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« on: September 15, 2009, 08:14:40 PM »

I am allergic to dog fur and cat saliva... though I've been around cats and dogs for most of my life now so the allergies have calmed down.

I am not at all allergic to bees.  I've been stung 10-15 times at once before and they were nothing but mosquito bite-sized welts that stopped itching after several hours and were gone within a day or two.

I also don't get poison ivy very bad.  I once walked through a dense patch of it while we were stealing some rocks by some railroad tracks to put around our fire pit... my friend had a major rash running up both legs... I got like two tiny blisters that I disinfected and bandaged and everything was fine.

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« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2009, 08:15:46 PM »

I think I'm allergic to pistachioes. This is horrible, because pistachioes are delicious.
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« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2009, 08:16:07 PM »

Poison Ivy (Possibly Poison Oak, Sumac).  Accidentally rubbed my eye, and needed steroids for a good week to keep my eye from swelling shut.
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« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2009, 08:19:55 PM »

Poison Ivy (Possibly Poison Oak, Sumac).  Accidentally rubbed my eye, and needed steroids for a good week to keep my eye from swelling shut.

You could be allergic to the other two, but the chances of you coming across either of them is slim... especially poison sumac.  That stuff really only goes in bogs and marshes that humans don't tend to just trudge through.
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« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2009, 08:21:41 PM »

I'm horribly allergic to cats. Which is a shame, because I absolutely love cats, and we have two of them, so I'm constantly in need of allergy meds and go through a religious sneezing ritual after I wake up. When my scratch my eyes too much after being around a cat, they start to swell. It's gotten worse as I've grown, but it's still noticeable.

I'm writing this with a cat sleeping on my lap right now, actually. I love them too much to hate them for my allergies.
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« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2009, 08:39:09 PM »

I'm not allergic to anything.
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« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2009, 08:58:42 PM »

I am allergic to bee stings.  I am not in any mortal danger if I am stung by one or two, but there is generally considerable swelling for several days.  I'm not sure what would happen if I were stung by more than that.  It's never happened.

As far as I know, that's it.
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« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2009, 09:02:21 PM »

Just to give an idea, last time I was stung, it was on the outer part of my foot.  Within a couple hours, that part of my foot was as large as the inner part, and my little toe (and I have a very small little toe about one inch, basically so small as to be of no use at all) has swollen to the size of my middle toe, and remained that way for a few days.
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« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2009, 09:08:06 PM »

Whatever it is that I'm allergic to, it absolutely devastates me every fall and spring.  I am miserable and suffering right now.  (I'm pretty sure it's my allergies, and not swine flu)
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« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2009, 09:19:53 PM »

Just to give an idea, last time I was stung, it was on the outer part of my foot.  Within a couple hours, that part of my foot was as large as the inner part, and my little toe (and I have a very small little toe about one inch, basically so small as to be of no use at all) has swollen to the size of my middle toe, and remained that way for a few days.

Do big little toes have uses?
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« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2009, 09:29:17 PM »

Just to give an idea, last time I was stung, it was on the outer part of my foot.  Within a couple hours, that part of my foot was as large as the inner part, and my little toe (and I have a very small little toe about one inch, basically so small as to be of no use at all) has swollen to the size of my middle toe, and remained that way for a few days.

Do big little toes have uses?

I imagine they have more uses than mine.  I think mine are, more or less, at the top end of human evolution, as they have literally worn down to almost nothing.
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« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2009, 10:16:03 PM »

Pet dander. It's pretty rough the first few days back from college.
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« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2009, 10:21:05 PM »

Cats, ragweed (which has transplanted itself to if I eat cantaloupe, watermelon, and banana now, as apparently there are some proteins that resemble ragweed on those; nice job, immune system, you just defeated my favorite food when I was in elementary and middle school, cantaloupe Tongue), probably some sort of unknown indoor allergy as if I don't take allergy medication year round my nose tends to be a bit confused, mosquito bites (though not at all to the extent that people are allergic to bee stings; it's just that I can terrify people with the extremity of mosquito bites if I make any sort of physical contact with the bite location after I'm bitten).

I once had someone tell me it would make sense that I'd have a lot of allergies.  I wasn't at all sure how to take that comment.
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« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2009, 10:25:50 PM »

Cats, ragweed (which has transplanted itself to if I eat cantaloupe, watermelon, and banana now, as apparently there are some proteins that resemble ragweed on those; nice job, immune system, you just defeated my favorite food when I was in elementary and middle school, cantaloupe Tongue), probably some sort of unknown indoor allergy as if I don't take allergy medication year round my nose tends to be a bit confused, mosquito bites (though not at all to the extent that people are allergic to bee stings; it's just that I can terrify people with the extremity of mosquito bites if I make any sort of physical contact with the bite location after I'm bitten).

I once had someone tell me it would make sense that I'd have a lot of allergies.  I wasn't at all sure how to take that comment.

I'm not surprised that you have a lot either.. and I'm not sure why.  You're probably too clean... your immune system doesn't have enough to fight off so it just starts picking things at random.
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« Reply #14 on: September 16, 2009, 12:15:49 AM »

     I used to be mildly allergic to Augmentin. Not so much anymore.
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« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2009, 05:25:03 AM »

Grass pollen.  That's all.
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« Reply #16 on: September 16, 2009, 05:30:07 AM »

Amoxicillian is the only thing I know of.  Made me get a little emotional (I was at home alone for awhile and was yelling at the walls and crying and other insane things) and I got little red bumps ALL over my body...as they went away they itched like a mofo.
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« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2009, 11:00:42 AM »

No diagnosed allergies, though it's pretty obvious I am allergic to some metal occasionally found in cheap earrings, probably nickle.
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« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2009, 08:37:31 AM »

When there is too much dust >>> series of ATCHAAA! that I use to make follow by some "wow".

There may be other things that provoke series of this, but that remains pretty rare and that's not really identified.
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« Reply #19 on: September 17, 2009, 01:34:56 PM »

I used to have a pretty serious mosquito allergy, but I grew out of it.
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« Reply #20 on: September 17, 2009, 02:23:05 PM »

Latex. Badly.
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« Reply #21 on: September 17, 2009, 02:38:42 PM »

Abstinence wins. Flawless victory.
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« Reply #22 on: September 17, 2009, 03:01:08 PM »

Nothing. That allergy test thingee with a bunch of receptors on your arm that I took in Bavaria returned nothing.
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« Reply #23 on: September 17, 2009, 04:01:14 PM »

Nothing. That allergy test thingee with a bunch of receptors on your arm that I took in Bavaria returned nothing.

Yeah, I did that test too.  I am also allergic to smoke, apparently.. despite having grown up with fireplaces in the house that we used a lot.. and having campfires like every night all summer long...

The doctor told us to get rid of our dogs and cats and rip out the fireplace... needless to say, that didn't happen.  I almost never get allergies unless its a combination of several things (like a smoky room filled with cats and dogs).  Believe it or not, allergies can go away as you age.
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« Reply #24 on: September 17, 2009, 06:12:45 PM »

Certain washing powders and new rags ( untill they have been washed a few times.. it must be the die)
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