Thanks Pam and Hope
! So I know I'm always on here with questions, seldom any answers, but I am still not feeling well. I will get a couple days reprieve, then I do something, I usually don't know what, to start it all over again. I truly do believe I'm salicylate sensitive. I say that mostly because of the strong reactions I've always had to herbal stuff, and because of my strong reactions by inhaling things (laundry detergents etc) which I know now are usually heavy in salicylates. I just don't know if I'm over analyzing this, or if it is really not the root of my problem (the root is the mast cell disorder) but my main trigger. My son's 9th birthday party was Saturday. We had a pool party. So that morning I broke out my Coppertone unscented sunscreen and put it all over both me and my son. By the early afternoon I was really irritable and my mind was spinning. That night I felt horrible. I kept having these waves of nausea and dizziness while in bed, and my dreams were very lucid and somewhat disturbing.
On Sunday morning I felt terrible. Like I was on the brink of an panic like episode. Then while I was sitting on the couch, I got really nauseous and I felt like I had just been given nitrous oxide at the dentist.....that whooosh whoosh dizzy feeling. Then I started sweating like crazy. I had an equally as crazy nights sleep that night.
Yesterday I started thinking, what could have done this? I thought of the sunscreen and googled the ingredients. The 2nd active ingredient was a salicylate hidden under another name.
So here it is Tuesday, and I still fell like hell. Very edgy. My body seems to shutter at the smallest of unexpected noise and I just feel worn out and my stomach is a mess.
I've taken quite a bit of antihistamines the past couple of days as well as Epsom baths, and I've been eating very simple, meat with salt, bread, plain rice etc. I am hoping that this will pass by tomorrow.
I just wanted to get y'all's thoughts on this. Does this sound like a mast cell episode?
Mind you that I have also been diagnosed bipolar type 2, and I question that diagnosis because of the mast cell issues, but I cannot rule it out. Then that leads me to question all the meds I'm on for that? Could they have sals in them? I asked my pharmacist to check for me, but I don't think she got it. I think she was thinking aspirin, and she told me that there were no sals in my meds.
So (sorry to keep rambling) I decided to try and google some of the ingredients in the meds myself. Especially those that I no longer take, but had a bad reaction to. I looked up name brand synthroid and found that it contains acacia in it! I'm having a hard time finding the ingredients to my other meds since they are generic, but I'm wondering if maybe this is playing a part in me always feeling so awful! (Or of course that I'm on the wrong meds!) ugh!!!! Just needed to vent. Summer is here, my favorite time of year, and all I want to do is roll up into a little ball in my bed and stay there
One more question.....do those of you who are salicylate sensitive have problems with sodium lauryl sulfate? I know it's common in shampoos, but I have also found it is a common inactive ingredient in a lot of medications. I've been looking for a dye free slow release iron and all I can find is Masons natural slow release but it has sls in it
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