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Since my allergy reaction is a swollen throat to most of my allergens, taking a chance is not really something I can afford. For years they thought I might have lupus because of my constantly swollen throat, salivary glands and lymph nodes - but I never presented with the lupus trademark "butterfly" marking so they couldn't positively diagnose it. Now that I'm off the allergens, the swelling is down - I know exactly when I messed up and check what I ate. Today I ate blue cheese today and payed the price with a swollen throat for a couple of hours - my guess it may have been a mold reaction. Bleh!
Every week or so they make me show them my epi pen before they'll give me my shots. That's crazy that you had a reaction that late in the shot process. Does it make you wonder if they mixed it wrong? They are supposed to go up very gradually.
My son's allergy doctor had a great illustration on how the allergies work. Each day you have a "cup" of allergies your body can tolerate. When that "cup" overflows that is when you have the bad reactions. So on that day of the shot, I probably had filled my "cup" to that point and the shot overfilled it. And the way my allergist did it was I was on my last vile and working larger and larger doses of that concentrate(90%) and my body said enough. I tell you though before the series I wound get bronchitis and pneumonia a couple of times a year. Now maybe once every 5 years. And the blue cheese
, we are not supposed to eat mold.
