This is a real poser for the medical types on the Baord.
When my wife was pregnant with our daughter, nineteen years ago, she developed seasonal allergies. We just figured her body’s hormonal balance had been skewed somehow during the pregnancy. For the last 19 years, now, she’s sneezed her head off for a good six months out of the year. It never really went away, actually, but the pollen season exacerbated it.
Four weeks ago, she had surgery to remove her ovaries and Fallopian tubes. She had a cyst of about 11 cm on her right tube (from what I understand, a portion of the tube distended and filled with fluid, like a water balloon, but I could be wrong).
Thing is, since then, she hasn’t had any allergy symptoms. And I’d heard on the news that our region (Metro New York City) was going to be particularly nasty pollen-wise because of the climatic conditions. This is when it should begin in earnest, but it hasn’t.
Was her ovarian cyst somehow responsible for her allergies? How?
The safest answer is that the cyst was an on-going issue for her immune system, and left her immune system challenged - stressed. A challenged immune system is susceptible to allergy breakouts…even rashes, eczema, etc. Cold and sinus infections that likley went along with the ‘allergies’ might have just been seen as part of the allergy too, while all along her immune system was never quite up to snuff.
it may be that your wifes allergies are the result of indoor allergens like molds or maybe animal dander or whatever in your air system or just growing more prevalent during the closed in colder seasons.
My wife suffered with some pretty good allergy attacks before finally realizing that when she was away from home her allergy symptoms diminished.
Turned out we had some mold growing in various hidden spaces in the house.
But it was up to “sniff.”
::rimshot::
Thank you, I’ll be here all week! Try the veal!
Actually, I hadn’t thought of that scenario. We don’t know how long she had the cyst, but I suppose it could have compromised her immune system.
I don’t really think so. We’ve lived in a number of different places since our daughter was born, and it was the same everywhere we went. And we were petless until about eight or nine years ago. Evidence leads me to believe it was her more than it was her environment.