Super Sensitive

Nov.1
I am super sensitive to many things as evidenced by what happened yesterday here in hospital. For the first meal I could only eat the carrots. The breaded chicken, mac and cheese, cake had to be sent back.
In the mean time the jello-(fake colored and aspartame) and the instant tea caused a type of anxiety. The anxieties came on shortly after consuming the foods and cleared about one half hour later.
The new medication, Xytol , was given to me as antihistamine. I did research to determine if I could get a cheaper source for it. I found it listed on a Canadian pharmacy as a psychotropic drug affecting mood. This coincides with some comments made by Dr K. and other information that I have found. Antidepressants are commonly used to control allergic reactions.

Hell Weeks

      10/11/11

       It has been hell weeks since about the . Not only did        I   have to go through an attack of the horrors for weeks not knowing what it was--waking up in my room

•  depressed, 
• unbalanced,
•  constipated, then going into the rest of the house. And 
• itchy skin, 
• eyes ,
• popping ears, 
• cankers happening within about 20 minutes. The 
• anxiety and then 
•  depression occurs.  Finally I got a prednisone shot and took prednisone tablets for a week. But I could not take it and I tried Allerga as well. This messed up the allergy test, because to take one of those tests no antihistamine can be taken. So another week was needed to detox my body from the antihistamine.

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. 

Thought Bubbles:Terror

This whole thing of being diagnosed with dust mite, dust, grass allergies. Has been two things : relief to know that it is an allergy situation :pain in the ass to know that as an allergy it may never go away.
How does God fit into this?crying in the night to Him when the depression is on me. Then relief sets in as the drug settles in and somehow I pull back from Him. I want to search for Him even when the pain and fear subsides. For the face of God,as I see Him is loving. His hands hold me, as I walk through this, my terror.

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.

Anderson Allergy-Sarah Vaviso

Oct 26
I saw nurse practitioner Sarah V.  at the allergy practice today. My testing showed no mold problems, but huge dust and dust mite problems.  But that does not change the symptoms that I have been having.
Good news:  they have shots that will help control that. The pill that would help would be Singular. So on to tomorrow. They will continue testing for food problems.

The testing only tells if I am allergic to it. The test does not tell them the intensity of the reactions. What I feel inside. They said that the ear problem could be unrelated. I will see. The ear popping happens in the morning after I have slept all night on an unprotected mattress- no allergenic protector. Balance problems all day.

CT scan of sinuses came back OK.  I would think that that would show up if the problem was a permanent one, not allergic in nature.
I want to email Doris Rapp people. And find someone here in Orlando that I can go to. Trained by her, or her people.

Thought Bubbles

What Makes Me Believe!!!

I get inspired by the way God paints! Yeah! 

Throws the paint down to the earth in the form of flowers, grass,

 The rolling clouds are His fingers as He sculpts His domains.

Shadows play along the leaves and 

weave patterns of delight

to my eyes!

He is truly here with us. 

Silence the soul and open the your

eyes to Him.

art work copyright Janet Matthews and available at

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