Well, it took 11 years to find out I had anaphylaxis. The specialist said that was pretty incredible considering I hadn’t had an anaphylactic shock before. I always knew I had allergies to milk and milk products because of my reactions with milk only when it touched my skin. I’d come up in hives and all sorts. Five years ago when I had a quarter of a cashew… I came up in more than just hives.
I felt sick afterwards and threw up, I was taken to the hospital and they said nothing was wrong. That was until I came back the second time with blotches and hives all over my skin and my throat nearly closed over like my ears. That’s when the staff started panicking. Haha, a bit late guys.
I was lucky it was a delayed reaction or otherwise I would’ve died. They have me a shot of ephinephrine/ adrenaline at the hospital and after that I settled down.
It was bad though as it was happening. Everywhere my skin felt terribly itchy and if that wasn’t bad enough my ears felt all blocked over and my throat. I couldn’t breath properly. The worst was how tight and itchy my throat felt. And every time I’d try to swallow it was like hell. It was a familiar feeling with having a tight throat and not being able to breathe. When I was 5 I had croup. It’s like a backward thing from asthma, but it isn’t asthma. But this was far worse. Somethings happening inside you and you don’t know what it is and you can’t escape. And you feel things are getting worse. That’s being trapped.
I’ve only ever had one attack but that’s enough for me. Anyone else who has had one will know a bit what it’s like. Every attack is different. Some worse than others with different symptoms, but if you’ve got anaphylaxis it’s all lifethreatening. People die from it.
