Adult onset allergies 5/7 major food groups. I might eat more potato's than samwise these days. I was likely allergic my entire life but it ramped up really bad last year (doctors assume covid). I wasn't aware that most of my symptoms took 12-36 hours to show, but now I can identify scratching, stomach problems and feeling flush with specific foods.
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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Seasonal; not sure what, though. Oddly, it shows up around October and November, sometimes into December.
No allergies that show up on a simple blood panel.
Except my sinuses are always runny so maybe I should get it looked into.
And my identical twin is allergic to tree nuts so maybe I should be cautious with those.
I think I'm lactose intolerant. I eat some ice cream and I notice I just balloon up easily and going the bathroom back and forth. I just get so many false flags from my digestive system and I end up passing gas a lot just by having most things dairy.
The only major allergy I have, I developed very randomly one night in my teens. I was hanging out with friends, I always loved cats, and they had this adorable cat that got super sweet with me. Next thing I know, my eyes are almost swollen shut. I've never been able to touch cats again.
Lots of things. The main one is dust mites. Any clothes that I have in my closet or drawers that I haven't worn for a while will make me sneeze uncontrollably for an hour if I pick them up. Same if I get a spare sheet from the linen closet, if it's been in there for months, it will set me off. When I vacuum the house, I need to use one of those hypoallergenic HEPA vacuum filters. Dust mites are everywhere all the time, no matter how well you clean your house. Technically it is the shedded and disintegrated shells of dead dust mites that people are allergic to, it accumulates over time in places the mites live.
Other than that, I'm also quite badly allergic to black mold, and have a reaction to pollen and grass seeds.
I've never taken a proper allergy test, I've probably got others I don't even know about.