acealmighty13
New member
Hello everyone,
I am new to this site but not new to what I am allergic to which is PORK!!
I have been allergic to pork for sometime now..like years.. I keep a food dairly of when it first happen and what I ate to cause it..
Its been very hard for me to eat out in public knowing that I am allergic to pork because there is so many hidden ways you can injest pork..
I do not eat pork anymore .. right now.. my worse fears is CROSS CONTIAMNATION ..which is... when a chef in a resturant cooks my chicken on a grill where some sort of pork has been cooked ...I still get my allergic reactions..
I have the same problem when a rubber glove is used to pick up ham and then they pick up my turkey.. I still get the cross cantiamnation from this too.. It has really gotten bad now..
Just the other day I went to logans steak house and had a chicken salad there..I had told the waitress no bacon bits Im extremly allergic to pork.. she said ok.. salad arrived looking good.. but to my suprise about 10 min after eating it my thumb felt strange.. which this has never happen before so it didnt allert me.. my thumb was itchy,felt like it was swelling and tight..
about one hour later I had hives all over me! that night which was thursday my lower lip started swelling.. by friday morning my lip was so big.. I refused to go to work!! I stayed home took benadryle and sleep till 2pm.. woke up and it was better.. In the mean time there was a hive on my left arm.. the muscle part.. that is growing in size.. it is now saturday night 11pm central time and i have marked my arm with a ink pen ..since 3pm today this welp has grown 2 inches.. It is red, swollen, warm to the touch and itchy.. I do not scratch because this makes it worse! In the last 30 min..it has grown alittle longer..I have been marking it with a Ink pen and my daughter has been taking digital pictures of my arm..
I have talked to my Doctors about this..I have been tested to see what I am allegic to.. My doctor thinks I am nuts and that I am not allergic to pork.. How does he know..He has never tested it on me.. If it touches my tonuge that is it.. I dont even have to swollew the meat.. its that bad! plus now my main concern is the CROSS-CONATIMATION that I have to deal with when I go out in public to eat!
Ive had to stop eating at some of my favorite resturants because of the hives, and swealling of body parts..
Is there a doc out there that actually speciallizes in this kind of reaction?? And what can be done about this?? I am so tired of having to worry if I wont wake up one day.. I have been to the emergency rooms in the past.. I have felt that swellen in the throat.. It gets bad sometimes.. when I have the hives I usally dont go see a doctor..nothing they can do anyway!! I just have to learn to deal with this and be very carefull as to what I eat and what I dont eat now days..
Please people if u think u are allergic to some sort of food.. get a note book, date it, put down what u ate and what the reaction was to this..keep it for as long as u have this problem.. This is about the only way to figure out what U are allergic to.. sometimes it takes a while to pin point what it is..
Thanks for reading my long problem..
Bluedust