allergy: ragweed. Ragweed season kills me. (Late August to Late September/Early October)
Copy that. It makes me sore all over.
Back when St. Johns Wort was all the rage, I would randomly get nausea and hives when taking them. One day I would be fine, the next within 30 minutes of taking a pill I would get ill to the point of wanting to barf for hours and hours. I never did throw up, but it took a toll on me.
Also, vicodin doesn’t do a thing for me. I guess that’s an intolerance?
I have an intolerance of corn (the American grain). I first pass loose stools, then move on to slightly explosive diarrhea, and then begin passing straight stomach acid (or some orange goo that burns) and abdominal cramping. This happens with popcorn, corn grits, American beer made from corn, corn bread, corn meal, corn flour, corn starch, but not corn syrup. Imodium stops the process. Pepso-Bismal does not. PB just time shifts the reaction while I stops it completely (so far). Grocery shopping takes extra time because we have to read the ingredient list on everything.
I am lactose intolerant and also allergic to penicillin. That’s about it, normally I get a reaction to bug bites but nothing more serious than itching and a raised red site around the bite.
No allergies that I’m aware of but sensitivity, fraking heck. CAT FLEAS. I hardly have any contact with cats, I feed a stray that lives in my garage and the bastards mostly get me in the ankles. Ankle bites aren’t too bad since there’s hardly any meat for them to bite into (just get just itchy blisters) But a few weeks ago one got me on the back of a knee and my whole leg swelled up. From one flea bite. I was walking round like Greg House for a week.
Before anyone pulls me up for cat cruelty I have treated Scruffy with some parasite repellent and the fleas do seem to be on the run.
I’ve been told that something like a third of the population lacks the enzyme to process the magic ingredient in Vicodin, so that they get no pain relief from it, and also no high. I wouldn’t call it an intolerance, because you don’t get a negative reaction such as hives or swelling or itching to it, do you? You just don’t get a positive reaction (pain relief and happiness) to it.
Allergies: Penicillin, Cats
I’ve only had penicillin once, and I broke out in a full-body rash.
Last time I was around a lot of cats, I had a horrible reaction, could barely breathe, and was laid out for 3 days. No fun at all.
Intolerances: Eggs, Dairy
Eggs give me horrible headaches, which pain relievers don’t really help. I’m pretty sure it’s the whites (protein), since I can have a small amount of egg yolk without problem.
Un-cultured dairy (milk, ice cream) generally makes me feel crappy, achey, and foggy all over. I’m fine with cheese, yogurt, etc.
Lots: dust, pollen (all kinds), dog and cat dander, tree nuts, berries, and random perfumes/detergents/chemicals.
Fortunately none of them are “throat swells shut” types – they either trigger asthma, or I break out in an oozing rash. Unfortunately, that means when I break out in a rash it takes a while to figure out what is causing it.
When they switched detergents for our work uniforms, it took months to figure out what was causing the rash – up until the “sleeves of pus” incident it could have been anything causing it.
I finally figured out last week that my weird blistery rash that I get on my hands from seemingly nowhere does in fact have a cause, which is a dog allergy. That puts the kibosh on our search for a puppy. 
Store brand sour cream will translate into a long night on the throne for me.
This is me as well, took me a long time to figure out what the hell was going on. I’ve also recently, as in the last few weeks, found out that bananas can cause the same damn thing. I could have sworn that I saw it on wikipedia as well, but haven’t been able to locate the page that onions, garlic and bananas are all in the same family.
allergies: 3 antibiotics, nickel.
Raw onions seem to have an adverse affect on my digestive system, so I assume that’s a bit of an intolerance, but no issues when cooked.
That’s about it, so I consider myself pretty lucky. Cannot imagine how much lactose intolerance would suck! I get heartburn pretty easily (generally from just not being in a calm emotional state) and milk has soothed my stomach many times. sometimes the antacids for the heartburn cause a whole mess of stomach upset, nothing like a cool glass of skim to get everything calmed back down.
Allergies: poison ivy (so much so my eyes once swelled shut)
Sensitivities: I’m really sensitive to having too much sugar (it makes me sick to my stomach if I have more than a few cookies or a small piece of cake at a time) and also to lots of fat, particularly saturated fat, which quickly turns my guts into a roiling mass of nasty
Intolerance: fake fats or whatever the heck is in baked chips and Cheetos
Lynn Bodoni, that’s interesting to know about vicodin. I also have very little reaction to it. When I had shingles, a dose of vicodin lasted me about an hour. The same is true for most other anasethetics for some reason.
