Last month a person contacted me for tutoring his two children.I took the demo class of maths and science. The kids were vey weak in their foundations. I asked few questions which a 5th or 6th grader could easily answer but both these kids in 9th grade were blanking out. Like the kids who have heard of molecules but not of atoms. Considering how weak both children were and how far their home was from mine, I quoted them 1000/ bucks for an hour for a single child. ( please note that in market the charge varies from 700/ to 1500/). It means that if they hire me, it will cost them upto 48k per month.
As I expected, The parents refused to hire me. They were looking for someone who can teach both their kids under 20k per month and they have most likely found a tutor. One of my friends told me that I should have negotiated the price and could have quoted them 30k. By not doing that, I have missed a financial opportunity. Now this friend of mine has always called me impractical and it made me rethink the situation.
I have been tutoring for more than a decade now. When I take lectures, I speak continuously most of the time giving myself a sore throat and exhaustion. I spend a lot of extra time on students for which I don't charge a single penny. I have worked in IITs and has fair exposure in research. I am a dedicated tutor and I expect to be paid accordingly. The person who asked for a demo is a senior government official. His wife is also working and most likely run a small business. They live in a very posh area of delhi ( its an area dedicated to the housing for diplomats). The kids study in one of the top most chain of schools. These are the kind of people who go to the expensive holiday destinations, hang out in the ridiculously expensive cafes but when it comes to investing in knowledge and education, they wanna cut corners. I realized this and that's why I never called them back. I have taught kids for free but those who really needed financial help.
Am I seriously impractical in this scenario? If similar situation were to come in future, should I consider negotiating my price? What would you have done?

Last month a person contacted me for tutoring his two children.I took the demo class of maths and science. The kids were vey weak in their foundations. I asked few questions which a 5th or 6th grader could easily answer but both these kids in 9th grade were blanking out. Like the kids who have heard of molecules but not of atoms. Considering how weak the kids were and how far their home was from mine, I quoted them 1000/ bucks for an hour for a single child. It means that if they hire me, it will cost them upto 48k per month.
As I expected, The parents refused to hire me. They were looking for someone who can teach both their kids under 20k per month and they have most likely found a tutor. One of my friends told me that I should have negotiated the price and could have quoted them 30k. By not doing that, I have missed a financial opportunity. Now this friend of mine has always called me impractical and it made me rethink the situation.
I have been tutoring for more than a decade now. When I take lectures, I speak continuously most of the time giving myself a sore throat and exhaustion. I spend a lot of extra time on students for which I don't charge a single penny. I have worked in IITs and has fair exposure in research. I am a dedicated tutor and I expect to be paid accordingly. The person who asked for a demo is a senior government official. His wife is also working and most likely run a small business. They live in a very posh area of delhi. The kids study in the top most chain of schools. These are the kind of people who go to the expensive holiday destinations, hang out in the ridiculously expensive cafes but when it comes to investing in knowledge and education, they wanna cut corners. I realized this and that's why I never called them back. I have taught kids for free but those who really needed my help.
Am I seriously impractical in this scenario? If similar situation were to come in future, should I consider negotiating my price? What would you have done?

So I'm not sure where to post this exactly because my flu test was negative-- but I had whatever other virus from hell is going around the US right now a couple of weeks ago. It started with body aches and chills and a horrible headache-- that lasted a few days, and then congestion joined the party. After a while the body aches and headache went away but the congestion stayed and last week I noticed my tonsils were swollen and covered in white patches and I had a sore throat and swollen lymph nodes. I have been to the doctor and they prescribed me antibiotics to see if that did anything for the tonsils. I haven't had a fever this entire time, but I have had night sweats and I still have them. Has anyone else experienced anything similar? I'm so sick of this

