I'm starting to feel better so I'm hoping the new approach I'm taking is working. I'm going to give it a week or two and then will report.

The visit with Lisa went well. It had been three weeks since my last visit so I had a lot of things to test. I was allergic to the Robitussin expectorant I was taking. Sure could have contributed to feeling lousy. She said just about everyone she tests for that has a problem.

I wear a lot of non-iron shirts. I tested a washed one once and it was fine. A few weeks ago I put one on that hadn't been washed and I started sneezing etc. So I took one in and sure enough, it was bad. So I guess I'll always wash before wearing. No telling what kind of chemicals are in those. Not exactly something that an allergic person should be wearing, but I love them and don't want to give them up. It's so funny. If that reaction had happened months ago I would have just thought it was pollen or dust and never have connected it to anything else. Once you have cleared a lot of things when you have a reaction it's so much easier to be a detective and figure it out.

Mmmmmmmmm. I wonder if I should check out the dry cleaned clothes.

Of the two eye solutions from the optometrist, one was bad,- proparacaine. It is used in the eye as an anesthetic to numb the pain that may occur during eye procedures. So that is what I'm clearing now. I knew there was something causing a problem every time I get an eye exam. Should solve the problem when I go in next week for my checkup.

Posted by elizabeth | Filed under: Allergies

1. Posted by Jon on March 5, 2009