kittay
August 27th, 2003, 10:56 PM
Alright, I had a post about my canker sore here before but it seems to have run away. At that time, it was just a mild annoyance that sprung up every month or so... but now I'm having it happen atleast once a week, and on top of this one recurring main sore little ones have been popping up elsewhere in my mouth too.
So, yeah some of the things I tried to soothe it with helped, but nothing seems to let me avoid having to suffer through them at all. I took note of what I was eating before they hit, and most of the time it had tomatos so it looks like my old sensitivity to them has gotten really serious. Fine, I'm avoiding every little bit(sauce in a can of beans that I didn't even think about got me) of tomatos now.
But then it happened last week with a baked potato, and just now with cornbread dressing that looks pretty innocent. So wtf...
I just decided I might try to uprgrade my diet to somewhere in between vegan and macrobioitic, eliminate nightshades as much as possible(just about ready to give up my beloved tomatoes and potatoes, then there's peppers that i just can't see parting with too) but then the cornbread thing happened to really confuse me and doubt that it'd even help.
Sorry this is starting to get so long, but I'm wondering if any of you have contact allergies like this, if you think I should start taking over the counter meds regularly to prevent it, or if I need to go to an allergist to try finding out what all I'm having a problem with.
I avoid most meds, but my best friend insisted on buying me some when my lip swole up while we were out to eat, and I just settled for the one with two animal products on the end of the ingredients list. My mother wants to take me shopping tomorrow, and she takes a little dephenhydramine pill everyday, has for thirty years, to keep from breaking out in hives constantly. So if I can find a small dose like that that won't be knocking me out, that hopefully isn't red from carmine, should I just go for that?
I feel weird posting this here, not sure what exactly I'm wanting to hear... I just need some kinda support cuz this is driving me crazy and it feels like my body is just turning against me or something.
So, yeah some of the things I tried to soothe it with helped, but nothing seems to let me avoid having to suffer through them at all. I took note of what I was eating before they hit, and most of the time it had tomatos so it looks like my old sensitivity to them has gotten really serious. Fine, I'm avoiding every little bit(sauce in a can of beans that I didn't even think about got me) of tomatos now.
But then it happened last week with a baked potato, and just now with cornbread dressing that looks pretty innocent. So wtf...
I just decided I might try to uprgrade my diet to somewhere in between vegan and macrobioitic, eliminate nightshades as much as possible(just about ready to give up my beloved tomatoes and potatoes, then there's peppers that i just can't see parting with too) but then the cornbread thing happened to really confuse me and doubt that it'd even help.
Sorry this is starting to get so long, but I'm wondering if any of you have contact allergies like this, if you think I should start taking over the counter meds regularly to prevent it, or if I need to go to an allergist to try finding out what all I'm having a problem with.
I avoid most meds, but my best friend insisted on buying me some when my lip swole up while we were out to eat, and I just settled for the one with two animal products on the end of the ingredients list. My mother wants to take me shopping tomorrow, and she takes a little dephenhydramine pill everyday, has for thirty years, to keep from breaking out in hives constantly. So if I can find a small dose like that that won't be knocking me out, that hopefully isn't red from carmine, should I just go for that?
I feel weird posting this here, not sure what exactly I'm wanting to hear... I just need some kinda support cuz this is driving me crazy and it feels like my body is just turning against me or something.