LOL....lets compare allergies....lol

My list of allergies is Penicillin, Keflex, Cipro, Benadryl, codeine, asprin, compazine, reglan, albuterol, foradil, lidocaine, novacaine. I had horrible reactions to all the old migraine meds. They caused horrible heart problems that made them impossible to take. I have such bad reactions to all AD's, I just lump them all together as something I can't take. Some of the major reactions were migraines, anorexia, parkinsons symptoms, joints that couldn't move, I am so allergic to smoke (especially cigarete smoke & fire smoke). I get pneumonia & have asthma attacks from that. We had a bad forest fire 2 years ago that sent it's smoke into our valley (a hawk flew into some power lines & broke them, starting a fire). It was horrible for several days. I ended up in the ER cause I couldn't breath. The breathing treatment they did with albuterol ended up messing up my potassium level (way too low). I got up from the gurney to go to the bathroom & collapsed on the floor. That was when they took the blood test & found my potassium was dangerously low. My own GP ended up putting my into the hospital for what was to be 3 days of breathing treatments every 4 hours. Well, they started to give me the foradil because I couldn't use advair & I my throat got so swollen I lost my voice. I ended up in the hospital for 10 days because my GP wouldn't let me go home in worse condition than when I came in. I realized it was an allergic reaction to the foradil & it took 3 days for the reaction to go away after stopping the med. Then when I was in the hospital last year for the anorexia, I ended up with horrible infections. For some reason, the infection came from the central line site they figured out. the worse part of the central line was that they did it without any numbing because of my allergy to the lidocaine/novacaine which they use to numb the site before they do the little surgery to insert the line into the vein. That was painful for sure......it doesn't pay to be allergic to some things. They found out about that alergy when they did the PICC line just before I left the hospital for my mothers funeral. I am continually finding out more & more allergies all the time.....I am now afraid to take anything new without being in a hospital situation....& I can't afford that.

It really stinks being allergic to everything doesn't it??????

Debbie