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Ok, so after going to the Doctors complaining of Knee pain and swelling since I was 13, having scans, xrays and experts threatening painful surgery with no promise of a cure, I "think" I have found the answer.

I beleive that drinking milk is what is causing my problem.

Now I have always drunk milk, 1/2 a pint when I went to bed when I was younger, every night pretty much. As well as drinking it through the day.

Since I have been older, at work I would buy a 2 pint bottle and have that with my lunch. I don't drink tea or coffee really, so I would drink milk or Coke. Seeing as Coke has more sugar in it than pretty much anything in the known universe, I tried to drink milk as a healthy option.

And don't anyone start about drinking full fat milk- it's 96% fat free!.

Normally the cold weather makes my knees bad, but in Disneyland Paris, where the temperature never really got above 2 degrees and was well below freezing first thing in the morning, and being stuck on a plane and a train and lugging heavy luggage which are things that make them worse, my knees didn't bother me at all.

Tried to work out why, and at some point since being back drank some milk (I'd missed it!) and then the next day my knees really hurt.

Anyway, after a bit of thinking and a bit of googling, turns out that a milk allergy can cause joint pain, amongst other things.

So since then, no millk, and no real pain.

Now, if only I had known about this 18 years ago, it would have made my life so much easier!

Anyone else got any good allergies?
 
I used to drink milk everyday mainly due to the perceived benefits I always heard whilst growing up.

I often had stomach pains but generally put it down to an unhealthy diet - not that it was a bad diet, just not enough greens you could say. I am relatively fit and don't drink or smoke.

When I stopped drinking milk about 12mths ago all pains have gone. I decided to give milk a miss because I read somewhere that there is little benefits to the adult digestive system whereas with babies/toddlers the opposite is true.

Quite glad I did!
 
I'm allergic to a range of stuff, artificial colours (Caramel and Orange i.e. E150 and Tartrazine), both have psychological affects on me, e150 makes me bad tempered (very) and tartrazine makes me depressed. No cure or medicine that I know of counteracts the affect, so avoidance is the only real answer, trouble is they sneak those colours into a lot of foods (Coke being one, vinegar etc)

Food allergies are basically to dairy products and/or animal fats - cheese, chocolate, cream etc - brings on hay fever like symptoms. Nasal spray (beconase) or piriteze relieve the symptoms. Bit of a pain because that's a food group I really like, plain 70%+ chocolate is ok though, just no "milk" chocolate.

Could be worse could be a nut allergy.

Matt
 
Yup I've got the milk issue too! I am lactose intolerent and it actually causes exzema for me so I have to avoid anything dairy related at all costs!

Sucks cos I really like Mars Bars!! :'( I only realised about 7-8yrs ago that milk was the problem. My Mum is also lactose intolerent so we suffer together!!
 
We have alot of them in this house.

Daughter Dairy products mainly but we work round that.

me i haven't the time to list them. but mainly seafood, wasps, Tea, and i have Lupus which in lay mans terms as my doc has told me i am Allergic to myself..

as someone said could be worse..
 
I often wonder if I might have a dairy allergy.
My knees sound similar to yours often being too sore to cycle to work, I also have skin problems which I've read can be caused by an allergy to dairy products.

I don't drink milk like you do, but I do have cereal every day and a coffee every morning.

I did try giving dairy up for a while, but I didn't do it properly and can't remember if my symptoms improved a great deal. I might give it another go but I hate milk substitutes and I really love cheese.

I also get pretty debilitating hayfever if I don't dose myself up on antihistamines from spring to late autumn. Thankfully it's not as bad as it used to be and the drugs keep it in check.
 
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i am severely allergic to f***wits! Brings out all kinds of unpredictable reactions........
 
