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    Gastric Sleeve Member Luann's Avatar
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    Default Skin rashes, now on restricted diet to pin down food allergy

    I've been breaking out in rashes, hives, and my eczema is the worst it's ever been in my whole life. Since last summer!

    Had 2 terribly stressful events occur in tandem, and it's like it was too much for me. I worked my whole career in nursing having to wash my hands every few minutes or gel them with alcohol rubs - I know how to take care of my eczema. Nothing I'm doing now helps & as I'm no longer working, it should be a piece of cake to keep my hands good. Not! Been to a dermatologist multiple times, an infectious disease doc & then an allergy specialist.

    Which takes me to my exclusion diet. My skin is so bad I can't have skin testing, so he did a whole slew of bloodwork & from there I need to pin down what is a real food allergy. Apparently the blood testing can give both false positives & negatives. I need a non-smiling roll eyes for that one. I have switched to dye & fragrance free laundry soap, bar soap, and carry cetaphil skin cleanser in my purse so when I need to wash my hands I don't have to use the harsh soap in the dispensers.

    For a solid month, no wheat, eggs, peanut, tomato, potato, or greens. Like no salad, no kale! Also at the beginning he put all grains on the list too. After 4 days I called to ask him just what I was supposed to eat. Seriously, I can't even put chicken on a salad. He then said ok, if you absolutely have to, it's ok to have a little corn, white rice or oats. I didn't test allergic to these things so I guess he just threw them in for good measure.

    Then, after a month, I can slowly start to add things back one by one and see if anything triggers a reaction. That is if the rashes ever clear. So far I am still breaking out in rashes. I think I'm allergic to beef, and I know I'm allergic to one type of fish. Just praying it is a food and not the titanium hardware in my spine & staples from sleeve. I am breaking out in hives over my tailbone & even have a raw spot over a piece of hardware. Praying it isn't that, because if it is, what can I do? My fusion never healed solid, so they can't exactly pull the hardware. Surgeons tell you no one gets allergic to to titanium, but according to Melissa foundation 4% of the people they test are found to have a true allergy.

    Anyway, please forgive my long rant. If nothing else, this diet is helping me drop the weight I gained with the prednisone & stress eating. At first I lost a pound a day, even with the loosening of the restrictions I'm still dropping a pound or two a week.

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    Gastric Sleeve Member Mbenson5's Avatar
    I have had a gastric sleeve.
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    Default Re: Skin rashes, now on restricted diet to pin down food allergy

    I am so glad you posted this!!! Since my skin removal surgery in June, I break out in hives if I don't take Allegra every day. That is on the advice of my allergist who has no idea what is causing this. I have seen 3 Drs so far and no one can say. I go back in March and he wants me to start weaning off but every time I do I get breakthrough hives. Everything' else makes me sleepy and nonfunctional. It is just miserable, so I totally feel your pain. I hope you find some resolution. I am also going to a restricted diet, I find that wheat makes my stomach hurt and blows me up with gas. Don't know if it helps at all with the hives. Just bought fragrance free detergent for the first time. Please keep us posted, because maybe someone will hit on something that works.
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    Gastric Sleeve Member Aydensmomma's Avatar
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    Default Re: Skin rashes, now on restricted diet to pin down food allergy

    Oh no!! That's terrible! I know people who were good with all food one day and the next they weren't.....was gluten....but it wasn't rashes, they just felt sick.
    Couldn't they test for titanium poisoning?
    Whatever it is I hope you figure it out sooner rather then later. You must be so uncomfortable!
    sleeved 12/30/14 @255lbs Goal 140lbs
    3/3/15- 208lbs 6/14/15- 163lbs
    lost 92lbs in 1st 6mo
    9/10/15- 139 1/5/2016 - 128lbs
    lost 128lbs in 1 year
    4/4/16 - 123lbs 7/4/16 - 129lbs 12/3/16- 130
    still 128lb loss@2 year mark-11lbs below goal
    gained 13lbs by 3 year mark weighing 142lbs
    Gained up to 158 by 3 years 3 months!
    3.5 years back to 142
    hoping to stay between 140lbs-145lbs
    4 years hanging in between 145 and 150
    5 year mark! ugh! Up to 160! Time to get back track!

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    Gastric Sleeve Member Luann's Avatar
    I have had a gastric sleeve.
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    Dr. Alejandro Lopez
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    Default Re: Skin rashes, now on restricted diet to pin down food allergy

    I am going to ask for titanium testing. The allergist just cut me off and said let's not go down that road, or some such. But he is fine with saying I should think about getting rid of my dogs. Not happening, just not. Going to ask my primary care doc, and if all else fails I can go forward with this titanium study & they will have my blood drawn for testing.
    Thanks for the kind responses, Teri and Melissa. The stress I went though last summer was phenomenal, and it must have flipped a switch on my otherwise manageable eczema. I'm breaking out in rashes so often. Taking 6 different antihistamines or histamine / mast cell blockers currently, and even when I was on the prednisone I still would rash out through that. I just want my life back. It's really getting depressing. My skin is so thin from the steroid ointments that a hand or finger will split open from struggling with a jar or latch on a container. Never think about how much we use our hands until it hurts to do everything.

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