dave2007
13-05-08, 18:58
Hi everyone,
I have been wondering if anyone has had experience with similar symptoms. I have developed a large number of allergies in the last ten years or so. I haven't gone mad about it and I only had two allergy tests done to date. However, I have noticed that since my panic attacks started I increasingly start to worry about allergic reactions and dying from the same. So much so, that I have stopped drinking any alcohol (I tested positive for red-wine and beer yeast) and worry a lot about green vegetables (even though I had never any confirmed test on that one), red fruits (I am allergic to cheeries), and fish (I'm allergic to crustacians). All of this has immensly reduced my diet and my fun. I am also allergic to most bath foams, biological washing powder and mold. My allergic reactions to all these things vary, I get hayfever like symptoms from red-wine and cherries, my face blows up from crustacians, and I get prickly heat all over my back from washing powder and mold.
I am taking anti-hystamines on a daily basis, but some of my allergic reactions haven't stopped. Especially the prickly heat, it's like a thousand pins and needles hitting your back all at once. Sometimes it's so bad that I can't even move. I had this for years and it never really bothered me that much apart from making me feel uncomfortable and needing to find some way of cooling down quickly when it happened. I was told at the allergy clinic that I just have to live with it because they know about this condition, but they don't know what to do about it.
However, since my first panic attack a couple of months ago I start freaking out every time I get prickly heat on my back and once or twice I went into full blown panic mode because of it. And what's really strange, I don't tend to get it on the parts of my body that are exposed to the sun, but rather on those that are not. I am beginning to think that it might have become psychosomatic...
Has anyone had any similar experiences and what did you do to overcome this?
Thanks,
dave
I have been wondering if anyone has had experience with similar symptoms. I have developed a large number of allergies in the last ten years or so. I haven't gone mad about it and I only had two allergy tests done to date. However, I have noticed that since my panic attacks started I increasingly start to worry about allergic reactions and dying from the same. So much so, that I have stopped drinking any alcohol (I tested positive for red-wine and beer yeast) and worry a lot about green vegetables (even though I had never any confirmed test on that one), red fruits (I am allergic to cheeries), and fish (I'm allergic to crustacians). All of this has immensly reduced my diet and my fun. I am also allergic to most bath foams, biological washing powder and mold. My allergic reactions to all these things vary, I get hayfever like symptoms from red-wine and cherries, my face blows up from crustacians, and I get prickly heat all over my back from washing powder and mold.
I am taking anti-hystamines on a daily basis, but some of my allergic reactions haven't stopped. Especially the prickly heat, it's like a thousand pins and needles hitting your back all at once. Sometimes it's so bad that I can't even move. I had this for years and it never really bothered me that much apart from making me feel uncomfortable and needing to find some way of cooling down quickly when it happened. I was told at the allergy clinic that I just have to live with it because they know about this condition, but they don't know what to do about it.
However, since my first panic attack a couple of months ago I start freaking out every time I get prickly heat on my back and once or twice I went into full blown panic mode because of it. And what's really strange, I don't tend to get it on the parts of my body that are exposed to the sun, but rather on those that are not. I am beginning to think that it might have become psychosomatic...
Has anyone had any similar experiences and what did you do to overcome this?
Thanks,
dave