The most probable suspect
Oct. 24th, 2010 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellestraI've just learned I'm allergic to gentamicin the hard way. It was in the eyedrops I got for my conjunctivitis. It helped with the pink eye problem but my asthma symptoms got so bad I'm barley able to do anything without feeling like I'm about to faint.
You'd think I should notice before it got so bad but it's not like on movies. I don't get anaphylactic shock just by being close to an allergen. I just get weeker and more tired, can't sellep but cannot wake up either and my muscles start to hurt and it can be generally mistaken for getting sick. And since I was feeling sick already - with my eyes itching, burning and watering, I didn't notice. And then I went and tried to ride a bike uphill and I was barely able to come back. I'm trying to get back to normal ever since.
It seems that from now on this will join aspirin on no use list.
At least my eyes are OK now.
You'd think I should notice before it got so bad but it's not like on movies. I don't get anaphylactic shock just by being close to an allergen. I just get weeker and more tired, can't sellep but cannot wake up either and my muscles start to hurt and it can be generally mistaken for getting sick. And since I was feeling sick already - with my eyes itching, burning and watering, I didn't notice. And then I went and tried to ride a bike uphill and I was barely able to come back. I'm trying to get back to normal ever since.
It seems that from now on this will join aspirin on no use list.
At least my eyes are OK now.
