit him hard!!! He was taking that 24 hour stuff that he got OTC, + chlorphenaramine, *and* an inhaler, *and* eyedrops...and a lot of times, had to get up 1/2 hour earlier to lay there with a wet washcloth over his eyes...

Oh, and I hate it too, cuz I know there's nothing I can do for him...we have a saying..."it's allergies, not cancer!", cuz of the way I worry over him...

Mary

but, allergies left untreated can result in asthma as I found out the hard way and believe me that is no fun!

Barbara G.

Maybe that's why I've been having asthma attacks when I sneeze. I was leaving my allergies untreated for a while.

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 8:08:10 -0500, BGreen9661 wrote (in message ):

And untreated asthma can result in irreversable lung damage. Years of oxygen deprivation does result in heart and systemic damage. The results are so far reaching, it's unbelievable. Who would have dreamt that my broken neck last winter could be a direct result of years of untreated allergies that turned into asthma and lung disease, which have made me steroid dependent and gave me osteoporosis. A minor slip in the driveway last winter broke my neck. I still can't totally believe it.

When DD started sniffling with allergies as a baby, I turned into a ferocious mama bear and made sure she got treated appropriately. (I did not take the "she might grow out of it" thing well at all) She's had a total of one asthma attack in her life, and keeping the allergies under control has kept the asthma at bay. I never, ever want her to go through what I've been through.

Kathy N-V

Obligatory bead Reference: The crystal kimono is getting it's first major rippit this morning. I finished the neckline last night, and I don't like it. It's okay, but not great, and after all the time and money I've put into this thing, it had darned well better end up great. Ran out of crystals again, too. (This thing will be well over 10,000 4mm crystals when finished.) And, it keeps getting bigger! (yes, I know those two things are related) I have the camera out, so I'll take some pictures in progress and post them later today.

Asthma was one of the things the docs tried to prove I had, before we got around to the allergy. The extreme coughing was producing asthma-like symptoms - lack of breath mainly. When I asked him how he could know it's asthma, he said, "Well, we know it is if it responds to the anti-asthma drugs." Is that bass-akwards, or what??? And so the A-word wound up in my medical records, for no good reason, and darn near kept me from passing a flight physical later on. Val

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "VManes" :

]And so the A-word wound up in my ]medical records, for no good reason, and darn near kept me from passing a ]flight physical later on.

my dad signed up with the Army Air Corps because he wanted to fly. they washed him out, telling him he had asthma. he swore there was some pilot in the sky that had switched records and was flying with asthma - he never even had allergies OR asthma his entire life!

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's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

I am the same way with my grandkids. GD goes with me to get her allergy shots. She lost so much time from school in 2nd grade because of allergies that turned into secondary infections. We didn't wait even that long on the GS. He's only 4. He doesn't need shots, but he does need medication to get through the pollen season. Their father (SIL) has asthma, also.

Barbara G.