Happy New Year to you too Robyn - and welcome to the "After Three Years" club! A very select and small bunch of folk indeed!!
Unfortunately the medical advice now is that anyone that has had severe reactions to the venom during the build up program requires a more extensive protocol than the standard three years. Five years seem favoured by most allergists.
Adverse reactions to the treatment as we all know are really quite rare so for those new folk on the forum please do not worry as the great majority go through immunotherapy with no problems at all.
There are also some allergists who suggest that if there has been particularly severe responses during the build up programme (eg loss of consciousness/heart failure) then the maintenance should be for life! That is really quite a thought!!
In any event I am on my 47th maintenance shot (I have mine four weekly) and hoping that come shot 65 in June of 2008 I will be off the hook. I am still not quite sure what my allergist has in mind.
How is everyone else doing with their shots at the moment?
David
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:39 PM
Subject: [insectstings] Maintenace shot #36..........:)
Hey Ya'll
Happy New Year!
and what a way to start it off! I recieved my #36 set of maintenace
shots tuesday, ( I get to go twice this month )
So I'm all happy and full of hope.......but alas. My doctor said I
would be getting the whole five years worth of maintenace.
Oh well...... I didn't really think, with the still painful and
reactive injections, that I would be able to stop at the three year
mark anyway.
With 'just a couple' of 'really' cold days here and there, we are
having a warm and wet winter. On the warm and sunny days, the honey
bees and paper wasps are flying around in their lazy daisy way, even
a few bumble bees....the fire ants bring up their queens, to enjoy
the sunshine and their mounds are very visible...some are quite huge!
Alot of my springtime songbirds have arrived.... Robin's greeting me
with their 'cheer'ing song and tons of gold finches fussing over
the sunflower seeds, within another month the purple martins will be
here!
Hope Ya'll have great Joy this Year, 2007
and no unfriendly buzzing woes
:)
Robin,
down in Louisiana,
where the fire ant mounds grow.
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