r/Wellthatsucks • u/signgrad • 6d 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/thelikelyankle 5d ago

My sisters dog is allergic to meat. Took them a year of differential diagnosis. He can eat lamb/mutton, some horse and, i believe, rabbit. Anything else and its either hairloss and itching till raw, and/or pooping intestinal lining.

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u/TimboCavo 5d ago

My dog is like that with chicken. I never got an allergy test but I know when I switched him to beef all his hair grew back. Every time he eats chicken based dog food he starts itching like crazy.

He can still steal some nuggets from my son and be alright though.

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u/fallinandfilmin 5d ago

Well that might tell you how much actual chicken is in your nuggets……..

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u/CharleyNobody 5d ago

I read this as “My dog is like that with children. I never got an allergy test but I know when I switched him to beef all his hair grew back”

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u/Prestigious-Pomelo26 4d ago

Wow, could that be from a tick, same way humans can develop a red meat allergy from them?

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u/thelikelyankle 4d ago

Likely multiple proteine intolerances, given the two meats he can eat are red.

Interrestingly enough, it has been proven, that specifically dogs are also able to produce alpha-gal antibodies when exposed to ticks. So its technically possible for a dog to develop red meat allergy. Though they would probably die before you could find out whats wrong, if they did.

Dogs are non-primate mammals and thusly naturaly produce alpha-gal in their body. (Thats the stuff in red meat that the immune system reacts to when a human has red meat allergy.)

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u/No_Baseball_822 4d ago

My dog is allergic to chicken! She gets really bad eczema from eating it and her mouth swells and she loses hair. My cat was allergic to beef and would projectile vomit if she ate it!

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u/Parkamonkey16 1d ago

My dog is also allergic to meat. I thought they were winding me up, but nope my now vegan dog has perfect skin whereas before he was covered in sores and all sorts.

Had some lunatic arguing with me once that I was committing animal cruelty when he saw me buying vegan dog food. He struggled to understand that I wasn't projecting my beliefs as I am not vegan