Two days ago I had the most horrible experience of all. I went too the dermatologist at 11am, I had a small area that was suspicious for cancer he took a small bx and injected a very small amount of xylocaine. He also sprayed my forehead with some sort of spray. I left and had a good day, the only thing different i did was on my way home I stopped and had frozen yougart, and put some different toppings on it. Anyway I went home ate my usual bland dinner and all hell broke loose. I started with nausea then horrible diarrhea then my; head felt as though it was going too explode then I had very high BP and high heart rate. I took extra antihistamine but was so nauseated I could not take too much. I cont too get worse and vomited and had horrible stomach pains. The worst part was my head I felt as though it was going too explode I never had this before. I know it was not a bug. I finally took tramadol and here is a funny, I thought I took tylenol suppository as I was so distraught that I thought it was tylenol. I went too bed but could not sleep but the nausea was going away so I took more zantac and zrytec and atarax and finally I felt better, the next day I still had a bad headache but I found out why I had taken two hemmoridal suppositores instead of tylenol OMG anyway once I took the tylenol I was better. DO any of you think it is related in any way too the xylocaine???? Should I never have that again this has never happened too me before I have been too the derm many times for this, but not since I was dx with this disease???????? I know it was not something bad I ate as I know the difference I have had food poisioning before this was totally different felt like I was dying. At least I felt better the next day.

Goldie, my experience with medications, especially IV or injectables is that they create an almost immediate reaction due to how quickly it gets into the blood stream, so I highly doubt it was the xylocaine.   Since that spray med has been used before without any reacting, I'd also say I doubt it was the culpret.  

My bet is on either the topping, since you say you are limited as to foods, or the physcial stresses of your day, because you know full well that you didn't come home and dinner was magically on the table waiting for you.   Someone had to do the work and that could have been enough to overflow your bucket.   It's done it with me.  

Often we don't consider how stressfull it is to our bodies just the process of getting out the door.   When I'm reacting, just getting dressed to go out can be too much!  That doesn't account for the stress of seeing a doctor or doing even a small medical procedure like you did, nor even just the act of driving the car and all of the energy concentrating on traffic is used.  Then you get home, kids, cooking, decisions, phone calls, demands, etc, etc, etc!   It may not have been one specific trigger, but a build up of several activities that finally overflow your bucket!

But let me say this, when you've got reactions like that, you'd best get yourself to the ER lickety split, dear!!!   I don't mean to scare you but you're not thinking clearly or realizing the danger you are in with high BP and that kind of anaphylaxis!!!   You could have a stroke or a heart attack and with anaphylaxis to that extreme, you are on the edge of cardiopulmonary collapse!!!    The way you describe your symptoms, you should not have been trying to fix this at home - you are past that point dear!   You are being hard headed and putting your life into danger for reasons which when you look at it are really not worth it!  

Look, although going to the ER is a pain in the neck, you are not doing right by your family.   They need you alive and present and you are putting your own life at risk by being stubborn about insisting with the antihistamines when you've already passed that point of their being useful to you.   It's one thing to take them in hope that they can revert the crisis, but if there is little or no reversal of your symptoms within 15 minutes then you've NO TIME TO LOSE you MUST get to the ER STAT!!!

I know the battle within you and I've faced this battle myself for several years now.  This is because I didn't have much choice since my doctors and the ER were not able to recognize my symptoms and we didn't have all the answers we were needing.   I also have been very stubborn insisting that we could handle this and that my crises would not get worse since they seemed to be in a holding pattern.    BOY WAS I WRONG!!!!

My last crisis with perfume is the one where I FINALLY woke up and recognized how stupid and stubborn I've been and how I've not been showing my family the love and concern they deserve.  It would devastate my kids if they lost me now and if they did, it would be MY FAULT for not taking seriously enough the threats to my life.   So, for the past 2 months I've been peparing the emergency folder I need, running after doctors and declarations and meeting with ER doctors making sure we get this up and running JUST IN CASE.    I refuse to go through the torture I went through 2 months ago.   I had my scare, it was enough for me!!  Never again!!!

I hope you too will see that it doesn't have to be this way, and that it too should be NEVER AGAIN for you too!


Hugs!


Lisa