Hello all! Thank you for all the informative posts!!! It's good to be armed with all this information. So for about a week I've been feeling real awful. It actually started with my first dose of singulair. Over the next few days I came down with one of the worst flus I've had in a long time. (I read that singulair can do this??? Any thoughts on this?) i stopped taking the singulair in fear that there was a connection. Then I went down to UC Davis, which was for the most part a big waste of time. She did give me the go ahead to take more antihistamine than I was currently taking. She pretty much gave my chart blanch to tinker around. I usually take Allegra and zantac, and Zyrtec as my "emergency"med. So over the past week I've been trying different combinations with my meds, but I don't feel well. I've tried ditching my Allegra and opting for 2 Zyrtec a day. I've tried a taking a 3rd Zantac. I tried addding a 25 mg benadyl to te mix. I tried to take 2 allegra and one zyrtec (i notice that when i take too much allegra, my arms and hands seem to get pins and needles easily during the night!) And today I took my Allegra (and zantac) in the am and Zyrtec early afternoon (which is pretty much what i was doing before  )I feel ok, but slightly on the edge. Maybe trying all this with the flu wasn't such a good idea! Lol I don't know! Do you find it important to space your antihistamines out when you take more than one kind? I'm tempted to try the singulair again. I'm just so flippin scared! I think we all can relate..... Never know what you're going to get! I am soooo sensitive to meds, and often have adverse reactions. Vistoril (which is supposed to be calming and sedating) was first prescribed to me as my rescue med and it spun me through the roof!!!  Anyways, I would appreciate any thoughts, even if it's to tell me I'm nuts!!!!! Lol speaking of nuts (I swear I'm really a normal girl:)) I can't help but wonder how the psychiatric drugs I've bee bout on through all this play a part in the way I feel. Does anyone else have any experience of going up and down the crazy med roller coaster like me?? How do these meds effect people with mast cell disorder? How do these meds and antihistamines interact???? Gosh, I am so tired of evaluating myself trying to figure out what makes me feel bad, what makes me feel good. I just want to live again!!!!!! Thanks for listening😉
brigitte

Thank you for responding Lyn I know I must sound crazy manic the way I described going through my meds and trying different combinations!!lol. Though not protocol, it wasn't too manic! I tried to do it mindfully! I started Allegra 2 and 1/2 years ago when I was diagnosed. I was told to take 1 180 mg, Zantac twice a day and vistoril (hydroxyzine) as my "rescue" med. at the time of diagnosis, I was nonstop triggering to the new carpet we laud in our house, some crazy strong commercial cleaner I was mopping our tile with and all the other frangrances around me, BUT, I didn't know I was triggering. I was diagnosed high anxiety and put on a bunch of meds. It took a good year plus to make a connection between my triggers and my "panic attacks". My doctor refused to see a connection. So I did the meds as prescribed. Bit I noticed that I didn't feel too well on the 180 Allegra, so I bought the 60mg. I was taking those along with my Zantac twice a day. Still not feeling well, I went down to 1 60 mg. Allegra a day. The vistoril didn't work for me at all. It spun me out for days, couldn't sleep, it was awful! So I couldn't take that. So I bought Zyrtec and started using that as my "rescue" med for awhile. It was when I became part of this forum again that I started taking my 60 mg Allegra, 2 Zantac and added 1 Zyrtec perminately to my meds. So it's been about 4 weeks that I've been doing that. But I still don't feel very good, which could be a combination of stress, triggers, or simply not being on the right meds. When I went to Davis she told me to take Zyrtec twice a day. So I started that, but it didn't make me feel any better. In fact it gave me a headache. So 2 Friday's ago insurance finally approved my singulair, I was so excited to try this med! The first night I felt pretty good, a little weird but good. The next day I started coming down with this flu, temperature, cough, headache, mucus in my chest. It was weird because I don't know anyone who is sick and my husband and son didn't catch it. That's when I saw that these are "common" side effects of singulair! Ugh! Coincidence or not, I stopped taking that for now. So here I am. One 60 mg Allegra, I Zyrtec and 2 Zantac. I haven't tried Claritin! I didn't know that was an option! As far as calming down and breathing, I know I need to do that more for sure. Sad story on that. I knew I needed to learn how to get my body into a parasympathetic state or at least learn to ground myself when I'm feeling "squirelly", lol, so at the advice of a good friend 3 weeks ago I made an appointment with a reiki specialist. Again, I was so excited! But when I went in the room to lay on the bed, all I could smell was laundry detergent and fabric softener!!!! Ugh! I had to get up and leave But the frustrating thing is that I know this feeling of adrenaline overload, on edge, wound up feeling forbear triggering. I just know it. So I will keep fighting. Today I made another appointment with a local immunologist/ internal medicine doc! I hear he is wonderful! Now whether he knows anything about mast cells disorders is a while other story! Hes out of the office this week, so I was unable to ask. I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed! Thanks again for responding Lyn. It helps knowing there are people out there who will listen!!! and I'm always here for anybody who needs someone to lean on too! anymore advice??... I'll take it!!!!!

Thanks pj! Maybe I should stop my
AU meds for a day or two and see what happens! Maybe it's because I've been diagnosed bipolar type 2 (which I'm not completely sold on) but I keep thinking I should try Doxipin, but then when I REALLY think about it, the thought of trying a new drug scares the $@&># out of me! I have tried sooo many pschyiatric drugs over the past 8 years, and I almost always experience either a bad side effect or a bad reaction. That is why I question all the drugs I'm on. I started off on Zoloft, and I never felt good on it, so instead of taking me off of it, they just added to it! I just feel that over the past few years I've gotten myself into a complicated mess and I don't know where or how to start to get out of it? Do I need these psychiatric meds?????? I don't know! Maybe all I need is to get my mast cells under some control!

Haha! I want bipolar!!! Trust me, I want to be diagnosed with anything that will give me a drug to make me feel better! Lol. I suppose we should be careful for what we ask for! I must remember that things could be a lot worse. All I want is to get to a point where I can get a few good days under my belt and forget about this stuff for awhile! Always montitoring myself for how I feel is getting old. But it's hard not to do when you feel so crummy. It's a vicious circle  

Wanted to throw out that I had trouble with allerga, It just made me feel on edge, so I stopped that and use claritin and zyrtec instead.  I agree with Lynn slow and steady when switching meds, I got into some trouble switching to fast!
Pam

Hi redbird   what do you mean by this? I understand the first part, take it slow. I bought generic target Claritin today, so I will cut it in half in the morning and see you it goes! But what did you mean by the second part about the antibody!?