If you want to save money on the barrier, buy the cheap vinyl one and
put an inexpensive mattress pad over that and launder the pad in hot
water with your sheets each week.  You must get one for your pillow;
splurge for the comfortable microfiber for that.

Susan

Try to get the numeric value of TSH so that people here can comment on it.
Different labs use different standards.  The recommended range has been
continously revised and nto all albs have kept up with it.

On the other hand, just because you (and I) may have borderline low thyroid
does not necessarily mean that we shold treat it.    It is a difficult
issue.....

Also, if you are one a low calorie diet, that may effect it (and your immune
response!).

On 1/17/06 8:32 AM, in article
m_8zf.1056$rH5.107@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net, "Steven L."
<sdlitvin@earthlinkNOSPAM.net> wrote:

Steve, have you tried Singular? That seems to help for stubborn allergy
situations. Practically no side effects.

Murray Grossan, M.D.
Www.EarAid.net

Yeah and no, at different times in my life.  Many years ago, when I
reacted severely to many things, I was RAST tested.  The test didn't
turn up a single one of my inhalant allergies, but showed I was allergic
to foods in the order of severity I had predicted to the docs pre-test.
This was during a time that I was becoming incredibly immune compromised
due to undiagnosed, longstanding tick borne diseases.  My pregnancy
knocked down my hypervigilant immune system and corrected a lot of my
symptoms, BTW, for years.

On skin testing, I was positive for allergies I was pretty aware of;
ragweed, trees, greas, house dust and mites, molds, and slightly or not
at all to cats (I always have two, and used to be much more allergic to
them, now I'm barely sensitive at all).

I (and many folks I know of) find that all allergic symptoms are
relieved by quieting the immune system with desensitization to the worst
and most omnipresent antigens and few most severe allergies.  Most
allergists do this so slowly that patients conclude the shots don't
work.  I travel over an hour to see a doc who desensitizes me in 12
weeks, then shots ever two weeks to a month.  Tremendous improvement in
my quality of life, but I still can be reactive to high dust or mold levels.

I know folks who are anergic, don't react on skin testing, but who get
diagnosed by environmental medicine docs and desensitized using drops
under the tongue.

Skin and/or RAST testing can miss your allergies depending on your own
response to the challenge.

Steven, if the usual skin tests don't work, I'd push for RAST testing of
your blood.  If that doesn't work, I'd look into environmental medicine.
 It has a bit of "alternative" taint, but I know of enough folks for
whom it's been the only way to diagnose and treat very severe allergies.

Susan

Have you tried Astelin? Grated, it is topical, but it is approved for
non-allergic rhinitis.

Boron