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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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First, I have allergies, all sorts of allergies, dust, dander, animal fur, moulds of every variety, feathers, all kinds of scents and perfumes..... to name but a few.....
I also have bad sinuses due to an incident a long time ago that resulted in several bune fragments from the cheek/forehead area to be imbedded in my sinus cavities. They are affected by moisture, temperature and barometric changes.
Today I was trapped in a miasma of all these nasty things and conditions... Add to it the fact that it was just damn cold outside and it summs up the situation to one of complete misery.
I now have a world class migrane, I just managed to stop my second nose bleed of the evening and I can not take any more medication for risk of taking too much.... not a good thing! I can not turn my head without excruciating pain and laying down is absolutly out of the question.
I am looking forward to a long long long long night...... :'-(
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Hi Marc,
Well I am lucky that my allergies are some fairly weird ones and dont affect my breathing at all.....at least not yet.
I did have a lot of headaches when I was working in homes as an electrician. They would occur mainly when I was doing the finishing work or working in fairly new homes with new carpeting, woodwork, etc. The fumes from those things would give me awful headaches to the point I would become nauseous and sometimes actually have to visit the porcelain god.
My real bad allergy is to colored socks which have been easy to avoid since it first occured to me when I was about 33 or 34 years old. I thought at first it was poison ivy as I had been camping and then I proceeded to accuse the new boots of doing the trick to me. Then I thought it was the laundry detergent but finally reasoned it should have had me itching in my groin and whereever I had tight fitting clothing. It came down to the socks after a process of elimination. Some of the socks had almost all the coloring washed out of them and I had them for a long time.
I went for years with no further problem except for when I would wear some knee length fuzzy style socks and so I avoided those too. I was then hard put to find socks to wear for skiing.
Then came the ultimate for me; I became alergic to footwear. I had some new gym shoes (athletic shoes or trainers as you call them) and I thought they were nice and comfortable. Soft bottoms and nice for walking. I developed these blisters just like a bunch of prickly heat which joined into being very large blisters and it would itch like hell. I thought I had gotten some kind of athletes foot at first and even went to the doctor for something to use to combat it. Several weeks later, when the blisters had healed up, I had occassion to use the shoes again. This time the reaction was severe and I ended up with an infection as well. I had the red streaks running up both of the insides of my legs by the time I got to the doctor and he gave me massive doses of anti-biotics and I survived. I was in misery for a month though. Those blister would dry up and leave me with jagged sharp pieces of skin on the bottom of my feet and the itching had been deep within the callused areas of my foot also. Once when I walked without first soaking my feet in water, I left a bloody trail. It was not fun.
Now I play Russian Roulette trying to find shoes I can wear without breaking out in hives and having this several week-long bought of itching and itching agian. Not a good thing. I try to get shoes with white insides and just pray I wont break out again.
I guess I cant complain too much as I am going to be 67 in July and it is about the only thing I have wrong with me so far.
Now if I could just find a cute roommate about 18 yrs old........etc.
Ken
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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It sounds to me as if you are having a reaction to the glues used in your shoes.
Once, I had a reaction to something, I think I was 15 or 16 at the time... I developed puffy red splotches all over my body.... They were itchy as hell and my Grandmother made me go to a doctor.....
I hate doctors!
The dope said he thought it was scarlet feaver.... I repeat.... He was a dope!! and I was promptly placed into an isolation room.... A few days later I came down with a massive case of hepatitus.... Apparently I contracted it while in the looney hospital.... Go figure!!! That all took some 4 or 5 weeks to resolve itself.... Damn I hate doctors!!!
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Well Marc,
My philosophy is to avoid doctors and hospitals if I can. I even told my doctor that I hoped I didn't have to see him at all except to have a physical every two or three years. He laughed and agreed with me really.
We have a good relationship and he will not try to prescribe anything to me that he cant prove with a control study having been done on it, that it will be effective in treating me.
I think like Mark Twain that you need to have at least a couple of bad habits to give up when you are ailing and need the help from a doctor. He admitted to doing all kinds of things bad for himself such as smoking and drinking and swearing and eating all kinds of bad things etc. Gave them all up when he became ill with gout at the doctor's orders, but then when he was cured he took to doing them again.
He then told about a lady friend that was ailing and the doctors had about given up on her. So he told her she had to give up smoking and drinking and all those bad things. She said she didn't do any of those things! So Mr Twain says: "Well, there you are! She was a sinkin' ship with no frieght to throw overboard; she was a moral pauper! Why just one or two bad habits would have saved her!".
I always think of that and even told it to my doctor. He told me that if all his patients were like me, he would have to find a part time job to make ends meet. And then he laughed and said it made his day.
Yeah well if you want to stay healthy then stay away from hospitals!!!
Ken
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A good principle to live by is "everything in moderation". There's no point in living unless you make the most of what life has to offer -- but not too much, otherwise it loses value.
The corrollary, of course, is "nothing to excess", and that applies to doctors as much as anything else.
David
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