Realizations, Mountains and Homes Division

 



We went to this place last week for four days. A pause relaxation vacation before plunging into the madness that is the USA right now. Right now I have things I must do in Louisiana. We came here to breathe the cooler and wetter air and soak in the volcano springs and we did. Started having a horrible histamine dump when we got there, not sure why but other folks and colognes were everywhere so picka trigger. I got right in the pool they keep in the sixties and it helped so much. I stayed so long in the cold pool that Ticos were asking me if I thought it was cold. No, I replied, it feels lovely and cool.

Several days spent soaking in the hot and cold waters. It seems to help me feel better, but this time by the end I was almost sick to my stomach and had to go right to bed to sleep it off. Ate zero chocolate at the Chocolate Fusion at all this trip. Just didn't feel like it for a change.

Been talking to a doctor that treats mastocytosis in another country and he gave me a few things I can try to turn down the temperature of the mast cells. One thing is going back on estrogen. This all started after menopause, so I am open to trying. He did say cold plunging might be the best way to survive the histamine release hot flashes I'm having. He had some ideas about supplements I've not tried. 

Once I got home I restarted trying to taper off the H1 that seems to be the only one that works for me but carries a risk of dementia. I got out the ones I was trying to transition to this Fall/Winter/Spring. I'd not taken them for six or eight weeks because the second Sahara Dust started to be a problem here I went right back on the only one that works. Tapering again. 

Other times I've tapered off and tried something different prescribed by my doctor I have had hell. One made me hallucinate, another offered no relief. I've gone through a pile of them with side effects A to Z. This one, an old throwback that I was trying. Guess what I discovered the damn day I restarted it? It made my blood pressure drop down in my shoes, roughly  80/50 and I got so light headed I had to lay down. That is an allergic/anaphylaxis reaction. Apparently cutting back seriously on my caffeine did lower my blood pressure, but that drug dropped it into crazy ranges. 

Guess I'll just wait to see what the newest class of drugs does to me before I get off my old standby. Is it worse to be dreadfully sick and unable to breathe well, or to suffer my mind going when I'm older? I'm not sure.   

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