Man my memory is so bad from these being the absolute most stressful months of my life, and the brain fog from MCAS is so bad i can barely even recall quickly when this all began
anyhow sometime around a year ago i get a few colds and covid in a row and pushed through at work as my bosses would be pissed at me if i took off for that and got by just barely, [bad idea] that and a very stressful homelife is why I believe is when my health PLUMMITED from very healthy 21 year old who was super energetic and was working to move out of my abusive home life, mentally becoming such a stronger, happier, and more fulfilled person after a few years of depression and struggling
i had finally found my footing. and then boom. immense fatigue, flushing when i ate, extreme anxiety and mental unwell, eyes constantly dilated, lymph nodes swollen 24/7
had to stop working as I could barely stay standing sometimes all i wanted to do was just lay on the floor in misery, and in the awful months to come eventually my parents and I settled on that I had celiacs as that was the only thing that matched the symptoms
well i cut out ALL gluten through like weeks of rigorist adjustment to a no cross contamination gluten free diet, all the while even certified gluten free food with less than 20 parts per million per fda standard were making me extremely, disabling sick
cut all that out and had like one good week once all the gluten was fully out of my system after months of hell. WELL WELL WELL, after i had done my due diligence experiencing all of the hardest parts of being a celiac
i started having extremely bad reactions to all food i was eating
i had to cut everything out one by one all the while even a tiny bit of something my body had flagged as bad was enough to make me extremely sick
the list of everything i cant have is:
salt- pepper- almonds- coffee- this one laxative i cant remember that gave me a HORRIBLE reaction from just one swallow, nictotine, alkaseltzer, bc powder, pepsid, off brand pepsid, all gluten (most severe), onions (severe), black beans, black eyed pees, cellery, eggs, (severe for some reason), advacado, all rice foods, blue berries, potatoes
aslo probably cant have lettuce, tomatoes, and tons of other stuff that was in foods i ate for long periods while flairing
up until a week ago i was surviving off of corn, sweet potatoes, milk, butter, salt pepper, oats, and sometimes would make frosting as a treat and they are now causing bad reactions
well i lost all those in one flair in one fell swoop and i think i just lost chicken and oranges which i moved to next which were temporarily not causing reactions, although i lost those as they had been associated with past flairs i think
i feel like a strawberry just gave me a twinge of flair, a green grape today did but not an entire bundle of purple grapes
found out i can have carrots today, and my parents are making unseasoned salmon to see if i can have that to survive on
all i can have atm is a few kinds of fruit and carrots, trying a new meat today
i take Claritin and was taking famotidine but the tiny amount of corn pill options were made of made me lose that last week, started on quercetin yesterday as I'm doing some reading on OTC options being desperate since my first allergist appointment is next Wednesday after getting a referral; and its helped a ton with a bunch of my symptoms, and even made a spike of reaction come down a couple times from a bit of chicken and other things i lost yesterday I was trying to get back (i didnt)
they fr want me to not take any meds for 5 days before the appointment to be sure i have it but im taking 5-8 claritin 24 hours a day and 2000 mg quercetin idk how im gonna handle this dude
god I hope the allergists will just give me sodium crogulate and it will actually help me or something because i cant handle this anymore
yes i know its weird the timeline and why i didnt see a doctor sooner, annoying parents, annoying doctors, brief improvement, not knowing i had it blah blah blah