I've used the same shower gel for years but ran out so used a different one and for the last 2 days my arms have been covered in itchy spots, don't know if it's coincidence but i'm not using it again

My only other allergy is my wife but only when we're both in the same house or within shouting distance

It's an easy cure, I just go out
 
A couple of years back I was suffering badly with catarrh on my chest. It cleared up over the Christmas break but came back when I returned to work. I worked out that whilst I was off work I was having toast, bacon sarnies, cheese and ham toasties etc. for breakfast but once back at work I swapped back to my bowl of cereal with half a pint of full fat milk.

I switched to rice milk on my cereal and I suffer from a lot less congestion than I did.
 
Get lots of joint pains but put it down to wearing out!
Recently started eating Alpro(??) Soya yoghurt and surprised how good it is.
 
I think I'm allergic to alcohol .......... It gives me headaches and makes me go all wobbly!
 
I'm allergic to work, particularly the hard variety.....
 
I'm going to start on about drinking full fat milk :D ...

Two pints of 4% milk is way too much to be drinking a day and contains almost all of your daily saturated fat content alone (over for women). From what I understand milk aids growth in adolescence but should be consumed sparingly in adulthood. Drink a can of diet coke a day and stick to tea (with semi skimmed milk of course ;)) and water for the rest of the day.

I had lots of allergies when i was a kid and was tested for 26 different items, dust, dust mite, different pollen types etc and I was allergic to 24 of those ;) I'm not too bad now though but do get hayfever all summer though.
 
Mohain said:
I'm going to start on about drinking full fat milk :D ...

Two pints of 4% milk
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It's 96% fat free!!!

Anyways, not drinking it anymore:razz:
 
I can't drink milk either. It gives me a really bad stomach. But, I can eat yoghurt, cheese etc. I no longer drink tea or coffee as I can't bear the smell of it :(
 
Honestly, people who go on about how semi skimmed is so much healthier - because it has a whopping whole 2% less fat......

Give it another year or so and there'll be a U-turn on that too - like eggs, cheese, cholesterol and just about everything else the "experts" wanted banned years ago.
 
lawrie29 said:
It's 96% fat free!!!
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Yes, but if it's 2 pints/day, which is about 1,136ml. A litre of milk weighs between 1.027grams and 1.037grams, so if we take a mid point then 2 pints weighs in at about 1.133kg, and 40% of that is 45, so, you're actually eating about 45 grams of fat!! Full cream milk has about 75% saturated fat, so you're ingesting about 34 grams of saturated fat.

Recommended daily allowance of fat = 70grams
Recommended daily allowance of saturated fat = 24grams

You may be eating 41% more saturated fat than is recommended!

I like full cream milk too, but 2 pints is a little over the top! :)
 
lawrie29 said:
It's 96% fat free!!!

Anyways, not drinking it anymore:razz:
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Used to eat probably 20 doughnuts a week as well.........

ANd I'm 6"2 and weigh 13 stone.
 
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i am allergic to all forms of chocolate, raw egg, sheeps cheese (can't remember the italian name for it but had a mighty bad reaction when I ate it by accident, mum put the wrong cheese on the table lol) and something else that we haven't figured out what it is yet, I keep having quite severe reactions and having kept a food diary we are no closer to knowing what it is... I am wondering if it could be an oil, soya or something along the preservative lines but still not sure.
 
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Twizzel said:
i am allergic to all forms of chocolate, raw egg, sheeps cheese (can't remember the italian name for it but had a mighty bad reaction when I ate it by accident, mum put the wrong cheese on the table lol) and something else that we haven't figured out what it is yet, I keep having quite severe reactions and having kept a food diary we are no closer to knowing what it is... I am wondering if it could be an oil, soya or something along the preservative lines but still not sure.
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what sort of reactions are you getting to the un know???
 
Lips swell, hives around mouth, throat is itchy and often cannot stop coughing, short of breath, eyes become itchy and swollen... the same reaction I get if eat the foods I know I am allergic to.
 
emmm strange one.. i was thinking it might have been air bourn but seems not i have alot of problems with spays of any sort..

have you seen a doctor?
 
