Hi folks, I've missed you! I feel like I need to spend a few minutes here to try and process the events of today.
It went something like this:
7:45 am - get on subway to go downtown
8:50 am - arrive at school, rush to my locker to drop off a bag that I didn't want to carry around
9:00 am - class begins
~ 10:45 - 20 minute break, I ate 2 slices of apple, about 5 grapes, 2 rice crackers, and about 3 pinches of homemade trail mix containing sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, chocolate chips, dried cranberries and dried blueberries. The seeds, cranberries and chocolate chips were labelled as peanut-free and the blueberries were well labelled with warnings for other items, but not peanut or tree nuts. I have eaten from the same batch several time prior without incident.
~ 11:00-11:20 - feeling flushed, hot, itchy, ears are burning and slightly swollen. Red blotches on my cheeks and under my chin (but not typical raised hives or welts).
~ 11:30 - starting to feel panic and cannot organize my thoughts. Class ended, I asked my teacher where I could go for benadryl in the school. He suggest the first aid office.
~ 11:35 - the first aid office does not keep benadryl on hand. She suggested I try the convenience store, which did have some for sale.
11:40 - return to first aid office, took 50 mg benadryl and was told to sit for a while for observation.
11:50 - throat feels tight but oxygen % very good, blood pressure low-normal. feeling light headed and slightly disoriented.
12:05 - use ventolin 3x. oxygen % still good, itching almost disappeared. throat and chest feel very tight. very anxious at this point.
12:20 - injected epinephrine and paramedics were called.
12:50 - transported to hospital via ambulance. started vomiting and having liquid diarrhea, chest pain/tightness and throat swelling (mild?)
I was given fluids, antihistamines and prednisone and observed for almost 6 hours. Blood pressure was 100/52, but oxygen % stayed over 90 the entire time. I finally got home about 30 min ago, just before 9 pm.
I feel like I have been through the washing machine but definitely feeling much better now.
I already have been diagnosed with anxiety disorders and 'disordered eating patterns'. At this moment I do not wish to eat anything ever again. I have no clue exactly how this happened or what I reacted to. The only thing I can think of is that I forgot to wash my hands and then touched my food as I ate it.
I need a little talking down right now before I end up in a perpetual state of panic (I'm almost there as it is). I am terrified that it will rebound later like it did the last time I used my auto-injector. Thanks for listening.