"Dee.Dee" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> "cybercat" > wrote in message
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>>> "Julie Bove" > wrote
>>>> I developed a thyroid problem when I was pregnant.
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>>> When were you diagnosed with an egg allergy?
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>> I can't remember exactly. Something like 2-3 years ago.
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> I've only known one person who had an egg allergy. It caused itchy sores
> and pimples on his shoulders.
> It made him miserable.
>
> Sometimes I don't think one has to be diagnosed, one can put two and two
> together.
>
> However, it took DH and I some 10 years to realize that both of us -- get
> it! both of us -- were getting headaches and feelings that we had eaten
> something poisonous, shaking legs, upset stomach, difficulty breathing,
> inability to concentrate from garlic.
> I still find it hard to believe because it wasn't like we ate all garlic
> from Gilroy, or from China or other parts. It was any garlic.

In my case, I throw up very violently if I eat an egg. This didn't used to
happen before. Before, I just had chronic diarrhea and didn't know the
case.

When my daughter was diagnosed with an egg allergy (among other things), I
pretty much stopped eating eggs. Then one day I got some salad from the
salad bar at the local grocery, including some egg salad. I ate it and got
very sick. Assumed it was food poisoning.

Then about a month went by. Had a dozen eggs in the fridge about to go bad.
So I made egg salad and ate it. Again, had the same violent reaction.

So when the Dr. tested me and said I had one severe allergy and could I
guess what it was, it wasn't hard for me to give an answer.