Allergies that show up later in life (move, years, drugs)

[seeriously]

I never had any allergies but in the last 10 years I've become allergic to sulphur drugs and z-pak, quinoa and more things if I think hard about it. Funny how this happens. So long as it's not chocolate, I'm good. You? Any new allergies?

[Giesela]

I've not been allergic to much throughout life and that hasn't changed I don't think. I never took much medication but don't remember being overly sensitive to anything. However now I've tried several drugs over the past few years for various things and find I have a lot of unhappy side effects to most. Not sure those would be considered allergies though.

Have you moved in the last 10 years? In 2004 I moved to Omaha from Michigan. I was developing an allergy to something by the time I left in 2007. It took a year or so but it gradually diminished on its own here in southern Ohio. Not sure what it was. Lots of people there seemed to have allergy problems and I've been fine here even though someone told me that its a place with a bad allergy reputation.

Quinoa? geez

[seeriously]

Yes, I moved in 2011 from FL to MA, all in all being gone from MA for about 14 years. The first year back I had an awful spring. Slowly rebuilding my immunities back up to all things native to Massachusetts.

[oddstray]

Bad reactions aren't always allergies.

But I have read that one's allergies run on a seven-ish year schedule. That is to say, you could lose or acquire a new allergy in about seven years.

[Normashirley]

My allergies to poison ivy pretty much disappeared.

I now live in the Tennessee Valley, that one vet refers to as "Allergy Purgatory"

I now take Benedryl all summer because I am outside all the time. I hate when my nose runs, unexpectedly.

My sneezes are far from delicate; I just about turn myself inside out

Even one of my horses seemed to develop environmental allergies after we moved here. He sure didn't have them before but he has them now. I either keep him on an herbal compound for horses or magnesium maleate. They both work for him.

[RiverBird]

Originally Posted by seeriously

Yes, I moved in 2011 from FL to MA, all in all being gone from MA for about 14 years. The first year back I had an awful spring. Slowly rebuilding my immunities back up to all things native to Massachusetts.

Mass. gets all the bad air from the west of us. I am in the Valley and my county got a very low grade in air quality. I never in my life had a known allergy till we moved back here after living 7 years away (in the Midwest, where I had none), in my 50s. I am now really allergic to anything with wheat, almonds, casein in dairy, and some other foods, and whatever is going on with the environmental air. Part of the reason I'd want to move away is for better air. My allergies manifest as respiratory.

[cb2008]

I just got tested and my allergens are same - dust and pollen. But the intensity and length has become longer and symptoms more severe. Main reason for seeing an allergist.

[jazzcat22]

Originally Posted by seeriously

I never had any allergies but in the last 10 years I've become allergic to sulphur drugs and z-pak, quinoa and more things if I think hard about it. Funny how this happens. So long as it's not chocolate, I'm good. You? Any new allergies?

How in the world did you discover you were allergic to quinoa?

[texan2yankee]

I had bad sinus allergies, probably cedar and ragweed, every fall and spring when I lived in Texas growing up. When I moved to Manhattan I was blissfully free of allergies for decades! I had forgotten I even had allergies until I move back to Texas to retire and bam! Those allergies I had decades ago are back. I love being home again, so I guess the allergies are the price I pay to live here.

[Gerania]

I know a few people who developed an allergy to sulfa drugs. Penicillin allergy isn't rare, either.

I have some food intolerances now that I didn't just five years ago. No allergies yet, thankfully.