Even "mild" food allergies are horrible....

[SleeveToBypass2023 2,637]

Ok...so...when you have a food allergy, even a "mild" one, take it seriously. I'm allergic to peanuts and shellfish. With shellfish, it's literally life and death. I can't even be in the room when it's being cooked because the Proteins in the air set me off. It's really that bad. I go into anaphylactic shock and I was told if it happens 1 or 2 more times, I could very likely die. So...no shellfish, which breaks my heart because me an crab legs...omg. Love affair for the ages.

But peanuts.....that's not bad like shellfish. My mistake was comparing it to the shellfish. I was told my shellfish allergy is the worst case my doctor has ever seen. So comparing anything to it is not smart. But that's what my stupid a$$ did. I forgot that every time I eat something I'm allergic to the reaction gets worse. Well, I'll never EVER forget it now.

I ate 2 Kind bars. I bought them because there was no mention of peanuts (ordered them from the Starbucks app). Only mentioned almonds. YUMMY!!! We love almonds. WooHoo!!! Hubby goes to get my Kind bars and my drink and comes back and tells me there's peanuts in them. I think "well, there's not a huge amount because there's more than 1 kind of nut, and my reaction has always been fairly mild, so I should be ok" (tingles in my lips and tongue, slightly nauseous and mildly light headed, but over in 15 or 20 minutes) so I figured I could eat them and deal with the reaction for maybe 30 minutes or so and then be on my way. WRONG!!!!! To be fair, hubby said I shouldn't eat them but I did anyway.

Within 10 minutes of eating them, my usual symptoms set in. Ok, I was ready for that. Within another 10 minutes, the nausea got worse, I got super shaky, and the light headedness increased. Sucks, but still not the end of the world. 10 minutes later, the absolute sharp, stabbing pain in my stomach started. It hurt so bad I couldn't catch my breath and I couldn't stand up straight. It increasingly got worse and worse. I couldn't sit, stand, or lay comfortably at all. It took 30 minutes for it to get this bad. I dealt with it for an hour, then the throwing up started. And throwing up. And throwing up. OMG... Once I was done and brushed my teeth, I went and laid down and fell asleep until now (3:30am). I slept for about 6 hours (not peacefully, but still slept).

I feel a lot better except I'm weak, tired, and a little nauseous still. Hoping to go back to sleep soon. But let this be a reminder that even MILD food allergies can escalate out of nowhere and become major ones. Anything peanut related is like the devil as far as I'm concerned. Now I know I have a major peanut allergy and will NEVER even think about testing it out again. Hoping to feel better soon because OMG this is absolute bull$%#t!!!.

[summerseeker 2,166]

Just a thought, This could also be dumping syndrome. So much sugar in these bars

[SleeveToBypass2023 2,637]

3 hours ago, summerseeker said:

Just a thought, This could also be dumping syndrome. So much sugar in these bars

I thought about that. Might be a combination of both. But I definitely had a reaction to the peanuts. The first 20 minutes was definitely that. I'm not sensitive to sugar at all, but carbs.....wow. I didn't even look at the carbs in those bars, but there's a lot. I think, even if I had a combination of dumping and an allergic reaction, it's enough that I'm staying away from peanuts completely and paying closer attention to carbs. Normally I'm super diligent about it, but for some reason I just didn't look at it. Blah.

[ms.sss 15,662]

2 hours ago, SleeveToBypass2023 said:

I'm not sensitive to sugar at all, but carbs.....wow.

hmmm...my understanding is that sugar is actually a carbohydrate? (simple carb, but still...)

[Lilia_90 487]

17 hours ago, ms.sss said:

hmmm...my understanding is that sugar is actually a carbohydrate? (simple carb, but still...)

Second that!

[SleeveToBypass2023 2,637]

No idea. But I had about 6 of the small Laffy Taffy's today and was just fine. So I honestly don't know. But I'm gonna just keep avoiding peanuts and Kind bars LOL Better safe than sorry, as far as I'm concerned.