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[greenstorm]

This morning I got up, fed and watered animals, collected eggs, refilled the fire, got dressed, packed a breakfast and a lunch, warmed up the truck, drove to work...

...and realized I'd left my work laptop at home so I drove back home and am working from home right now. I'll go in at lunch, and then leave work early for the kiln openings in the afternoon. Bear and Whiskey are very happy. Bear is kissing me and softpawing my face and purring.

Given that I had to wait for a moose to cross the road on top of that it's a slow work morning.

I've been having real trouble breathing. Benedryl works for it. I've been wondering if some of my breathing stuff was maybe partial silent anaphylaxis. My skin has always reacted with random allergy-response, and I've wondered about the rest of my body. It likely warrants a doctor's walk-in visit sooner than I can get in to my regular doctor. It's really unpleasant to try and breathe but have my throat stick to itself when I'm trying to get air in.

Writing it out like that, and that I have a plan to stagger out past my gate and close it behind me and text someone to call 911 if my throat really closes, so the animals are ok-- yeah, I should probably treat this with some urgency, because that is not a desireable outcome and it's uncomfortable. And who knows, maybe they can do something about it.

Edited to add: I opened my mason jar of tea and noticed I left the spoon in it from adding honey this morning too.

Comments

[graydon2]

the breathing is important!

[lee_future]

Silent anaphylaxis is terrifying. I had that, also solved by immediate doses of benedryl, until I got through my five year series of allergy shots. Occasionally it would get better if I could make myself vomit and clear any allergens from my upper airway that found themselves there. The number of times that happened on the bus system before figuring this out was ...not small.

I really hope that you get an allergist appointment asap to figure out what is going on there, and that when you do, they take you seriously about how distressing this is and how unfortunate things could get with your location and independent way of moving through life. I know shots aren't an easy solution, unless you have a nurse to inject and supervise for adverse effects in community.

If it helps (not medical advice, but for comparison to when you do get medical advice), when we hit the ER for such, the recommendation was to take both the usual dose of benedryl AND 10mg loratadine (Claritin) 1x when it first happens. I carried around a dose like an oxygen mask with my water bottle.

If still not resolved, then the ER would give you 20mg loratadine twice a day (twice the usual dose on the bottle, twice a day) to bring things under control. Risks: your kidney and liver will be pushed harder to process this, so Do Not imbibe alcohol or things to additionally tax it during this time, and listen to your body if it starts to have cramps/pain that are unusual to you and stop to get things assessed by medical providers.

[greenstorm]

I'm not sure it's a single-allergy issue, based on some past things I think it may be MCAS-related but I don't even know how to bring that up with my doctor. I see her every three months and I'm never sure which issue takes precedence. I guess a telehealth referral to an allergist might be an option that won't take up time trying to deal with the hormone stuff.

Gosh I wish it were as easy as five years of shots though, like some sort of clear path.

[lee_future]

Managing medical stuff is exhausting.

[greenstorm]

Truth. It should not need to be done by people whose symptoms include "exhaustion" (laugh/cry emoji)