I FReepmailed him.
Been there, done that, although not positive about the anaphylactic shock. I’ve had bizarre symptoms that when I google them up, that’s the only thing that fits, but it never progresses. I don’t get hives or swelling and my blood pressure doesn’t drop. It, along with my heart rate, shoot up like his.
It lasts between a half an hour and 45 mins and subsides almost as fast as it comes on, medicine or not. It’s like my body is fighting it.
It is very debilitating and has effectively prevented me from working part time for extra income as well.
I have to carry my own food with me everywhere and cannot travel anywhere I can’t be sure of getting PLAIN, unsalted chicken (beef, lamb) and oats.
Do you have any idea how much of our lives revolves around food? I’d rather just not be able to eat at all than to have to eat and restrict it so much and wonder if what I’m eating this time will throw me into another reaction.
I haven’t felt good in ages.
You aren’t allowed any salt?
When I was in the hospital NPO for a couple of days the food commercials near killed me. Especially the red lobster ones.
The hospital channel (they had a terrible lineup - CNN, USA, Lifetime, and network tV and TNT) was food and exercise and nothing else. I kept thinking, they think they are helping, and in the meantime, I bet half the people in this place can’t eat anything they are showing.
As someone who has all kinds of food difficulties (nothing like yours, though) I am well aware of how society tortures folks like us through food.
I hope you get some kind of victory soon. I understand what you mean when you say you’d rather not eat at all. I told my doctor that and he didn’t understand.
Every time they put me on clear fluids I end up just sick, sick, sick.