Gerri
02-01-2008, 03:31 AM
In my intro someone I believe called Rikki answered me. My internet went down and most likely will again. I didn’t get to see all repliess before the internet here went down. When I get home I will be better answer everyone’s questions.
I want to thank everyone for their replys. Here goes I hope I get this posted.
Not sure if you go by Rikki. "I'm highly allergic to sulfas/sulfites as well. In fact I've had this breathing problem for a year that I've been tested for over and over and have no diagnosis. Then a doctor looked at my list of meds and saw that I was taking atenolol. Apparently atenolol has a slight bit of sulfite in it, but not enough to be reported anywhere, since most people with sulfa allergies just get a rash... I guess they figure that you can take a little of the allergen and be fine. Well, if the atenolol is the cause of my breathing problems, then it destroyed the ability of my lungs to exchange CO, O2, and CO2. Yay for me. Not."
I am taking an asthma inhaler, with sulfites, only as a last resort. I also take chloritripolon twice a day to help with the sulfites I can't avoid. My doctor doesn't want to add anymore because it's causing further damage. I have lung damage. I have mild COPD. I have severe sleep apnea, which is another breathing disorder. I have severe GERDs, that also affect my breathing. I have bronchial asthma, and get bronchitis often if I don't watch what I eat, or take in that has sulfa, sulfites, sulfates, and/or any sulfer derivatives. I don't eat egg yokes, cannot have flu shots, don't have garlic, onions, cabbage (all have natural sulfa). I am lactose intolerant, I don't have milk products with lactose in it, because then I have to take my asthma inhaler, which I try to avoid as much as possible.
I avoid anyone with a colds because I don't want to have to take my asthma inhaler. I also don't eat bread from the stores as most of them have sulfites in the. I use natural products, watch all labels, and don't trust doctors to check medications, as a doctor already caused me to have severe asthma attach because she use a computer to see if medication had sulfites and sulfates in and advised me there wasn't any in it. I went to pharmaceutical company, because my asthma was getting worse to find out the medicine had sulfites in it, but didn't have sulfates. The sulfites was not in the medication it's self but in the outside coating.
"Anyhow, the modern insulins do not contain sulfas/sulfites. You should be fine on them." This makes me happy to hear, you made my day.
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Gerri
I want to thank everyone for their replys. Here goes I hope I get this posted.
Not sure if you go by Rikki. "I'm highly allergic to sulfas/sulfites as well. In fact I've had this breathing problem for a year that I've been tested for over and over and have no diagnosis. Then a doctor looked at my list of meds and saw that I was taking atenolol. Apparently atenolol has a slight bit of sulfite in it, but not enough to be reported anywhere, since most people with sulfa allergies just get a rash... I guess they figure that you can take a little of the allergen and be fine. Well, if the atenolol is the cause of my breathing problems, then it destroyed the ability of my lungs to exchange CO, O2, and CO2. Yay for me. Not."
I am taking an asthma inhaler, with sulfites, only as a last resort. I also take chloritripolon twice a day to help with the sulfites I can't avoid. My doctor doesn't want to add anymore because it's causing further damage. I have lung damage. I have mild COPD. I have severe sleep apnea, which is another breathing disorder. I have severe GERDs, that also affect my breathing. I have bronchial asthma, and get bronchitis often if I don't watch what I eat, or take in that has sulfa, sulfites, sulfates, and/or any sulfer derivatives. I don't eat egg yokes, cannot have flu shots, don't have garlic, onions, cabbage (all have natural sulfa). I am lactose intolerant, I don't have milk products with lactose in it, because then I have to take my asthma inhaler, which I try to avoid as much as possible.
I avoid anyone with a colds because I don't want to have to take my asthma inhaler. I also don't eat bread from the stores as most of them have sulfites in the. I use natural products, watch all labels, and don't trust doctors to check medications, as a doctor already caused me to have severe asthma attach because she use a computer to see if medication had sulfites and sulfates in and advised me there wasn't any in it. I went to pharmaceutical company, because my asthma was getting worse to find out the medicine had sulfites in it, but didn't have sulfates. The sulfites was not in the medication it's self but in the outside coating.
"Anyhow, the modern insulins do not contain sulfas/sulfites. You should be fine on them." This makes me happy to hear, you made my day.
Hugs
Gerri