Re: Does this man suffer from a form of mycotoxicosis?

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Whoever this person is, he needs to carry an epi-pen with him at ALL times

from now on......it'll have to be prescribed by a doctor, though. It could

very well save his life, if this happens again.

[] Does this man suffer from a form of mycotoxicosis?

> While I was browsing a health discussion forum in my first language

> (Serbian), I stumbled across an interesting message. The translation

> is below.

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> On January 5th I experienced a penicillin shock, and since then I've

> been having great problems: ringing in ears (each day), vertigo, the

> feeling I can't keep my head straight, and my neck hurts. My blood

> tests are ok, in fact everything is ok apart from that I can't go

> anywhere without my bromazepam. I am 26. Please give me some

> explanation and help on how to get out of this hell. What is, in fact,

> happening to me? And is all this due to that shock? How to solve this

> problem?

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> Then there were numerous posts in which he was encouraged to visit a

> psychiatrist and was told that, as a matter of fact, there was nothing

> wrong with him (?).

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> This is his second post:

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> On that fatal day I had a strong feeling of suffocation and I went to

> a hospital, they did all the possible tests then, and gave me some

> sedative, and I got an infusion. They examined my lungs with

> stethoscope and told me to go to the pulmonary section. The

> pulmologist prescribed me injections (double doses). And then the hell

> started: when they gave me the injection, I had a feeling I was

> falling down, getting stiff and my ears started ringing. I implored

> but I couldn't recognise myself, nor hear what I was talking, my heart

> started beating faster and faster and I was seeing only black in front

> of my eyes. They gave me some anti-injections and that's it - that is

> how much I remember. I woke up and, sorry I'll say this, my pants were

> wet. Somehow they helped me get to my home. The next day they sent me

> to a psychiatrist and he just said that I had been given too large a

> dose of injections. Since that second day till now I am very agitated,

> I have a fear that I will die, I can't go outside so that I don't pass

> out. And that's it. Every morning and evening I take 1/2 of bromazepam

> but that ringing in my ears won't stop. As if I am in some kind of a

> dream from which I can't wake up. That's it. Regards and those who

> experienced the same problem contact me.

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> After that he was advised once more to visit a psychiatrist as soon as

> possible.

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> Now, obviously he isn't suffering from exactly the same problem we do

> here, but if memory serves me well he described anaphylactic shock to

> penicillin, and penicillin is a kind of mycotoxin. He's not getting

> better, so maybe he became sentisized to indoor mold as well? Maybe

> someone on this list knows exactly what happened to him?

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> My hair raises every time I hear advice to visit a shrink when the

> disease in question is clearly physical in nature.

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[Guest guest]

This may have been an 'allergy' to penicillin - which BTW, IS a

'mycotoxin' (perhaps the most USEFUL one)

[Guest guest]

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> Whoever this person is, he needs to carry an epi-pen with him at ALL

times

> from now on......it'll have to be prescribed by a doctor, though.

It could

> very well save his life, if this happens again.

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Thanks , I'll pass this info on. I don't know this person,

he's just a nickname on a discussion board to me. I thought that his

case had something in common with mycotoxicosis, but probably he is

simply very allergic to penicillin.