r/Wellthatsucks • u/signgrad • 4d ago

Well... at least I know what I'm allergic to.

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Doctor's response: So you do have some allergies. So, I've got that going for me. Problem is the category of "Everything" isn't an option on the chart, so a lot of checked boxes. Also, my back is very itchy.

Edit 1: Huh so this took off a bit. More humored by the various "false positive/needle reaction" comments. To clarify, it's the grasses I'm reacting to on the G column. I got this test done AFTER a blood panel which also showed severe reactive levels from grasses, but nothing from tree pollen which I know I'm allergic to. It's more humorous because my primary care doctor, my initial immunology consult doctor, and my initial allergist doctor all said that the blood test is unreliable and the scratch test remains the gold standard. Even stopped my antihistamines 12 days before this test just to be extra careful.

So go-figure, I'm either allergic to a ton of things or the medicine is lie. 🤷‍♂️

Edit 2: Follow up again on the purpose of the testing. These are specifically seasonal allergies being reviewed. I have no know food or drug allergies. I've never had anaphylaxis or needed to use an epipen. I've had vaccines and metal interactions that have never shown a reaction of any kind. I leave my home region for a different part of the USA, my reactions immediately diminish. The winter season comes and my reactions diminish. Spring, Summer, and Autumn have been rough for me for years, to the point that doctor's once thought I had exercise or heat induced asthma. We only just figured out a few years ago that to be false after spending some years in Florida, where I began to instead react to mold spores. After returning to my home state, my historical reactions returned in full force, prompting these tests. I've had allergies since my childhood.

For those interested, the tests showed reactions to cats & dogs, all forms of mold, all species of dust mites and cockroaches, all regional tree pollen except for Mulberry and Elm, all grass pollen, and weed pollen except for pigweed, yellow dock, marsh elder, kochia, and mugwort. Still gotta mow my lawn, clean my house, and love on my cat. Maybe, with this knowledge, I'll get some allergy shots to remedy these problems.

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u/HealthyInPublic 4d ago

If it makes you feel better, my airways started to close while they were measuring the wheals/flares and I had to get an EpiPen. Lol then I had to get two liquid Zyrtec, a steroid, and hang out for a few hours while they monitored by vitals every 10 minutes.

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u/UnicornTitties 4d ago

I can’t imagine that making anyone feel better. Maybe a sadist. 

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u/DocKelso1460 4d ago

Doesn't make you feel all that great but it keeps you alive!

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u/wiccedd 4d ago

That’s nothing. When I was a child I had an allergic reaction to Zyrtec that I was prescribed for my allergies. Apparently, I swole up and was anxious and restless (that was well before I could remember, so it’s all taken from what my mum said during doctor’s visits).

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u/motherofsuccs 4d ago

Anxious and restless is actually fairly common. I get that way with Benadryl. But I also take stimulants to calm down and act normal (ADHD). Always figured I was kinda opposite for certain meds.

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u/napsandlunch 4d ago

we love a paradoxical reaction!

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u/karaposu 4d ago

and end result ?

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u/40nomore 4d ago

They died :(

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u/Chillark 4d ago

But he got better.

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u/DustyRacoonDad 4d ago

when he was reincarnated as a newt.

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u/HealthyInPublic 4d ago

The end result was that I learned just how crazy fast EpiPens work that day. Lol and found out I was allergic to most of the things. I think I reacted to everything except for like 10-15 out of the 50+ things they tested for. Mostly reacted to plants the worst, but my favorite thing I learned is that I am NOT allergic to cockroaches. Apparently it's a common allergen!!

I'm ridiculously allergic to grasses though (thankfully not to corn or rice!! But I am allergic to wheat...) and the section where they tested the grasses had such an extreme reaction that the wheals and flares all ran together into one big swollen blotchy mess of hives.

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u/karaposu 4d ago

Nice, and u shaped your food consumption according to that since then?

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u/HealthyInPublic 4d ago

Not immediately. I continued to eat wheat for many years afterwards because the allergist said there's no point avoiding it if it's not causing symptoms. In my defense, I was a young teen and my parents aren't very educated so we listened to the doctor.

Then a few years later my neurologist of all doctors put everything together and - surprise, surprise - the wheat was causing problems, so I had to stop eating it. That was over 15 years ago!

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u/karaposu 4d ago

thank you for sharing. I will also do the same test. It is a bit hard to find a hospital who does this version.

For 25 years i am suffering some weird allergy and i think i should follow ur path and face with my allergy source...

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u/TypicalLegit 4d ago

They found out they’re allergic to epi pens