❓What do YOU Think?

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Do you think allergies are worse post-op?

I posted on Facebook that I’ve learned the hard way that I had an allergic reaction to blackberries. I’ve known about my strawberry allergy for decades and have avoided them mostly successfully. Apparently, they’re both in the same class of allergens 🙁

These blackberries were in an ice cream. And it was a good ice cream. Drat!

I have a lot more steroids to take for a few days. Oh, joy! And, another wean at the end.

Someone responded: “The further we get from Cushings, the more allergies surface. So glad you got help. Scary stuff!

I said: “I guess it’s because we don’t have so much cortisone already running in our bodies.”
Someone else asked: “Is that true? I seem to be allergic to pollen amd mold now?“
And I responded: “I don’t know but it makes sense now that I think of it. I’m definitely allergic to more things than I was Before Cushing’s“

So, in my informal poll – what do you think?  Are your allergies worse or are you having new ones after Cushing’s?

13 thoughts on “❓What do YOU Think?”

  1. Yes absolutely. Post surgery 7 years and I have low tolerance for food and real allergies to things and food.

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  2. 2 Comments from Facebook:

    1) Plagued with horrid allergies before surgery. Having my Cushing’s tumor removed from my lung ended that and every other paraneoplastic disease it was causing.

    2) Having unknown allergies postop.

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  3. Another Facebook Comment:

    I get rashes and hives before I start going through cortisol withdrawl and have to start my emergency doses

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