I am so sorry to hear you are feeling so awful Gloria. We have all been there and it is rough until we understand what triggers us and what our bodies can and cannot handle. And to do all of this when we feel so sick makes it even more difficult.
I hope I am not speaking out of turn here....I am still very new at this. But.......here goes....
I am assuming you did NOT start ALL of the medications you gave below at one time, did you???? I know personally, the medications you listed, I have had severe enough reactions to each of them that I can not take any one of them (claritan, Zantac, or Allegra). I had trouble with fillers in them, dyes in them, the lactose monohydrate in them.....each one of us are SOOOOO different that we react to sooo many things that others don't react to!
On the other hand, if those medications were already established, then it certainly could be the cromolyn that is causing you to feel so awful.
It took me 4 months to get up to 3 vials of cromolyn a day!! I am still working on the vial no. 4 and Dr. Afrin wants me to increase it to 6-8 vials a day.
I think Ramona has a good thought, stop the cromolyn and see if you stabilize. If you were on all of the h1 and h2 blockers before you started the cromolyn and had no problems, then I would give my body a break before trying to start the cromolyn again. (Joan's suggestion is a good one, she is the one who helped me, or I surely would have given up). I started by mixing
one vial in 16 oz. of water and ONLY took
ONE tablespoon every hour...and I did this for 3 or 4 days before I added more. Then I put ONE vial in a water bottle (which is usually 16 oz.) and sipped it periodically throughout the day. (Every time I took a sip I got dizzy). I still am not able to take it in the morning before I eat....I get super dizzy and nauseated. So I start it close to lunch time and continue to drink it throughout the day into the evening. When I asked Dr. Afrin about doing it that way he said to take it whatever way that I could tolerate it best, we are all so different. The specific "regiment" can come later.
I think we often forget, that because we REACT TO ALMOST EVERYTHING.....it is certainly plausible that we would react to the medications that should be helping us and that shouldn't be making our symptoms worse??? Right?? BUT they are invading our bodies and "stirring up or mast cells too!". I think the key to all of this is to DO IT SLOWLY and as Joan always says, "baby steps lead to more progress than Big Steps do."
If you weren't on the other h1 and h2 blockers before, I would talk to your doctor and see if you could change one (change Claritan for Zyrtec for example)...Deb is a good resource for these issues. I know since I couldn't take Zantac, I use Pepcid. Wow...after 40 mg. of Pepcid my horrible stomach pain was completely gone in about 15-20 minutes. But again.....we are all different and what is good for one of us may not be good for another. I think we need to experiment and try to find the best combination for ourselves (within the limits our doctors give us of course).
I hope this somehow helps and my rambling after midnight makes some sense.
Please take care and let us know how you are doing.
Hugs to you, Lynda
p.s. Do you feel you are being careful enough as far as the levels of histamine in the foods you eat? I know food is my biggest trigger and I am still extremely limited in my diet. When my mast cells have to deal with food AND meds, it almost seems like it is just to much at one time and my symptoms just explode!
I know I have to spread them out. Just a thought...........