Did you take any allegra or zyrtec as soon as you felt the symptoms? Catching the symptoms quickly with histamine blockers will make you feel so much better!

I can now eat a ton more things than I could before I began my meds. I still can't eat the more majorly upsetting foods, but I can eat the ones that only mildly bothered me before meds. Everyone is different and we all react differently. With Idiopathic Anaphylaxis, which I recall you might have, you can react to a food today and not tomorrow (technically). I tend to find, though, that the carrot that bothered me before will still bother me now. The coffee, which only slightly made my stomach hurt, is now find to get due to my meds. On a bad day, though, I can drink it and my GI system will go crazy.

I'm not sure I understand.  I took some dye free liquid benadryl when the reaction started, but you take and extra zyrtec or allegra?  Interesting...  No, I haven't tried that.  I recently added the allegra and a second dose of zyrtec, but I had not considered adding a third dose of one of these in the event of a reaction.  I can try it. Thanks.

And thanks Joan.

Melons are a bad trigger for me.   But I also get symptoms of Fructose Intolerance, I believe.   A forum discusses that:

http://hfiinfo.proboards.com/index.cgi

Many of the symptoms of fructose... um... metabolic problems (there are several conditions, I believe) sound similar to mast cell problems.

I don't know what to make of it all.   I just know that if I have too much fructose I feel real bad, and have symptoms similar to the ones described by intolerance.   I believe I have a mild form of fructose intolerance.

Just FYI.
Todd in Tenn.