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alergic symptoms titanium dioxide
Hi, I have done a blood test - I'm alergic of dioxine Titanium ! What are the clinical symptoms of this kind of allergy ?
Thanks for your help
Thanks for your help
I've found rite aid will help me. they checked into the titanium dioxide issue for me and found a liquid version of my rx without TI. (Lexapro) hope this helps!
I know it to be true! was having arthritic pain without having artritis, verified with blood tests. it was the TI coating Plavix. stopped drug, stopped pain. Bought some coconut pill supplements, with TI listed on the front, big letters! Was crippeled with joint pain, tendon pain. Stopped taking them less than 2 weeks pain gone. Another great source was my So Delishous non dairy creamer. Drank lots. Low pain tolerance developed. Now searching for new creamers. not much luck, making my own for now. may have to quit coffee!
I know it to be true! was having arthritic pain without having artritis, verified with blood tests. it was the TI coating Plavix. stopped drug, stopped pain. Bought some coconut pill supplements, with TI listed on the front, big letters! Was crippeled with joint pain, tendon pain. Stopped taking them less than 2 weeks pain gone. Another great source was my So Delishous non dairy creamer. Drank lots. Low pain tolerance developed. Now searching for new creamers. not much luck, making my own for now. may have to quit coffee!
I got lost somewhere a long the way. :) So fast forward 4 yr and I have hives in all the places I use o just itch. My patch testing by Dermo upset me so much I sort of gave-up on DRs for a while. They tested me and there is days of not being able to shower etc and they lied to me. They had no way to test for TD but did not tell me till after I suffered through the test to satisfy there curiosity. I walked out and never returned. By eliminating everything I used with TD I got better. Then I seem to forget, fooled myself into thinking maybe I was not allergic to TD. I stopped being so careful and now here I am reminding myself of everything again. I have also developed an allergy to many adhesives like surgical steri-strips (used instead of stiches) and that square they put on your IV. I can use what the Drs call paper tape, in case someone else has this issue. My favorite body wash I used for years now has TD. I am finding since TD makes thing hard it's in anything with a scrub. Like Caress Body Wash Evenly Gorgeous and any of the St. Ives facial scrubs.
I do not have any implants and hope it never comes to that but since I live in San Antonio I'm gonna look into what's new in implants someone posted about.
I just ordered the Melisa test so we'll see what happens. Going back to my allergist also but not Dermatology.
What did you end up doing with your meds? I am not on very many but I need to check them all again. I'll try to wait till my test comes back even though the TD allergy is listed on my drug profile. I am sure it is not double checked unless I say something. Regards Polarbearcubtx
I do not have any implants and hope it never comes to that but since I live in San Antonio I'm gonna look into what's new in implants someone posted about.
I just ordered the Melisa test so we'll see what happens. Going back to my allergist also but not Dermatology.
What did you end up doing with your meds? I am not on very many but I need to check them all again. I'll try to wait till my test comes back even though the TD allergy is listed on my drug profile. I am sure it is not double checked unless I say something. Regards Polarbearcubtx
I am so glad I found this site but as I read I just don't know which post to respond to as they are all related to my current problem. I have a titanium mesh in my skull after Acoustic Neuroma surgery. I had blood tests at the allergist in Denver National Jewish health for Allergy and asthma. Here is my story in brief:
I too have allergies to the implants and am about to have the TItanium mesh removed because of this. It is in my skull for an Acoustic Neuroma back in 2010...4 years now and has caused me pain since. I went to the Denver National Jewish Health for Asthma and Allergy last summer. The doctor determined that I am allergic to Titanium. I saw her on TV where she spoke about a woman allergic to the nickle in the hip transplant. I can't wait for this to come out. All the implants contain Nitriline discovered by the Defense Dept in the early 1950s. Dr. Pacheco is developing blood tests there and hopefully they can be used world wide so that you can know before hand whether you are allergic to Nickle (45%) or Titanium (55%). It is best to do things the old fashioned way and to find a surgeon that is willing to do things the old fashioned way without using artificial implants. My cervical laminectomy consists of bone taken from my hip back in 1988. I found a doc. at GW that was willing to do this again because of my allergy to nitriline. These implants are made in Shanxi China and I contacted them to find out what exactly is in the alloy in the implants they make for Stryker
