<p>Do you? What do you do besides avoid? Avoid eating, etc. </p>
<p>Yeah, I was diagnosed with adult onset allergies. I am allergic to almost everything. I take two pills and squirt Nasonex every day. Yet, I still have symptoms. </p>
<p>The worst is that I have no sense of smell most of the time. This severely impacts my sense of taste. When I get my sense of smell back occasionally and rarely, it is like heaven! </p>
<p>Another side issue is my sinuses. Sometimes it affects my hearing. Feel like I am under water. Other times I get severe tooth aches. I told my dentist about my aches before I suspected it was sinuses. Dentist could find nothing wrong with my teeth under X-ray and examination. It appears to be sinuses because it is on both sides of my face.</p>
<p>So do any of you suffer with allergies.? Any suggestions that you have found worked?</p>
<p>My DH developed horrible allergies around 24. DS is allergic to the flora in our area (though it is not as bad at his college). Neither had issues when thy were younger. Both just take OTC medicine. I think it really matters what causes your allergies. We have 4 air purifiers running in our house most of the year and change our air filters regularly. </p>
<p>We are an allergy family and have HEPA air filter units in our bedrooms. It makes a huge difference. Many people find relief from nasal symptoms with Neti pots but I never got in the habit. </p>
<p>Immunotherapy (shots) also reduced our symptoms. They are expensive and inconvenient but they did help quite a bit.</p>
<p>I developed a really bad allergy to cats as an adult, though it doesn’t impact my life since neither I nor anyone I’m around frequently owns cats. I wasn’t exposed to cats as a child and it’s not as though I started visiting people with cats or anything - it just happened.</p>
<p>A few years ago, I would find my eyes swelling up and I was tested and told I was allergic to birch trees. Yet I’ve been places with lots of birch trees and haven’t had a problem. So who knows. </p>
<p>I have a shellfish allergy as well, but I’ve had that all my life (and it’s not a big deal, since I can be around it, so I’m fine at seafood restaurants). </p>
<p>I keep pets out of my sleeping space, for one thing. Steroid sprays help a lot (including my ears) but they don’t do the whole trick. I also find that the newer antihistamines don’t do much for me. I take a generic version of something like Allegra in the morning, but I get more relief from first-generation antihistamines: chlorpheniramine, usually, or diphenhydramine (Benadryl) or doxylamine at night, because they can make you drowsy, also. Diphenhydramine and doxylamine are also good if your skin reacts too, like hives or just “blotches.”</p>
<p>My allergies started as an adult. I use a variant of the Neti pot called Sinus Rinse every day and it has improved things tremendously. Daily antihistamine and nasal spray. But worth checking with an allergist if they are that bad. </p>
<p>First get a cat scan and see if you have any long term infections. I have issues with my sphenoid sinuses. I ended up taking antibiotics 4 times, then the doc prescribed like a 3 month once a day antibiotic and I finally kicked the infection. I’ve gotten my nasal turbinates operated on.</p>
<p>When we got our new hvac system I put in a whole house air cleaner and I run a little one in my bedroom. To me the nasal spray works better than the pills. I take allegra at night and flonase spray.</p>
<p>My adult onset allergy is avocado. I love guacamole and would eat avocado with a little lime…yummm… until my lips started tingling and my lungs felt like they were filling up. </p>
<p>I have it with salt. When I eat really salty food my lips swollen. I walk around for days looking like Angelina Jolie.
So I stay away from eating directly. I’m the only one in my family that doesn’t have high bolo pressure due to my diet. If anything I have slightly lower blood pressure.</p>
<p>For us, having the robotic vacuum has helped tremendously with our dust and dust mite allergies. I too can rarely smell any more. :(. Have had allergy to crustacean and sulfites all my life. </p>
<p>My brother developed severe violent allergy to oregano as adult. His wife developed severe mint allergy–natural and artificial flavored mint make her wheeze right away. Our S developed allergy to green beans (makes him wheeze after eating just one). Fortunately, they are careful and mostly can avoid these foods but bro has stopped enjoying Italian food. </p>
<p>morrismm, any chance you have a source of mold or mildew in your house? That’s what our friends figured out was causing their family’s “allergies.” As soon as they took care of the mild problem, the sinus issues pretty much resolved.</p>
<p>Never had allergies of any kind until we bought our lake house, which is in an area rich in cedar trees. They bloom in the winter, and that’s when I get really miserable. At first I didn’t realize what was happening. I told my DH “whenever we go to the lake, I come back with a cold.” As soon as I said that, I realized I must have developed allergies to the cedar.</p>
<p>I have to use steroid nasal spray daily and take zyrtec several days prior to going out there in the winter.</p>
<p>I developed an allergy to walnuts in adulthood. I find it interesting because I never cared for their taste, but if they were in something, I would eat it and just not care. I have a personal theory - my belief is that if there’s something we don’t have a liking to, Mother Nature is giving us fair warning…don’t eat it. It’s just a theory. </p>
<p>Well, I had always liked crustaceans before I developed an allergy to it and my Sis-IL loved mint before she developed an allergy. Bro enjoyed oregano and Italian food before he developed and tracked down his allergy to it. I don’t think your theory really holds for us. H and our S is also developing crustacean allergy, tho they had enjoyed shellfish previously. </p>
<p>My S never really liked beans and once I heard him wheeze after eating JUST ONE bean, I understood why. He could eat strained green bean baby food as an infant but somehow never acquired a taste for it and now never will. Our D dearly loves animals of all sorts but is developing an allergy to them as well. :(</p>
<p>Patanase works really well, it’s a nose spray that has antihistamine in it. It’s a better alternative to Zyrtec or Claritin for my kids.</p>
<p>It seems like over the past 5 years the incidence rate of allergies has been much higher, with adults I know who never suffered from allergies complaining of them.</p>
<p>Another thing is to use a Neti pot with saline (Neilmed). It helps some people.</p>
It’s a reasonable explanation for the origin of the allergic response, but most scientific speculation I’ve read on the subject suggests that a quirk of evolution currently misapplies it. In the case of extreme responses (such as anaphylaxis) it’s hard to see how death could be a “fair warning” of anything.</p>
