well that day didn't go as planned
Aug. 20th, 2019 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingThings I have done today:
1. 90-minute web class session on cancellation of debt.
2. 90-minute web class session on vehicle expenses.
3. Bought groceries.
4. Picked up my new Celexa prescription. My old one hasn't actually run out yet, but I asked for the refill a little early in case my doctor's office decided to require an in-person checkup before issuing a replacement.
5. Unexpectedly set off an allergic reaction during the tail end of the morning tax class and spent the time from 11:15am to about 7pm fighting it with varied degrees of success.
I am not sure what the trigger was. I mean, the proximate cause was that I had a small glass of cranberry-pomegranate juice while eating an energy bar that contained almonds and some dried fruit, but I have not had problems with those bars in the past and the juice is pasteurized, so the proteins I react to should have been unraveled and therefore harmless. *hands* Bodies are weird and apparently mine was feeling oversensitive today.
Anyway, I took a Benadryl and hovered close to a sink to keep gargling, rinsing my mouth, and swallowing water (very painful for the first 45 minutes, since it had to get through my swollen and mucus-clogged esophagus) until I felt like I was no longer in danger of choking on my own saliva if I tried to sleep, after which I took an ~3-hour nap before my afternoon tax class. The Benadryl wore off during that class, so after it ended I was once again gargling and drinking absurd amounts of water and took a second Benadryl just before 6pm.
I think everything is back to normal now, since I've had two meals since the trigger food and also the chest pain/hard to swallow part never reoccurred after my nap, but man, that was not fun.
Food allergies suck, fyi. I do not recommend having one.
And now I am going to bed, because hey, Benadryl, and also I am hoping that the lingering aftereffects will be gone by the time I wake up in the morning.
1. 90-minute web class session on cancellation of debt.
2. 90-minute web class session on vehicle expenses.
3. Bought groceries.
4. Picked up my new Celexa prescription. My old one hasn't actually run out yet, but I asked for the refill a little early in case my doctor's office decided to require an in-person checkup before issuing a replacement.
5. Unexpectedly set off an allergic reaction during the tail end of the morning tax class and spent the time from 11:15am to about 7pm fighting it with varied degrees of success.
I am not sure what the trigger was. I mean, the proximate cause was that I had a small glass of cranberry-pomegranate juice while eating an energy bar that contained almonds and some dried fruit, but I have not had problems with those bars in the past and the juice is pasteurized, so the proteins I react to should have been unraveled and therefore harmless. *hands* Bodies are weird and apparently mine was feeling oversensitive today.
Anyway, I took a Benadryl and hovered close to a sink to keep gargling, rinsing my mouth, and swallowing water (very painful for the first 45 minutes, since it had to get through my swollen and mucus-clogged esophagus) until I felt like I was no longer in danger of choking on my own saliva if I tried to sleep, after which I took an ~3-hour nap before my afternoon tax class. The Benadryl wore off during that class, so after it ended I was once again gargling and drinking absurd amounts of water and took a second Benadryl just before 6pm.
I think everything is back to normal now, since I've had two meals since the trigger food and also the chest pain/hard to swallow part never reoccurred after my nap, but man, that was not fun.
Food allergies suck, fyi. I do not recommend having one.
And now I am going to bed, because hey, Benadryl, and also I am hoping that the lingering aftereffects will be gone by the time I wake up in the morning.
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Date: 2019-08-21 01:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-08-21 04:18 pm (UTC)On reflection, I think what probably happened was that I overloaded my body's tolerance window -- that is, I can usually eat small amounts of foods that would be a problem in large amounts, provided I space them out in time and by physically eating bites of safe foods in between -- by using juice to accompany the energy bar, and by eating the bar too close to breakfast at which I'd eaten some craisins as my gesture toward a balanced meal. (My breakfast craisins are generally safe because I space them with a bread product and then follow them rapidly with a hardboiled egg and more bread product.)
But it was an unpleasant reminder that while I can usually prevent an allergic reaction from starting if mind my spacing and/or I take a Benadryl before I eat a triggering food, it's extremely difficult to stop the reaction once it takes hold. *sigh*
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Date: 2019-08-21 01:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-08-21 04:19 pm (UTC)My takeaway is that A) I should not use fruit juice as the accompanying beverage for energy bars that contain dried fruit, and B) I shouldn't eat such energy bars within two or three hours of breakfast anyway, since I usually have some dried fruit as part of my breakfast and I don't want to overload my body's tolerance window. *sigh*