Re: which came first, the allergies or the disease? (edited)

 thank you for you thoughts...I appreciate your care. My sense for a long time is that the pH was a real issue. Now, I know HV feels that the body regulates all this quite well, but I don't see it that way. Of course the blood remains at the crucial pH of whatever it is, seven-something, but in order to do that it must steal from everywhere at times, and calcium is often the first to go

Again this is not quite the case. Respiration is the primary method of pH control so nothing is being stolen. This is why when people do build up acidity such as after exercising hard or during a panic attack (commonly caused by lactate build up) that they breathe hard and fast. What they are doing is reducing the acidity in the body. When the pH returns to normal the respiration drops. If the person becomes too alkaline, such as when hyperventilating, they will actually either stop breathing for a short period of time or their respiration slows to allow the acids to build back up. The body's mineral reserves are a last resort means of buffering acids.

--but then it gets very complicated as the body uses other minerals, as part of its intircate balancing act of keeping the blood within range.
And if there is "high clacium" in the blood, or a "good" pH reading this is viewed by the MD's and patients as the opposite of what's really going on.

That is because elevated serum calcium is dangerous and it can indicate very dangerous conditions including various cancers or hyperparathyroidism. The elevated calcium can cause high blood pressure, muscle cramping/spasms, constipation, heart arrhythmias, etc.

That is, if you have very alkaline blood, this could be all your bones being dissoved away in order to buffer acid. And with the urine pH too,
what you see, is hardely ever showing what's going on on the inside.

That last part I agree with. Urinary pH, as well as salivary pH, does not tell you what is going on inside. Neither reflect the actual blood pH. The only way to determine blood pH is by a blood draw and testing the blood itself.