? In regard to foods and meds. | Arthritis Information

There are a number of people on the board who report having food and med. sensitivities or allergies.
I'm curious. Did the food sensitivities or allergies develop after taking medications or were they already an issue for you? If they were already an issue were they made worse after taking meds?
hi watchingwolf i have developed a allergy to chicken.. i linked it to the ra
not the meds . the only meds i have taken the whole 13yrs are prednisone
and co.dydramol. maybe one of them causing it.. Skin prick test showed I'm very allergic to:

My home has a lovely big garden full of all the above and it backs onto fields!

Mildy allergice to:

Cats

Dogs

Horses

Dust mites

and amazingly not at all to mould (thats the only one that didnt swell)

These have all become (according to the ENT Consult), chronic since the RA. I have to say that before the Ra if I itched my eyes the jelly bit round the pupil swelled, now the whole eye and under eye swell terribly.... thats a good reason not to itch I hate even thinking of one more thing, i have to give up.. but Pork sigh, i've noticed

a big difference and guess what i ate today!! LOL (nothing else much in fridge)..

but i love piggies, so maybe it'll be good for me..

I found out I was allergic to sulfa and I also break out in rashes from mtx, humira and enbrel. I now take enbrel and take benedryl a half hour before shot and take it for two days every four hours. A couple of weeks ago, I had to go to prompt care for a shot because the benedryl wasn't working and I was broke out on face, neck, arms, legs, and back. I was itching all over. I also had to take benedryl with the humira. I also have allergies to birds, cats, dogs, anything with dander/fur, grass, flowers, seasonal. I don't have allergies to shellfish when I eat it but found out when we were down in MS that I can't peel raw shrimp. My hands broke out and were so swollen I couldn't bend my fingers. I can't go to lil sis's house because she has 3 cats and 2 dogs and I can't take benedryl and stay awake. I have left her house before with one eye swollen shut and itching like crazy. As far back as I can remember I have had allergies. My mom says my eyes and nose were always running. It's really bad in the spring. Geez, now I'm itching just thinking/writing about it. LOLI have to watch for some food allergies and I have to be careful around anything from the pine tree family, if I get stuck by a needle from a pine tree, I start swelling and have breathing problems. My daughter has a severe allergic reaction to any pesticides whatso ever. My allergies have always been there even before my auto-immune problems.

I was never sick before Ra , No allergies no nothing.

I always had hayfever type allergies and allergies to cats and dogs and such. I became aware of my medication allergies (mostly antibiotics) after taking the medications. These all happened years and years ago so I don't think they were associated with the RA at all. I don't know if you can say I developed the allergies from taking the meds or that I was already allergic and just became aware of it when I took the meds. Sort of a 'which came first the chicken or the egg' type of thing.
Copyright ArthritisInsight.com