Day 22

This morning, we had a quick breakfast and headed to clinic for the start of Week 4!!!! I can’t believe we’re at this point already. Time has certainly flown and we’ve settled well into our little Peachtree life 🍑 We will most definitely miss this place!

When we arrived at clinic, they said they’d start with my hazelnut challenge. If you haven’t read the previous blogs, I’ll give you a quick update. So, my hazelnut component results (bloods) showed that I was allergic to the cross reactive PR 10 protein which is another word for pollen allergy syndrome. Dr A wanted to challenge this on Day 2 and I got quite far but then had a reaction to the 750mg dose: significant tingling and itchiness. This meant that Dr A stopped the challenge and I failed. 😪

A week later, they started me on SLIT drops which are taken under the tongue and contain the environmental allergens including cats, dogs, pollen etc. I also take a multivitamin and a digestive enzyme to support these in being absorbed into my system. Today, Dr A wanted to challenge hazelnut again to see whether the SLIT had started to work.

Amanda knows me well by now and knew that I wouldn’t want to start at the dose I previously reacted at so she started at 100mg so I could build my confidence.

I am pleased to say that I passed the hazelnut challenge and had zero symptoms showing that the SLIT has already started doing its job! I couldn’t believe the result considering I’ve only been taking the SLIT for 2 weeks!! Yay 😆

I then waited for 30-40 minutes and then dosed my peanut. Today, they put me back onto 1200mg as one single dose. Thankfully this went well with minor tingling and some heartburn/’frog in the throat’ feeling. Annoyingly, my most recent blood work still hasn’t come back (done on Friday) but it has been the weekend and today is actually President’s Day so could explain the hold up.

Weirdly, this throat feeling stopped after I had my lunch. It seems to be that my stomach doesn’t like to get hungry / empty and I did have lunch late today so maybe explains why it lingered. After my sandwich, it disappeared completely which was nice as it isn’t a painful symptom but more annoying. I’m finding that this process is about finding out more about how your body works and what is good for it and what isn’t. I know that high fat foods, fizzy drinks and dosing at night is not liked by my body!

We then went to Lake Kedron after clinic. The ducks were so tame and tried to bite my shoe! This evening was spent doing washing so we haven’t got lots to bring home – boring, I know!