I found out I had a peanut allergy when I was 15 months old after eating the crust of a peanut butter sandwich. Within a few minutes I had broken out in hives. From that day on, I have had to watch what I eat and what others around me ate. Soon that will no longer be an issue. Join me on my adventure to eating peanuts through oral immunotherapy.
Traffic was bad today, but my dad and I made it to the appointment right on time. We went to a different location today because that was what was available. It being summer makes it eaisier to go in the middle of the week. I went up to 2 peanut M&Ms everyday. If I liked Reeses Pieces, then I could do 3 as an alternative to the peanut M&Ms. At the appointment, I spent my time reading my summer reading book and taking IQ tests. My goal was to determine if my IQ is higher than my dad's, which it is. (We both still fell into the same category so it wasn't a huge difference.)
I am glad to say no reactions have occurred and I am nearing my pit stop. Only a little more to go and I will be done with appointments for a while. I am also doing better with eating them at different times during the day. I'm experiencing less stomach aches when I choose to dose in the morning. I usually dose in the after dinner but that is just me.
Today I went back to the doctors for my next mission, the peanut M&M. For prep, I sent a message out to every group chat I was a part of asking "Can anyone give me insight on what it(peanut M&M) tastes like?" My research did not get me far because most of the replies were about how they prefer pretzel m&ms. Friends, that is helpful. Fortunately, I was about to find out for myself.
The chocolate definitely made it more bearable and to me the peanut tastes kinda like an almond. I don't think I will ever want to eat a whole bag of peanut M&Ms. I still have to give myself a mental pep talk before I eat it.
"McKenna, Yes you are are allergic to peanuts, yes that is a peanut, but no you will not die. You will be fine. That's it. Chew it. Chew it. Okay, see you'll be fine."
Also, look at the cute shirt my mom got me. #oitworks
TIme to head back for my up dose. See you next time.
Okay so long time no post... the good news is I'm not a bunch of posts behind. My big news is that I'm officially done with peanut flour as of March 18th and I'm eating 1 Reese's Piece a day.
Since March, I have been maintaining that dose while I get my life back in order. We knew there was a possibility we would have to do this because JUNIOR YEAR IS THE HARDEST YEAR EVER! (Looking forward to enjoying a relaxing summer now that I'm out of school) Anyway, I also have some bad news. I hate the taste of Reese's Pieces so dosing everyday is still not enjoyable.
I will be heading back to the Allergist tomorrow so I can try a peanut M&M. I think I may like it better because chocolate makes everything taste better...Right?
I was right when I said these two weeks were going to be miserable. This time, the capsules decided to be stubborn and not open easily. There were a few mishaps where the powder spilled onto the counter. I am not pleased to say that I may have responded by rubbing my hand and licking it and maybe even licking the counter...gross! (Don't worry family, I always cleaned the counters after I licked them) Excited for what happens at the appointment tomorrow, but you will have to come back and see because I am not going to spoil the surprise.
I went early this morning and we got there a few minutes early. We were able to run into Target to the starbucks. I was disappointed that they didn't have the ingredients to make a smoothie as I love drinking smoothies for breakfast.
At the appointment, I decided to be different and had it mixed in VANILLA pudding. Okay, it was miserable. I could barely get it down. We will see how the next two weeks will go. Wish me luck.
At the appointment, I worked on reading Allegiant so I can finish it before the movie comes out.
Anyway, here is what 200mg looks like...I have to do 2-100s a day.
