I’m sorta bummed out today.
When I was away in York we got Chinese takeaway (I got curry sauce, egg fried rice and chips), and everything was fine. We got it again on a different night (this time I had boiled rice instead of egg fried) and I had a terrible allergic reaction to something in the meal – I know this was a reaction to nuts in it as I’ve had it before. My lips were all swollen, my eyes were swollen and puffy, my skin was itchier than usual, my ears were stinging and my throat felt like it was tickling and scratching and it felt funny trying to breathe, often really difficult to breathe but I didn’t think anything of it. I washed my hands and face, cleaned my teeth and removed and traces of the meal and rested for the night. I wasn’t worried at all as it’s something I’ve always just thought of as an inconvenience so I just sorta waited it out and I was fine a few hours later. I sorta forgot about it really, then I decided it’d be best to know exactly what kinda nuts caused this kind of reaction – I wasn’t sure as when it first happened it was when someone was eating a bag of mixed nuts so I’ve always wondered.
So my mam started to look into it, and found that my symptoms of my ‘tickly’ throat are actually my throat beginning to close. My symptoms are bordering on life threatening, and apparently it’s not uncommon for the symptoms to get more severe.
I’ve looked around the Internet for a home blood testing allergy kit, my brother had one a few years back, but I had no luck – I found one that tests blood for 36 different allergens but it costs nearly £90! And after my holiday I just don’t have it, so I’m gonna have to get an appointment at the docs pretty quickly *sigh*
I know this will make me sound like a total wimp, but I’ve never had a blood test before so I’m nervous about it. I’m ok with needles, it’s just the thought of something actually being extracted from me like that, makes me shudder.
Sorry this post is a little sad and dull. I’m feeling ok really, just scared I’ll need to get one of those epipen thingys. All sorts of thoughts are going through my head now, God I’m such a wuss lol. I’ll phone up the doctors tomorrow to try and get an appointment for Wednesday morning, I’ll keep you all posted. Sorry if I’m not around much for the next little while, just need a little time to myself.
Rachy.
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