I’ve developed a serious mould allergy at work

FBaby

You don’t know what I feel like and I would not assume to make judgements about anyone’s health.

As it is, I know exactly what it feels like as I have an allergy that requires me to take daily antihistamines (even when I was pregnant) and so for almost 20 years as well as steroid drops. It controls the symptoms.

If your specialist had told you that your allergy was definitely due to mould, he wouldn't have bothered to send you for a skin test.

Wait for the test and wait for the steroids to start being effective, it can take quite a few weeks before it does. Then if the results show a reaction to mould and you are still miserable in a few weeks on daily steroids drops, then take it with your company.

By the way, your allergy is not serious unless your consultant as also prescribed an epinephrine pen, which I would doubt for a suspected allergy to mould.

sangie595

FBaby wrote: »

As it is, I know exactly what it feels like as I have an allergy that requires me to take daily antihistamines (even when I was pregnant) and so for almost 20 years as well as steroid drops. It controls the symptoms.

If your specialist had told you that your allergy was definitely due to mould, he wouldn't have bothered to send you for a skin test.

Wait for the test and wait for the steroids to start being effective, it can take quite a few weeks before it does. Then if the results show a reaction to mould and you are still miserable in a few weeks on daily steroids drops, then take it with your company.

By the way, your allergy is not serious unless your consultant as also prescribed an epinephrine pen, which I would doubt for a suspected allergy to mould.

Quite. Allergies are actually very easy to control in most cases. And when my hay fever developed this year, I am with you- I know what it feels like because it was bad! Really bad! From nothing to blinding headaches whenever I stepped out of the house ( which was closed up in the best of weather!). The garden was out of bounds. My eyes developed a sort of cataract cover to them as a response to the irritation- something my GP had read about but never seen. Think of it as walking around with a veil over your head! Luckily I have a great GP. Didn't need a specialist. I had three steroid injections. Gone. Totally. Maybe it will be back next summer, maybe not. But the injections did their job. I know that every person reacts differently to them. For some they work "forever", others they don't work at all. But the OP has several carts before the horse...

w06

sangie, cromoglycate eye drops (opticrom etc available over the counter) very safe and pretty good at damping the eye reaction down, best to start next year a month or so before problems started this year to preempt the reaction

sangie595

w06 wrote: »

sangie, cromoglycate eye drops (opticrom etc available over the counter) very safe and pretty good at damping the eye reaction down, best to start next year a month or so before problems started this year to preempt the reaction

Thanks, yes I have such plans in place. But the GP did say that I should be careful not to over-medicate as a protection because it may not come back. I have a lot of medications due to disability and it could even be something in that mix that triggered it. They change as we have high hopes that surgery will reduce the need for the meds. I am also not a well behaved on hydrating drops as I should be - apparently I don't blink as much as most people (which is why contacts have never worked out) and that also could be a contributing factor. I'm just thinking I was lucky it wasn't a great summer! Perversely, I had no problems abroad so it is something here that triggers it.

w06

it's been a weird summer for pollen, one of my mates is usually quite severely affected, hibernating for a few weeks each summer it's been so bad, but this year just had mild symptoms except for a couple of bad evenings.

Being good with hydration drops helps maintain the protective layer too as you say