I had a very drastic allergic reaction late on Saturday night, with no obvious trigger. Initially I was aware of feeling very very itchy in a few places, and thought "that's weird". A few minutes later that was dying back when I happened to notice in the mirror some funny lumps, and as I was watching noticed my chest felt slightly tight. I called my wife "you need to come here" and in the 20-30s that took, I was totally covered in classic 'nettle rash' and struggling to breath and stay conscious.
We have an oximeter and it showed my O2 had fallen to high 80s. We happen to have strong antihistamines in the house so I took one and then we waited to see if it got worse and we needed to call 999. I was fairly with it and remember really not wanting to go to A&E the Saturday night after an England game It hovered like that for maybe 5 minutes then gradually but consistently eased over the next hour; hives disappeared, chest opened up - although two days later I still have some tightness and it was quite bad yesterday - and then I went to sleep, since bizarrely I didn't feel panicked only tired.
Anyway ramble over, do we have any people here with experience of this sort of thing? I have no known allergies and have never had a reaction to anything, but the speed and severity seemed like something textbook from House or Casualty! Is this the sort of situation where one would use an epipen? I don't know if it was anaphylaxis since my throat didn't swell and I had no 'sense of impending doom' (a real medical symptom!)
If nothing else, who has some good stories to tell?!
We have an oximeter and it showed my O2 had fallen to high 80s. We happen to have strong antihistamines in the house so I took one and then we waited to see if it got worse and we needed to call 999. I was fairly with it and remember really not wanting to go to A&E the Saturday night after an England game It hovered like that for maybe 5 minutes then gradually but consistently eased over the next hour; hives disappeared, chest opened up - although two days later I still have some tightness and it was quite bad yesterday - and then I went to sleep, since bizarrely I didn't feel panicked only tired.
Anyway ramble over, do we have any people here with experience of this sort of thing? I have no known allergies and have never had a reaction to anything, but the speed and severity seemed like something textbook from House or Casualty! Is this the sort of situation where one would use an epipen? I don't know if it was anaphylaxis since my throat didn't swell and I had no 'sense of impending doom' (a real medical symptom!)
If nothing else, who has some good stories to tell?!
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