Possible Allergies?

[barefootguy]

I get ridiculously sick every time the pest control folks come out and spray. I wake up the morning after they?ve sprayed feeling miserable and it lasts for about a week and a half. The symptoms are usually similar to a bad cold or bad allergies. In the spring we had to have a double dose due to and infestation of fire ants in the house and I got really sick. My muscles and joints ached so much that I couldn't get out of bed for a couple days. It took a while to put the two together, but I think I must be allergic to their chemicals.
Have any of you heard of or experienced such a thing?

 

[audie]

i don't have it quite that bad, but every time chemlawn hits the neighborhood here, i sneeze, gag, and cough....

 

[Lady D]

I get ridiculously sick every time the pest control folks come out and spray. I wake up the morning after they?ve sprayed feeling miserable and it lasts for about a week and a half. The symptoms are usually similar to a bad cold or bad allergies. In the spring we had to have a double dose due to and infestation of fire ants in the house and I got really sick. My muscles and joints ached so much that I couldn't get out of bed for a couple days. It took a while to put the two together, but I think I must be allergic to their chemicals.
Have any of you heard of or experienced such a thing?

Pest control doesn't treat our house here, so no I haven't experienced that. I have had the worse sinus problems for the past week, the pressure headache in the forehead and in the back of my head for a week solid until today. Severely stuffy, ears and teeth aching, burning irritation throughout my sinuses. Not to mention the muscle and joint aches you are experiencing. And I am sure it is the pollen and other blooming things outdoors right now. Might be some stuff inside the office where I work also. It's miserable. But this is the first day I have actually felt half decent in a week. Hope things get better.

 

[lindatat]

My allergist calls that kind of reaction "chemical sensitivity" rather than an allergy. I get them from certain perfumes, chemicals, air fresheners, etc. Had a really bad one on my way home from Sowal a few weeks ago. I was in the bathroom at the Memphis airport and the little wall air freshener sprayed while I was washing my hands. The symptoms are much like those of an allergy attack - but an allergy can only be called as such is causes by an actual allergen - see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergen

 

[audie]

My allergist calls that kind of reaction "chemical sensitivity" rather than an allergy. I get them from certain perfumes, chemicals, air fresheners, etc. Had a really bad one on my way home from Sowal a few weeks ago. I was in the bathroom at the Memphis airport and the little wall air freshener sprayed while I was washing my hands. The symptoms are much like those of an allergy attack - but an allergy can only be called as such is causes by an actual allergen - see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergen

you so smart baby ;-)

 

[lindatat]

you so smart baby ;-)

Ya think? LOL. Can you believe I have another darn cold? Or maybe it's just the allergy attack to end all allergy attacks.

 

[audie]

Ya think? LOL. Can you believe I have another darn cold? Or maybe it's just the allergy attack to end all allergy attacks.

are you hanging out with my sis ? they all have colds too ! and pink eye to go with it.

 

[lindatat]

are you hanging out with my sis ? they all have colds too ! and pink eye to go with it.

No pink eye here thank goodness - but colds all around for me & the kids.

 

[audie]

No pink eye here thank goodness - but colds all around for me & the kids.

my dad called and said he's constipated from his pain pills..... i told him to take 2 dulcolax and call me in the morning.....if he can stay off his throne :funn:

 

[lindatat]

my dad called and said he's constipated from his pain pills..... i told him to take 2 dulcolax and call me in the morning.....if he can stay off his throne :funn:

Hmmm - that advice sounds familiar......