Yes... they can't do anything until I can pinpoint whatever it could be that is causing the reactions, then they can blood test/skin prick test to confirm. In the mean time I just keep a food diary (it is definitely food related) and have a stash of anti histamines, steroids and 2 epipens to carry round.
 
you sound like me with what you have to carry around with you and it is not fun either.. well i hope you can pin it down soon
 
Twizzel said:
Lips swell, hives around mouth, throat is itchy and often cannot stop coughing, short of breath, eyes become itchy and swollen... the same reaction I get if eat the foods I know I am allergic to.
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That is an allergy! Everying else is an intolerance and the only thing you can really be intolerant to is lactose. Its because you don't have an enzyme capable of breaking it down, after all drinking milk containing it is a relatively new thing in the evolutionary scheme of things.

By the ways, that is a biological fact. Any of this 'allergy' or 'intolerance' testing at health food shops etc is witchcraft and quackery! ;)
 
Twizzel said:
Yes... they can't do anything until I can pinpoint whatever it could be that is causing the reactions, then they can blood test/skin prick test to confirm. In the mean time I just keep a food diary (it is definitely food related) and have a stash of anti histamines, steroids and 2 epipens to carry round.
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Similar reaction as my daughter, she's wheat intolerant, might be worth looking into that as a possibility.
The skin test will only test if your skin is sensitive, not your respiratory system, sorry.

Matt
 
I used to drink loads of coke when I was school age and I always liked a good proper strong italian coffee, and drunk quite a lot of it, also chocolate used to be eaten a great deal by me, I started with breathing problems and decided to stop drinking the coffees and coke and stopped the chocolate, gave myself a month or so, tried chocolate, could hardly breathe properly, then a day or so later I tried coffee, same thing again. I found out that I am severely allergic to caffeine! So for the last 10 years or so, I have not been able to taste proper coffee or enjoy chocolate! Its amazing what you can find out by process of elimination.
 
Some years ago when I first developed a year-round hay fever type allergy, I was referred to an allergy specialist. He was Doctor Richard Mackarness. Now dead, he wrote a book or more on the subject, and even gave me a signed copy. The allergy speciality was a sideline to his real job as a psychiatrist at a mental institution - asylum as it was called back in the 70s.

He told me of an in-patient, a woman, who had been sectioned and locked away there after having inexplicably become violent and smashed up her home repeatedly. She had been there for a couple of years or more when he had the idea to test her for food allergies. He de-toxified her over a month or so, at the end of which she resumed her normal stable personality. He then started to feed her specific foods and noted the effects. He found that some things turned her violent again. These were perfectly normal and common foods, and amongst them the worst culprits were sausages and tomatoes. Once she knew what to avoid, she was discharged to resume a normal life.
 
Coriander . . . of all the weird things :shake:

Within a few hours of eating anything containing it . . . numbness of the tongue and lips; red blotchy rash on the neck and chest and nausea. Strangely it only seems to apply to raw coriander leaves - as long as it's cooked it doesn't seem to have any effect at all :shrug:
 
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I'm mega allergic to coffee - Mick Jagger lips and swollen throat kind of stuff. Just the smell of 'proper' coffee for too long makes me bigtime vomit - I've learnt to hold my breath and breathe through my mouth (which unfortunatley dries out the through and it starts to swell). It probably started when I was 'in womb' as my mum had coffee and I reacted so violently she was pretty ill. She then gave up coffee until I was born and breastfed . . . ever seen a baby with a swollen head?. The doctor suggested when I was 5 to re-introduce coffee into my diet, so mum made a coffee cake and I was really ill again, so the doctor suggested I was probably allegic to coffee. Never had any proper diagnosis, but I'm not going through the hassle of being tested and feeling like poo to tell me something I already know.

I'm also allergic to wool and end up with a big blotchy rash or if I wear it on my head - a headache . . .
 
The odd thing about allergies which many people don't realise is that you will never have a reaction the first time you are exposed to a product. It's always after. So, for example, if you have a peanut allergy, the very first time you have a peanut - no reaction. The body develops the allergy subsequently.
 
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