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Has anyone noticed that their "plant and pollen" based allergies are drastically reduced well into treatment?
I have suffered very bad spring time allergies for years. They had seemed to slowly improved over the years but still I relied heavily on OTC antihistamines to get through the spring.
I am about 10 months into treatment and I did not have to use OTC antihistamines at all! Barely a scratchy throat, itchy eyes, blocked nose. The only time I really noticed it was out golfing a few times when the pollen was so thick in the air you could see it blowing. It made me sneeze a lot and have to blow my noze but this spring has been night and day difference than it use to be!
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My diet really hasn't changed. I have eaten fairly healthy for years eating mostly good carbs and staying away from sweets and sugars.
Have been athletic with a lean muscular build for years now.
It is weird that after a solid 15 years of allergies I seem to be almost completely cured of them.
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Judie
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I'm not allergic to a lot of plants and pollens, but I'm allergic to lots of chemicals and a common perfume ingredient.
My doc said that once the infection load is down, my allergies will improve because my immune system will stop attacking stuff.
I noticed a decrease in allergies with a certain set of antibiotic meds a couple months ago (then I tried something else because insurance wasn't covering them and the allergies came back).
I'm starting back on the old plan and am hoping for the same relief. I hadn't had allergy relief like that in the 15 years I've been battling with health problems.
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Kudzuslipper
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I have not had a full blown allergic rash since about 10 months into treatment. My seasonal allergies had been better but we are having a brutal Pollen season and I am feeling it this year.
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GretaM
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MTMT: YES! Me too!
Flower and weed pollens only bothered me one day so far. Normally I would need claritin or allegra twice daily throughout spring or summer.
Hopefully it means my immune system is not so autoimmune as before.
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LisaK
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my lldr told me that my 1,001 food allergies and my environmental sensitivities and allergies were probably made by lyme & co and that after treatment we will see how I am with that and then go from there.
I do feel much better and can actually eat things I haven't been able to tolerate in years!
-------------------- Be thankful in all things- even difficult times and sickness and trials - because there is something GOOD to be seen Posts: 3561 | From Eastern USA | Registered: Jul 2013
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