Anxiety and Allergies....my life
Hello,
I've been here for years and I am a very active member, but there is one things that is SO hard for me to talk about that I kind of avoid it. I am also somewhat sick of talking about it ~ I feel like I have spent my whole life talking about my allergies...I am the girl in the plastic bubble.
Food, fragrances, fumes, errr....alcohol, you name it, it can kill me.
I have had anaphylactic shock so many times in the past 18 months that a doctor warned me that I could really die from this. Last time my heart went badly out of rhythm.
And I try so hard and my husband is amazing....he has a file on me the length of your arm, or leg....everything Suze needs to avoid.
But still, as careful as I was as I moved to the States from Aus last year, I got sicker and sicker. My eczema and asthma was the worst of my whole life by far. I was so so stressed and upset all of the time. Itchy and sore and miserable. Unable to breathe.
We did so many things...filters and humidifiers and organic food....no luck. Well, some for sure. But I was still so anxious.
I was growing despondent, wondering if I could live here.
Last week my Australian GP spoke with me on Skype and accidentally found the answer. It's Advil. In the US it (and other meds maybe, I do not know) are made with gelatin caps. I am very very allergic to gelatin. It is not used in Australia for this at all....I now have Advil here from Aus and it is fine for me.
After I stopped using it (and I was not using much except for when I dislocated my jaw last month) things changed.
Nick keeps telling me I am a different person....his Suze again. All of my anxiety dissipated as my eczema started to go away. I have now gone almost two days without an asthma attack. It feels like a miracle.
I am sure I am not alone.....in fact I know I'm not.
I have at least one friend in the 24-hour thread who has horrendous allergies and related stress.
It's awful. Really. The only thing in my life I have ever felt was truly unfair. Yes, far more unfair than being an alcoholic. That I can treat.
How do I treat the world though? I can't....every day of my life is filled with fear.....what perfume or fume is going to knock me out?
Sigh.
Suze xx