All posts tagged: Hypersensitivity

When your pharmacist hands you your script refill and tells you that one of the only two meds you take was filled with a different generic….

You end-up mass purchasing the only clothes/loungewear/PJs that does not hurt your skin because everything else feels like a razor, and only adds to the burning feeling radiating off of your body in several places. I will surely say “no thank you” next time a script is filled with a different brand of generic of a medication or supplement I take, because feeling like my veins may burst open through my skin from the horrid pressure and swelling, should be enough in and of itself. Or, the feeling of my hands and fingers being inflamed, swollen, and stiff from pain would be enough as well. And the feelings of having hot spots all over my body and that my skin is burning in places should also be enough to make me say “no thank you” next time also. Oh, and the feeling as if my skin feels is burning on the inside, yet is actually so hot to the touch on the outside also that it does seem as though I may have been burnt …

You know that you have mast cell issues when … 

You react to something in an “organic” Cliff Bar – or, it’s probably the “natural flavors.” The reaction started as soon as I started taking bites and then just got worse. And that was this morning. It has not let up. I’ve taken cromolyn sodium and have tried to avoid needing something else, but I can’t get it under control. I feel terrible – sick to my stomach and like I have hot spots all over my body with a million needles pricking me. I also feel cold and chilled – like a cold draft is constantly blowing on me. My bladder is also been on fire. That was one of the first really bothersome signs that I was having a bigger reaction – bladder pain woke me up and I felt like it was burning inside of me. This is when I hate Interstitial Cystitis (IC) with a passion. My body is clearly flared and angry because I also got an ocular migraine for the first time in 5 years. Resources:  – What is MCAS? …