Anxiety or Pork Loin? Holloween Indigestion?

10/31/11

I am in the hospital today because I am suffering from some kind of anxiety attack. I ate something which I don 't normally eat: pork loin. Small piece. It started just after the meal and continued afterwards throughout the early morning hours. Since I could not determine where the shortness of breath was coming from, I thought that it was coming from the new drug Xyzal. This is levocetirizine dihydrochloride that I posted about before in another post.

Here at the hospital I have suffered two more attacks.  Just after consuming other foods that I have eaten that I have not eaten recently. Colored jello (aspartame) and instant decafe tea. Then they gave me a pill that I have had no experience with. That I will have to wait to see.  It is pantoprazole, or protonix. It is supposed to help with acid in the stomach. I should hope so. They are pumping me full of acidic things here.

I ate the remainder of the pork when I got home from the hospital, I think it was anxiety. 

Antihistamine Added

10/27/11

Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride (Xyzal) was add on 10/27/11. That was 5 days ago. The effects on the allergy front have been great. The depression has eased somewhat. All other symptoms have gotten better as well. Symptoms that are involved are listed in earlier post entitled "allergist appointment notes", dated about 10/18.
Unfortunately I am having an allergic reaction to the drug.  A slow, but progressive, shortness of breath is occurring now. I have come to the ER to have them monitor me as I go through this.


Apparently this was the start of a bout of anxiety attacks, which I am on xanax for now, almost three weeks on.