I too have allergies to the implants and am about to have the TItanium mesh removed because of this. It is in my skull for an Acoustic Neuroma back in 2010...4 years now and has caused me pain since. I went to the Denver National Jewish Health for Asthma and Allergy last summer. The doctor determined that I am allergic to Titanium. I saw her on TV where she spoke about a woman allergic to the nickle in the hip transplant. I can't wait for this to come out. All the implants contain Nitriline discovered by the Defense Dept in the early 1950s. Dr. Pacheco is developing blood tests there and hopefully they can be used world wide so that you can know before hand whether you are allergic to Nickle (45%) or Titanium (55%). It is best to do things the old fashioned way and to find a surgeon that is willing to do things the old fashioned way without using artificial implants. My cervical laminectomy consists of bone taken from my hip back in 1988. I found a doc. at GW that was willing to do this again because of my allergy to nitriline. These implants are made in Shanxi China and I contacted them to find out what exactly is in the alloy in the implants they make for Stryker
Yes! I Google this every few years but this is the first time I've found this page.
I discovered that TiO2 was the common culprit among the things that cause me joint pain back in 2003 (after several years of trying to find out - ultimately it was cough drops and sprinkles that informed me!), and the last 10 years have been a fun adventure of learning the exact right way to tell doctors that NO, I cannot take just any medication, and learning what kinds of foods and household products I can and can't use.
I've gotten pretty good at IDing on sight the things I should avoid (or check the ingredients on), over time, and I quit my career in solid state chemistry because every lab I worked in had powdered TiO2 in it (which aerosolize and get into the lungs no matter how careful you are), and I made my partner switch toothpaste/other products, etc. I'm lucky that I'm not hugely allergic so my skin doesn't usually break out, though I just today realized that maybe my pain over the last few months is due to the anchors my dentist put on my teeth for my invisalign retainers.
For the person who was wondering whether titanium implants are the same thing: the center of it isn't, it's plain titanium metal, but anything made out of titanium metal will have a very thin coating of titanium dioxide completely covering the surface (invisible to the eye, but this is why titanium is such a promising metal for medical uses: that coating makes it so that the metal doesn't rust). It's not something they do to the metal on purpose - it's just how titanium metal reacts to air/moisture.
I discovered that TiO2 was the common culprit among the things that cause me joint pain back in 2003 (after several years of trying to find out - ultimately it was cough drops and sprinkles that informed me!), and the last 10 years have been a fun adventure of learning the exact right way to tell doctors that NO, I cannot take just any medication, and learning what kinds of foods and household products I can and can't use.
I've gotten pretty good at IDing on sight the things I should avoid (or check the ingredients on), over time, and I quit my career in solid state chemistry because every lab I worked in had powdered TiO2 in it (which aerosolize and get into the lungs no matter how careful you are), and I made my partner switch toothpaste/other products, etc. I'm lucky that I'm not hugely allergic so my skin doesn't usually break out, though I just today realized that maybe my pain over the last few months is due to the anchors my dentist put on my teeth for my invisalign retainers.
For the person who was wondering whether titanium implants are the same thing: the center of it isn't, it's plain titanium metal, but anything made out of titanium metal will have a very thin coating of titanium dioxide completely covering the surface (invisible to the eye, but this is why titanium is such a promising metal for medical uses: that coating makes it so that the metal doesn't rust). It's not something they do to the metal on purpose - it's just how titanium metal reacts to air/moisture.
Yes yes yes it's awful bb cream and eyeshadow I now have to take a magnifying glass with me to look at the ingredients in ant makeup or lotion
go to the melisa test site online...they have a link for labs that do the melisa test...there is only one in the usa...its on new jersey...the site will send you a kit for the test if you need, have the blood drawn and sent to the lab in new jersey. site says it takes about a week for the results....the blood wrk is time sesitive
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