What was THAT !?

[Guest guest]

This AM I had a horrible reaction to something & I’d like some help

figuring it out please.

I woke, took my usual HC (12.5), armour (75 mg), liquid

multi-vit., and a 5 mg spray of DHEA. Fine.

I drank my coffee (1/2 decaf), did some work, then made b’fast.

OK. All went as usual.

With B’fast (2 eggs, cheese, English muffin, OJ) I took the rest

of my supplements: Fish oil cap., magnesium pill (300 mg), Iodoral 25 mg,

Thyrosol 1 tab., vit. C 1 GM, liquid Cal/ mag, Lysine 500 mg, B-Complex and

Zetia 10 mg.

At the end of B’fast I started feeling warm on my face. I went

to the bathroom and by the time I was done my heart was POUNDING and my face

& head felt like someone was holding a blowtorch on them. My face turned

fiery red, then my ears and I could feel the heat and see redness going down

my neck & shoulders. I was getting panicky & called my DH who had me take

benedryl 50 mg (…my usual dose to sleep is 12.5 mg). It just flared up so

suddenly! I doused my face & neck with cold water, which didn’t really help

much. I felt like my face swelled as well as being neon RED. But DH didn’t

see the swelling. My face was hot to the touch and kept warming up the cold

wash cloth I was using. I could breathe OK, so I didn’t call 911 or

anything, but I wanted to! My whole body was fiery hot then & I sat by an

open window to cool off.

I could feel my heart rate go up and still pounding. I was

surprised (but glad) it was only 100. I have no way to take my BP. My Temp

was 97.4. I drank 20 oz of cold water. Then I started to get cold while

being hot (doesn’t make sense) and trying not to panic. I had diarrhea. I

was wracking my brain trying to think of what I had taken that could have

caused this reaction. About 20 minutes into the episode I got the shakes

really bad. I took HC 5 mg. I tried to hold still & rest but it was

difficult to do. In a few minutes the shakes stopped suddenly, but resumed

again worse than before. It wasn’t 10 minutes more and they stopped for

good. Is that unusual? (start…stop…start…stop) After a while my heart rate

settled down to 80 and the shakes stopped. I was exhausted, but had 50 mg

benedryl on board so maybe that was the tiredness.

The whole episode lasted about 11/2 hours and faded away. I

took my usual sea salt afterward & did fine. It was horrible and very scary.

It was all TOO weird. Was it a thyroid dump? It was 2 hours after taking HC

and A. OR….

I’ve been thinking about what I took this AM and I always take

all of the above together with no trouble at all before ….except the

B-Complex. That is new. Was it a reaction to the B-vitamins? There are B

vits in two of the other things I am already taking.

Can you help me figure this out? I don’t want to go through that

again!!

TIA for your help.