Posted by: jschwab
« on: December 04, 2013, 10:42:21 PM »Adults who have adult-onset food allergies have just always had that be so-- most people with adult-onset, there's this weird opening phase of things where even stuff you ARE NOT allergic to, you react to-- it's like your immune system views everything with some degree of suspicion, and some days, some things... more than others. But unpredictable.
I'm curious about this because I had a very different experience with shellfish and milk which were very clear cut, no side reactions, no correlative sensitivities at all. And then with almonds, much more wonky and unpredictable with sudden reactions to different stuff (wool, greater sensitivity to pine, etc). Although I do have a lot of food intolerances that predate my allergies. When I was at the allergist I started telling her how I don't eat rice, even minute amounts of powdered rice in medications and vitamin supplements because it gives me a stomach ache and diarrhea and red spots and I was, like, oh, ding, ding, ding, maybe that was actually gearing up to an allergy, or WAS an allergy? She's testing it. Maybe I headed that one off at the pass and the others I just went too far to the breaking point of anaphylaxis? Most of the time I feel like I just overdid it on these foods and caused my own allergies. I has intestinal cramping for a full year and a half before this almond reaction which I thought was something else. Sometimes I think if I were more intuitive like I was with the rice, I could have avoided this?