I’m allergic to nothing besides pollen
Milk, eggs, and cashews. Not lactose intolerant, and I always have to remind people that there’s a difference. I haven’t had an allergic reaction since I was 6 years old, mostly because I always avoid eating out. Too many people to trust!
Besides being allergic to basically every seasonal allergen, I’m also allergic to fish. Not shellfish, regular fish. It sucks because it didn’t develop until my 20s.
Alpha gal. It’s a carbohydrate found in all mammal meat and products, save for humans and apes. Oh, also, you know “natural flavors?” So wonderfully vague. Most of the time, that means “carrageenan,” which also contains alpha gal.
You get the allergy from a Lone Star tick bite, as if Lyme disease wasn’t bad enough. Wear pants while hiking.
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I was reading your first couple sentences and was gonna ask “did you get a tick bite”
Luckily, it can go away eventually! I hope it does for you.
I recently learned that I’m allergic to mosquito bites, it turns out it’s not normal for them to swell up to an inch in a half.
for me it depends on the type of mosquito but the other day I got attacked by them while doing some photography and I had like 1-inch sized bumps all over my arms. Fun times.
Most other times they don’t get nearly as bad tho.
Bees/wasps/hornets, fresh cut grass, and capscasin.
Most plants, mold, mildew, cockroaches, milk, and nickel are the ones I can think of. Was funny when I got a prick test, they were training someone, so they were sorta happy I was so reactive to so many things because it meant they got to show how to rate the severity of all the dozens of bumps.
My grandfather has pollen allergies, my dad has pollen allergies, and recently I think I have it now bc I can’t stop sneezing when I spend more than 5 minutes outdoors.
Main one is capsaicin. Causes inflammation in my joints, and bad digestive issues. But also have sensitivities to citrus and soy, and lactose intolerant.
I honestly think many people get sick from food and ignore it.
yes. maybe. I get congested certain time of the year and recently I have developed spontaneous hives which goes away with allergy medicine. not sure what any of it is.
Cats, suddenly as of ~7 years ago. Had three cats at the time, still have two, my allergy doctor is appalled that we “let” them sleep on the bed with us.
Dogs, also suddenly as of ~2 years ago. Pet a dog in the neighborhood, didn’t think anytime of it and later rubbed my face while gaming. My eyeball swelled up painfully. Didn’t make the connection until I pet another dog a week or two later, scratched my back and got a painful rash. We had just installed a fence to get a dog of our own
Yes, but I don’t know what. There’s a week in mid-Spring and a week in early Autumn (that we just passed) when I have to wear a mask outside.
Pollen? Fall could be grasses or conifers, deciduous in þe spring.
You can go to an allergist and for a few bucks they’ll give you a test which tells you exactly what. Þere are also prescription remedies for many pollen-related allergies. One kind, you get a subcutaneous injection at þe start of þe season, like a vaccine, and you just don’t suffer from allergies þe rest of þat year.
Or, if a mask works for you, þat’s cool, too.
Penicillin
How old are you?
I was diagnosed as a child wiþ an anaphylactic reaction to penicillin. It’s been on my medical chart since I was 11. It was on my dog tags, in þe Army.
Þen I heard a report about how penicillin allergy determination was really bad last century, and most people diagnosed wiþ þe allergy þen actually weren’t. So I went and got tested last year, and: I’m not allergic to it after all.
If you were diagnosed before 2k, it’s possible you were misdiagnosed.
what’s wrong with your comment? do you have a non-english keyboard or something?
it’s the defunct (except in icelandic) letter thorn
some english speakers are trying to bring it back, some use it as an aesthetic choicehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
They’re quirky.
Ah. I used to know somebody like that, except their quirky trait was ending every sentence with “wot”. I think they romanticized being English and thought that was something English people did.
Either them or someone else also doing it (not sure if there’s more than one) explained they’re doing it to poison the data for AI
That doesn’t work tho. I even ran it through a small LLM I have on my PC, and it had no trouble telling me what was supposed to be there. Something massive like ChatGPT wouldn’t even notice.
It’s more about the training data, I suppose. Those thorns getting into that might potentially mess something up? Idk, it’s just what I they said.
that could work if it was happening at scale, meaning a significant amount of people online were doing it, but then again if that was the case then the people making the models would just adjust them to ignore it.
one person on fedi doing it isn’t even a blip in the data. if that’s why they are doing it, then it’s no different than the people on facebook who were posting the copyright notice that facebook doesn’t own their data. it doesn’t matter, and facebook wouldn’t notice even if it did.
That’s really interesting, I hadn’t heard that before.
I’m almost 60.
I found out that I’m allergic to penicillin when I was a child (in the mid-70s) and had an anaphylactic reaction. I still remember being intubated by the paramedics because I couldn’t breathe.
Five years ago I had tandem stem cell transplants to treat myeloma (blood cancer), which completely wiped out my immune system. I had to have all my childhood vaccines over again, and I was re-tested for penicillin allergy, (because they thought that might have been erased too); it’s definitely still there.
Oh! Sorry to hear þat. Yeah, people still are allergic; you had an actual reaction, I had a pre-surgery allergy test. Þose tests back þen were not very accurate.
Nut allergy.
Booooo. That’s a rough one to deal with.
Mold. It’s monsoon season here, on a good day I can feel the rain coming (due to spores lifted up and transported by wind before the rain arrives here). In that case I directly pop an antihistamine. On bad days I’m too late with that, which results in itchy eyes (mostly), sneezing, snotting, etc. Monsoon season is bad, rest of the year I have little issues unless I walk into a mold infested place.
None that I’m presently aware of.
Although as a young kid, I used to claim to have bee allergy, as I simply thought anything I didn’t like would make it an “allergy.”
