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Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 84
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 84
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Thank you so much for your advice, I really appreciate everyone's imput and value what you've all said.
I attended my GP last night about the symptoms and took a list so I didn't forget anything, and because I can't really make myslef understood, with the breathing and speech issues.
They agreee it is an allergic reaction but say it is very difficult to determine from what.
When they inflated the blood pressure monitor cuff on my arm, it started to jerk uncontrollably. This casued me to collapse and fall off my chair. My throat swelled, I went bright red in the face, and for about thirty seconds I couldn't breathe at all. When I was able to breathe again, I was very out of breath. It took some time for me to be able to sit up as everything was so weak I couldn't support my body. I couln't hold my head up and I wasn't able to control the pitch of my voice, or articulate any words, arms and legs were completely useless.
After giving me some time to recover they tried the bp monitor again. The same thing happened. My arm started to jerk, pushing things off the GPs desk, hitting my GP, finally finishing in a massive whole body jerk that threw me off my chair.
This has never happened to me and I find it extremely distessing.
The GP was unable to provide any relief for my symptoms, as I am allergic to antihistamine (it makes my muscle weakness much worse) and we fear steroid treatment or similar my potentially cause a similar reaction, so not worth the risk.
They also didn't feel that sending me to hospital was a good idea, since it was felt I would probably be sent home again.
So I am home, and not feeling at all myself still, but will just have to sit it out until Monday.
Thank you for being here.
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