Allergies: I used to have lots of hayfever, but that’s gotten better now that I know my intolerances.
Intolerance: gluten and various related proteins. That means no wheat, rye, or barley. No bread. No pasta. No beer (unless it’s specialty sorghum beer). No pastries. Nothing with malt.
The good thing is that once I stopped eating anything with wheat, rye, or barley, my migraines went away. As did all my intestinal difficulties, achy joints, and much of my depression.
It makes me wonder though. Would it be possible to come up with an enzyme that digests gluten before it causes those problems? Kind of like how someone with lactose intolerance can take a lactase supplement?
Me too, only I know exactly when it started: in my senior year in college. Before that I had the usual welts from mosquito bites, but in my senior year I got my first real research-type job, which involved looking after an insect breeding colony. One of the insects was mosquitoes. After the first week and the first fifty or so bites from escapers, I started breaking out in a big itchy welt after each bite. As a kid I could sleep through mosquito bites, but now if I’m bitten in my sleep the itching is so intense it wakes me up. By coincidence I was taking a basic immunology class at the time, and learned this is called a “wheal and flare” reaction.
Other allergic reactions: contact dermatitis from nickel (no cheap jewelery for me).
Intolerance: I get a weird skin reaction (red, itchy, rough, but not scaly) to powdered latex gloves. It’s weird because it’s only powdered gloves, and it doesn’t matter what they’re powdered with–talc, cornstarch, it doesn’t matter. Powder-free gloves, I can wear all day; it is definitely NOT latex allergy (I even had a patch test to make sure of that). I can wear powdered gloves briefly, but a couple of days of wear and I start reddening and itching. The dermatologist I saw seemed as puzzled as I was, and could only recommend I wear only powder-free gloves.
Me too. In fact, all analgesics have that potential. When I had pancreatitis I was getting shot up with dilaudid with a phenergan chaser to keep me from barfing up straight, unbuffered stomach acid (no eating when you have pancreatitis) and eating up my esophagus. It didn’t always work. :mad:
I’m lactose intolerant. I probably gave a sensitivity to gluten. I keep trying to go gluten free for a week to see if I feel better, but the lure of baked goods is strong and I am weak.
I’m allergic to penicillin and everything in that family.
I’m allergic to latex. This is becoming a big reason to stop eating in restaurants because there are still some which have their kitchen staffers in latex gloves because they’re cheaper than the close-fitting versions that are non-latex. sigh
Bee stings are bad. Spider bites are also bad, but not as bad.
Ragweed is awful. Cedar, in Texas, is worse. This is one of dozens of reasons why I don’t live there any more.
I thought I was the only one who had this sort of reaction to cigarette smoke. It makes me feel like I’ve been beaten up. Yuck.
Are you able to use nitrile gloves?
I get severe, unbearable, appendicitis-like stomach pains from it. Like Irishgirl I often list it as an allergy just to make sure I avoid it.
Like a few other previous posters, I’m lactose intolerant. I can have a little milk in my coffee, and I occasionally have Greek-style yogurt with strawberries, but otherwise I avoid dairy unless I have my lactase pills on hand.
I suffer from migraines, usually triggered by red wine, excess dark chocolate or raw onions, and lack of sleep. The last one I had was on Sunday, the day after my sister’s baby shower. My mom had made some stewed chicken with lots of olives, capers and chicken bouillon powder, and I loaded up on it since I love olives and other pickled foods. I don’t know if it was the sodium or the acidity of the olives that triggered the migraine. If so, I may have to add olives or anything with vinegar to my forbidden foods list.
(Hmm, as I type this, I realize Mom may have added red wine vinegar to the chicken as she cooked it. Hadn’t thought of that. I’ll have to ask her, but she may have forgotten by now.)
Over the past year, I’ve noticed I’m allergic to dust as well as pet dander. This means I can no longer allow my cat to sleep at the foot of the bed like I used to, and I can’t brush the dogs or cat either. I can at least pet the dogs after they’ve been bathed and brushed, since they’re both short-haired. I wish I could sit with the cat on my lap like I used to, or visit my other sister (the twin of the pregnant one) and her two cats without taking Benadryl first.
I’m also allergic to smoke. The week or so that the Station fire was burning up most of the San Gabriel mountains was hell for me.