Help me get over something
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Thread Topic: Help me get over something
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What's wrong?
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Seriously though. I’ve got a major allergy to peanuts and thought 13 years of being on planet Earth, I’ve eaten them twice. The first time was back in 3rd grade at snack/recess time. My friend gave me a peanut butter filled pretzel, and once I ate it she told me it had peanuts in it. I freaked out, but a second later she told me that there weren’t peanuts, she lied.
Throughout the day my face swelled up, and I had to go and get a tissue every few seconds. Eventually, I asked my teacher if I could go to the nurse. I could barely see anything so someone had to walk me over. The nurse put the epi-pen into my leg and I ended up fine, after a few hours in the hospital.
The second time was the scariest, I felt like I was going to die. It was summer and I had one of the yogurts with stuff in it. I didn’t realize it had peanuts in it and I ate one out of curiosity. Well, that was a stupid move on my part. When I realized it was a peanut that I had eaten I flipped out. I started to become itchy and breathing got really hard for me. I used my Epi-pen after calling my dad at work. He called the ambulance to come an stake me to the hospital.
Again, I was fine. But it all lead to a paranoia towards any foods that had anything “extra” in them. I’m always checking my breathing just to make sure I’m still okay, but sometimes when my breathing is a slight bit different than normal, I start to get super scared.
I literally need help overcoming it. And this is probably a late post. -
It was such a traumatic and I’m always thinking, “What if next time the Epi-Pen doesn’t work, what if no one can help me?” Or, “What if my breathing gets off in the middle of the night, and I don’t notice?”
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I used to have peanut allergies.
Maybe it's a brain thing? You hear there's peanuts and you completely freak out?
What does your allergist say about it? -
My allergist tells my parents those things. But it was probably the scariest thing that has ever happened to me.
If I hear about peanuts I’m honestly fine, but anything that changes about the way I breathe will set me off. -
So your parents were told and you weren't? You should look into that if that's the case.
Breathing has nothing to do with peanut allergies if there's no peanuts around. I know that some people have such severe allergies that they can't even go into a grocery store with peanuts in it. But if there's no peanuts around, then it has to be from something else. -
That’s what I realize, but part of my brain is really afraid of it. I keep on telling my parents to get rid of any peanut products, and they keep on saying they will. But they don’t. And sometimes we even have meals with peanuts in them, it’s very discomforting.
But not many people take it seriously, they say that I’m just dramatic and that I should just get over the fear of it. -
Our rule when I had allergies was that anything with peanuts had to be eaten outside. But I had a minor peanut allergies.
No one actually took the fact that I had allergies seriously until I was four when I had some cake that had peanut stuff in it. They told my mom that she was freaking out, but when she said that I might die, that shut them right up. We had to rush home and get some medicine. -
That sounds really scary, I hate that feeling that I might die.
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Just ask if there's any peanuts in it. And if it says made in the same factory, don't have it.
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That’s exactly what I do, but it limits me a lot. Still, I won’t eat it. I think it’s just me being paranoid.
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You not eating it if it's made in the same factory is good, because that means it might've also been made on the same machinery as the peanut stuff.
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Yeah, but it means that I can’t eat some of my favorite brands.
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Life is more important than what you can or cannot eat.
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