Hey all,
After having a chest CT when I had pneumonia earlier this year it was determined that I had atrophic adrenals. After failing an ACTH stim test I was put on 5mg prednisone and after more labs my doctor determined that something else caused the adrenals to atrophy. I had no history of long term steroid use so a pituitary MRI was ordered. I’m awaiting results. I have frequent changes in body temp, often feeling feverish sometime in the day and my temperature will be low grade (100.2-100.8) and it will resolve after an hour or so. I am fatigued often, mostly midday. Other symptoms come and go mostly accompanied by the fever.
I’m a professional musician and I had asked my doctor whether or not I should updose prednisone on especially significant or stressful performances. She was somewhat apprehensive to suggest it but advised that I could take an additional 2.5mg of prednisone only in extreme cases. I’ve done this twice for major performances but for everyday performing I haven’t felt the need.
Are there any other performers or athletes that need to updose under similar high stress conditions? To be clear, major performances that stress me out are rare. It would probably be a few times per year. I would feel this is more likely to be a stressor than say traveling.
I’m a little unsure how to navigate this especially considering steroid use contributes to this condition.
ETA: I just got my MRI results back which were unremarkable.

Our babysitter called out so I stayed home with LO. As fate would have it, I have had the worst diarrhea and a low grade fever for the last 12 hours….LO slept great. Me? Not so much. I am feeling lethargic and like a bad mom because I know today isn’t going to be the fun today I had envisioned together.
Any tips on getting through the day with an almost 9 month old when you, yourself feel like garbage?
This is one of the scenarios I never considered when we chose to have a child. 😂

I started LDN last night to help with the neuropathy I’ve started to get in my feet (but he’s also hoping it’ll help with my cfs, fibro, migraines, and GI issues), and I’m kind of worried because in everything I’ve read says you start low at like 1mg and then work your way up to 4.5mg….but my neurologist has me on 4.5mg right off the bat. Is that him being careless or is it really ok to start at 4.5mg?
After my first dose last night, I’ve had a low grade headache that feels different from the type of headaches I usually get, very thirsty, and my neuropathy actually got WORSE. It went from its usual light, all over pins and needles…to that PLUS more concentrated feelings of being stabbed in the nerves, which caused my feet to reflexively jump and spasm like crazy, as if being stimulated by electricity. It was pretty awful.
And I can’t even cut the pills in half because they’re capsules 😩
Edit: and now a few hours after posting, I feel truly awful, feeling like I have a flu coming on (I don’t go out anywhere to get the flu, I’m almost entirely housebound) with a sore swollen throat and post nasal drip. WTFFFFFFFF

My fiancé had an emergency appendectomy about 4 weeks ago. The surgery went well, and the appendix did not burst during or before removal. Prior to the surgery, the CT also showed he had an unobstructed kidney stone and an unobstructed gallstone. The surgeon offered to remove the gallbladder too (in case there would be issues later) but he declined, as unnecessary gallbladder removal can cause a lot of complications (I myself have some of those, as does my brother. Surgeon said these complications are about 1 in 3 patients. His gallbladder has never bothered him, so why roll the dice?)
He was really sore after surgery but was doing better each day and on track for recovery. He went back to work after 2 weeks. His job is more physical and requires walking several miles, so post-pain we initially chalked up to all the walking. At about 3.5 weeks, the pain got much worse, and he was in as much pain as he had been after the end of week 1. The pain was on his left lower abdomen/side, and the pain stretched toward his belly button. They had gone in laparoscopically on that side, so figured it was his incisions bothering him.
His incisions all looked good and still do. No redness, drainage, etc. Then he spiked a fever of almost 103. We went to the ER and they saw in his chart that he had had an unobstructed gallstone. The ER team focused on that gallbladder hard and was trying to get him to have it removed before they even got any testing back. They did a blood panel (his WBC count was a little elevated, but nothing insane), an x-ray, a CT, a urine test, and an ultrasound. They lied and told him they did Murphy's Test on him and that his gallbladder had thickening walls and was inflamed. But they never did the Murphy's Test and he has and had no pain in that area. They really scared us, saying he could die etc. In the end, they called another surgeon to look at the scans and they said to cut us loose if he wasn't having pain. They gave him no antibiotics and just told him to follow up with his doctor.
He called the surgeon that had done the surgery and the surgeon said he did not see any wall thickening or inflammation in the scans. He said the gallbladder looked like it had before his surgery. He also said the CT did not show any abscesses or infections. So on top of everything else, we feel like the ER scared us for...What exactly? Money from an unnecessary surgery?
Over the weekend, his pain worsened, and he kept teetering between elevated and low-grade fever. He has been very constipated. His pain also began to stretch lower into his pelvis, and now into his balls. He seems to have some sort of lump on his pelvis - I'm not sure if its a lymph node or what it is.
He went in to see his primary care doctor yesterday who ordered more blood tests and then scheduled an ultra sound for today. His blood tests were pretty normal, except for a 13.1 mg/L high sensitivity CRP. Today, he also now has a rash developing on his arms and legs. We're just really worried and have no idea what is going on. Has anyone else experienced something like this or have any ideas?

