Re: Update on no ASA

[Guest guest]

I think you are mistaken about still being desensitized. According to Scripps you lose you desens approximately 48-72 hours after you stop taking ASA. You have been off for nearly a month.

Of course the only way to tell would be to take a dose of ASA, which could land you in the ER. Please be very careful with ASA and other COX 1 inhibitors.

Marcus

[Guest guest]

i am still not taking any pain killers except tylenol but i am for sure i am

still desens, and

my dr says this can happen. i do not have a flare up from things like mint and

other

salicylate ridden things (like i did before the asa) and when i get muscle

tested for asa i

test that i am still good with it. i will not take any of course but i am sure

i am.

apparently people can stay desens for awhile but still have some old symptoms

come up.

[Guest guest]

glad to hear your polyps have not come back too big. I would suspect

this may take time, but maybe if you are lucky it won't happen.

I don't want people to think one can be off aspirin for 3-4 weeks and

still be desensitized. This is a dangerous presumption. If it has

been more thoroughly tested I would be interested, but otherwise I

don't really think one maintains aspirin sensitivity for this long

after stopping.

Lori

>

> It has been almost one month since my last ASA. I went a whole 3

weeks feeling exactly

> the same as i did when on asa. then at the beginning of this week

i started waking up

> conjested and for 2 days could not breathe out of one nostril and

started getting VERY

> down about all the old familiar symptoms.

>

> but today i went to my ent and he looked up there and i was so

swollen and full of snot

> that he could not see anything. so he put some stuff ( i think

epinephrine or something of

> the like) on some qtips and left them up my nostrils for a few

minutes and everything

> shrank so he could take a look. and i have some very tiny polyps

but they look the same

> as the last time i was there which was when i was still on asa. so

i am very happy that it

> was not large polyps that were blocking my nose. so back to being

good with food and all

> my supplements.

>

> he also gave me an Rx to try the pulmicort respules in my

irrigator. keep you posted on

> that. he gave me a small dose of steroids to keep things open

while i start the pulmicort

> (at my request) and when he did it he said " you know this is just

treating the symptoms,

> not the root " and then told me i should watch my diet which i

already am. and he was

> very happy to here i was in acupuncture school!! what? is this a

real md? i was shocked

> and very pleased. if anyone lives near atlanta i highly recommend

him. well i will keep you

> posted!

> by the way i am still fine with mint so i think i am still desens.

> and the guaifensin i mentioned before is actually called Herbal

Expectorant and is in a

> small bottle.

>

[Guest guest]

I think they have tested this pretty extensively at Scripps.

Some of us don't have sensitivity to mint to begin with.

I don't know how scientific the muscle testing is, but I suppose I

can't disregard it completely.

I guess I am just trying to say let's not generalize this to

everyone ... not that you were doing so, but I just want to be clear

if this is true for you, it still is probably not true for MOST

people.

Lori

>

> i am still not taking any pain killers except tylenol but i am for

sure i am still desens, and

> my dr says this can happen. i do not have a flare up from things

like mint and other

> salicylate ridden things (like i did before the asa) and when i get

muscle tested for asa i

> test that i am still good with it. i will not take any of course

but i am sure i am.

> apparently people can stay desens for awhile but still have some

old symptoms come up.

>