Seasonal Allergies

[Emme999]

Help! I am suddenly having the worst allergies of my life (due to grass, pollen, whatever). It's really bad - my throat gets tight and I can hardly swallow, even when inside. There's also a whole lot of that gross stuff draining down my throat.

What I want to know is: Is this related to Celiac? I've never really had allergies before, but now I can hardly breathe. What exactly is going on with our immune systems anyway? Are they just out of control now?

Please educate me!

- Michelle

p.s. If you can recommend a good allergy medication that's gluten free, I'd love to hear about it!

[jaimek]

I have always had seasonal allergies but this year is extremely bad for some reason. I have been gluten-free for over a year so I didn't really think one had anything to do with the other. A good medicine is Claritan. It is gluten-free and works wonders for me!

[Carriefaith]

I'm not sure if seasonal allergies are related to celiac or not. However, my last allergy test results (before going gluten free) indicated that I was allergic to every pollen that they tested! That's crazy! It will be interesting to see if my allergies are less annoying now that I have been gluten free for awhile.

[ianm]

I used to get seasonal allergies really bad but over the past year they have gone away. Allegra works really well and I never had any side effects from it. Tree pollen would rip my throat up and I could barely talk during the month of May. So far so good.

[cdford]

A lot of us have different allergies. Sometimes your immune system goes a little haywire and they will kick in. Think back...have you had any major stress recently or been ill with something else or got accidentally glutened? Any of those would trigger the immune system to overreact more than normal.

[Emme999]

Think back...have you had any major stress recently ...?

LOL

Ha ha ha ha HA ha ha ha ha ha Oh! I can't breathe..!

I can't think of a time (recently) when I *haven't* had major stress. Dad's bi-polar (and we had to take him to the hospital this week because he has pneumonia), boyfriend is paralyzed (well, he was when I met him too so it shouldn't upset me - but it *does*!), finished finals yesterday, finding out about Celiac... I wonder sometimes if it will ever end

I guess I need to take some meditation classes, huh? Geez

A friend of mine had a psychic at her baby shower that I went to last week. She read my palm and said, "Well, first of all - you have *WAY* too much stress!"

How did she know???

Thanks to everyone here who helps me to calm down on a regular basis

You guys rock!!

- Michelle

p.s. What I meant to say was "Good point!"

[cdford]

Unfortunately, we all seem to have lots of stress. Just this disease is enough without other family members being ill, jobs pressing us for more and more, our hectic schedules, financial woes, school, etc.

I did the same thing you just did, laugh out loud, when my physician asked me the same question a while back. I was sooo sick, my daughter was sooo sick, I was facing no longer being able to work and still having the medical bills pile up. You get the picture.