Allergy update

I start my allergy shots this week, and the sooner the better.  All the troubles I have had with my heart, breathing, and with thinking came from needing my allergy shots and needing to stop the medications keeping my heart rate in check.  

Here is the list of things I am allergic too, some at life-threatening levels, which is why I have EpiPens.   Positive allergy test for Australian pine, Bermuda grass, dust mites, cat, cockroach, dog, cedar, nettle, short ragweed. Also food allergy test was positive for crab, lobster, and shrimp. Total IgE was 102 KU/L.   But that was not all.   Also there was this second set of testing.  Positive allergy test for fire ant, wasp, yellow hornet, yellow jacket, and white faced hornet. 

Interesting thing is to be allergic you have to react greater than the normal range of <0.10 and on most of the panels I was higher than that, some by a lot.    For cats, I was not that bad, just 0.14 instead of <0.10.   For dogs, I was 0.17 instead of <0.10.  Most things like mite house dust I am 8.90 and to the house dust mites I am 10.70. 

We long ago took steps to get rid of carpets and other things that trap the pollen.   I stay inside most of the time.   Ron cuts the grass.  The only plant we have is in the family room and is a big friendship bamboo randy sent me.   I have been taking allergy shots on and off since the 1990s.  Every time I get to a maintenance dose and they think I have stopped reacting, they tell me I can stop the shots.  But I gradually get sick again.  Testing confirms my allergies have come back and some stronger.  My allergist says he thinks I will just have to stay on the maintenance dose forever to have relief.   Hugs