So, I recently have accepted the fact that I have a [few] food allergies. How many? I don't know. How serious? I don't know, either. For years I have lived with my lips swelling when I ate fruits, or avacados, or drank soymilk, but I never bit the bullet and accepted that my body was allergic to it until this past week when my body just got tired of fighting off the little reactions and I had a severe reaction.
It had happened before; taking a bite of sushi with a peice of ginger on it when all of a sudden I felt like I was going to die. My throat closing up fast, my body panicking, and me freaking out just like I was dying. However, after a few sips of water, and calming down after being told I was a hypochondriac (fact), I was fine. Good as new. I continued to deny any food allergy just as before, regardless if the avacados in my sushi made my throat itch.
Yet, this past time I was not fine. I was at a sushi place (again) and had just tried a little bit of a spice that contained ginger in it before I ate a few peices of sushi with this yummy spice on it. Then, it hit me--hard. I was "dying" again. Luckily, this time, too I regained composure and calmed down before my body reacted even further. After a benadryll, I was fine but not good as new. I am determined to find out what exactly is causing such a reaction so I can eat sushi (and other foods) and not be scared!
Thankfully, I have a loving boyfriend, Jace, who is not an allergy dummy and is experienced in all things allergy-like. He has agreed to help me self-diagnose my food allergy. I don't feel like spending $100+ dollars on an allergy test with needles and other scary things, so we are going to do our own "homemade" test. With the aide of his EPI pen, benadryll, and a plate of sushi and ginger-- we will see just what causes my body to hit the point of anaphylaxic shock.
Stupid? Probably, but whatever. Its another excuse to get to eat sushi. Anyways. As you can tell, my first post doesn't talk about FDA, or Big Pharma, or anything controversial really...I think that this is best for now. I'd rather post about one of those subjects as my muse allows me to.
More to come, hopefully,
Michelle
Yay baby! I love your writing style!
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, our "home" test is probably dangerous and irresponsible. So, we will make sure and be safe about it...like not shoving the whole piece of sushi in your mouth. Maybe just putting the ginger on your tongue and seeing what happens.