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Metmom, I am sorry that you are having this problem. I will pray that your doctors will be able to make the correct diagnosis and that will find relief.

This probably isn't to helpful, but about 15 years ago I was suffering terribly from allergies it manifestied itself in a hive-like condition called “idiopathic dermographism”. I was very incapacitated by it. The doctors and I thought it was food related. Allergy skin tests also showed that I was highly allergic to nearly all the vegetation, mold, and fungus in Maryland.

Well...One day the air conditioner in our house broke. When the repairman open up the AC we found a think layer of mold that was at minimum an inch thick covering all the working parts and the air ducts. ( Maryland is very humid.) We had everything in the AC system thoroughly cleaned out and bought several hepa-filters for the house. I **immediately** began to improve.

However...When we moved to a dry state, all allergies disappeared including all food allergies. I am noticing though, that after 10 years of living here, I am getting some nasal reactions to pollen in the spring. I suppose I am becoming allergic to the local flora.

My God bless you during this very very hard time in your life, and I pray that you will soon feel much better.

Thankfully, I don’t have any mold allergies any more.

I did the shots thing for about 8 years and that took care of them. That’s been confirmed with shin prick testing and RAST testing.

I know that it can be an issue, however, and manifest are other problems.

I also found a doctor who is a little off mainstream, and was skin tested for yeast/Candida allergies and that came back as negative as well in spite of the fact that it seems to be a mitigating factor.

I’m glad you’re better though.

At the height of the mold scare in the Houston area in about 2001 we let our bay house go for a song. We discovered that the a/c units had been leaking water into the walls for who knows how long and inside the walls and a/c ducts were full of black mold. I would wake up after spending one night there with the worst headache I had ever experienced and it would take 48 hours to subside no matter what I took for it.

The repairs to our house were extensive and we decided to let someone else go to that trouble and expense. I still miss that house but hope to never experience pain like that again.