January 19, 2007

Have you ever asked yourself why me?

I can say that I have asked that a few times and sometimes it's very frustrated. The reason I am saying this is because I have asked this each time I have discovered another food I am severely allergic too. Yes I am anaphylactic to a number of foods and sometimes it is very upsetting.

It's hard dealing with these allergies as most of the foods I am allergic to are foods that I have been eating most of my life. The last food I just discovered as being allergic to is shellfish and I have never really liked it so I don't miss it. I do miss some of the other foods that I can no longer have. I am allergic to cottonseed, pineapple, raspberries and shellfish. I am also anaphylactic to codeine and all of these lift threatening allergies have developed since I have been an adult. Yes I am adult onset anaphylatic.

Somedays are really good and other days are rotten. I think what is frustrating is the number of people that don't understand allergies and figure that they know better than me how to handle them.

What I am going to try and do in this blog is explain some of the good days and even some of the bad days and the fears that I deal with while living with this. Some of the fears are not wanting to eat after having a severe attack but getting through it.

I hope this helps others deals with the emotional roller coaster that we all go through.