Flavor Allergy

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HoneyGram57

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I've been vaping for a bit over six months. Tried a few flavors the first month but after discovering there was no way to replicate the flavor of my cigarettes I settled for my next best friend...COFFEE! Can't live without the stuff. I've vaped a couple dozen DIY recipes and loved them all for the most part, could easily continued vaping coffee flavors the rest of my life and never missed cigarettes but my body had different ideals.
After three months my skin and eyes began to burn. I'd read enough here to know it could be an allergy as the only time I was symptom free was first thing in the morning before I started vaping with symptoms beginning shortly after I'd start vaping. However with DIY there was a long process of elimination to find what was triggering the burn. I'm not willing to invest in all new flavors and nicotine so until I reorder I shoot for a 10/90 mix and am tolerating it. I found The Villain to be my beloved coffee, all varieties of it, from TPA to Nature's Flavors!
I'd been suspecting the coffee for a couple months which is why I ordered the Nature's Flavors organic variety so I could make a totally 100% VG mix of it to vape at time I was symptom free. I'd been vaping other flavors for several days and was relieved to be totally symptom free, that is until I vaped my coffee again. Within the hour skin is on fire again and my eyes look like I'm shooting lasers. :blink:
One thing I've learned from this is to rotate my flavors! My thinking was I smoked the same flavor cigarette for 40 years, who needs a pantry full of e-liquid flavors!? Well, I guess I do, I don't want to become allergic to another flavor due to constant use.
Thank God it's not been worst; I can still vape and drink my beloved coffee!
 

HoneyGram57

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I thought I was allergic to flavor apprentice sweetener
It's taken me 3 months to nail this down! You have to go back to unflavored PG then unflavored VG then different percentages. If ALL that goes well then you add flavors back in 1 at a time, a day at a time. It gets more complicated it the allergy is caused by a combination of flavors or a flavor used at a certain percentage. Luckily I found the flavor as soon as I started adding flavors back in, I just didn't want to give it up. I tried EVERYTHING to keep my beloved coffee, I finally had to concede defeat.
 
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