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Take the poll: What are YOUR sensitivies?

What are YOUR ME/CFS and co-morbidity sensitivities?

  • starches (corn, tapioca, rice...)

    Votes: 10 20.4%
  • grains (rice, rye,wheat, barley...)

    Votes: 19 38.8%
  • processed sugars (white sugar, corn syrup, maltodextrin...)

    Votes: 21 42.9%
  • meat proteins (chicken, beef, pork...)

    Votes: 2 4.1%
  • fish or shellfish proteins

    Votes: 2 4.1%
  • eggs

    Votes: 4 8.2%
  • veggies

    Votes: 3 6.1%
  • fruits

    Votes: 6 12.2%
  • fragrances

    Votes: 21 42.9%
  • smoke

    Votes: 15 30.6%
  • mold & mildew

    Votes: 15 30.6%
  • dust & dustmites

    Votes: 14 28.6%
  • other environmental (light, sound, cedar chips, cat litter...)

    Votes: 24 49.0%
  • temperature extremes (hot or cold weather)

    Votes: 32 65.3%
  • any others?

    Votes: 11 22.4%
  • I don't have any triggers.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't think I have any triggers, but then again, I might.

    Votes: 3 6.1%
  • I think I probably have triggers, but I haven't pin-pointed them yet.

    Votes: 5 10.2%

  • Total voters
    49

Booble

Senior Member
Messages
1,390
My parents were sending me back to school with my 104 degree fever...after being home for a month wiht MONO 2.

Noooooo!
My mum would have been fast friends with yours.
Though she did have a rule that fever was the one ticket out of school.
And then she'd tell us stories about how when she was little she would put the thermometer next to a hot light to get out of school.
 

Woof!

Senior Member
Messages
523
Hi all,

I'm bringing this poll back to the 'front page' one more time in the hope that some new people will chime in...

Woof! Dr.Lynne
 

vision blue

Senior Member
Messages
1,877
I had something that I took while growing up that we called "Green Medicine." It was a liquid antihistamine. I loved my green medicine. Turns out they banned it later because it had some kind of cocaine in it. :rofl:;)

Could it have been paragoric or donnotal by any chsnce??
 

Strawberry

Senior Member
Messages
2,107
Location
Seattle, WA USA
Good grief I got sent to school with mono too. And I had to walk home half asleep, and carrying 10 lbs of books. We didn’t have backpacks back then.