PLEASE HELP ME I hope you can be understanding of my problem, I need to tell someone what is happening to me. I hope this is just anxiety and a panick attack but I cant convince myself.
My cat is unvaccinated, i've been postponing vaccinating her against rabies for a while, exactly two weeks ago I let her go out in my yard and she came back with a bee sting on her chin, she has a little bump where the bee stung her. She is very playful and a little agressive at times so she bites and scartches me a lot.
She seems more vocal than usual in the morning, but that may be because we moved into a new appartment.
Anyways, sunday I started feeling wierd like im floating and Im very confused, i started having diarheea and nausea and feeling very axious thinking i got rabies from her. She doesnt foam at the mouth or salivate excessively, she seems fine, eats and drinks normally. But I cant stop feeling like I got rabies from her, I try to convince myself that she sould have gotten ill in those two weeks that have passed if she actually has rabies but my symptoms are only getting worse. I cant sleep well and Im very restless, when I lay down i feel like my body Is weightless, im very confused all day and now I think im getting a fever. Sould I go to the hospital?
I need to mention that a day before this all started, I engaged in drug consumption, I feel very ashamed saying this but I need to know if this is relevant. To be more exact, I was on a mephedrone bender for a day, just before this all started.
I also have a runny nose and a sore throat, maybe from the drugs. But its been almost 72 hours since i stopped, why do I feel like this? I keep convincing myself that i have rabies and i go into full blown panick attacks. Please help me

I have a low grade fever for 2 weeks now. 37.5 celsius Did a blood work, crp is perfect. Everything else was great too But the fever is still present I am a female 22 years old. Had a baby 6 months ago. And I have some mid cycle bleeding but that’s all. Why could I have that fever? My doc doesn’t seem to worry about it

27 female UK - got dysautonomia (really bad heart symptoms) and gastroperisis (bad digestive symptoms) - 2 central nervous system disorders, from REALLY MILD COVID 2 years ago.
I've now been dealing with quite severe COVID for 7 days now. More than just cold symptoms. Arms going numb, visual hallucinations (I've never had these), in and out of fever like nightmare dreams, can't sleep for more than 6 hours, fever was 38.4 on the 6th day but not at the moment, conjunctivitis, headache that hasn't gone the whole time but was really severe day 3/4, teeth have killed for a week like all of them are so painful only co-dydramol is helping, can't stop blowing nose like 2 box of tissues in one day, cough becoming painful. Had worst sore throat, that's fine now though but has turned into painful cough, short of breath at times.
What's concerning me is the non-cold like symptoms, none of which my friend has. I.E conjunctivitis, arms going numb, hallucinations. Plus, the high fever so late into it on day 6. The fact I'm not getting better, wake up day 7 with conjunctivitis and friend has already completely cleared COVID, never got conjunctivitis or severe runny nose/headaches etc.
My friend caught it same time, and at day 5 she was better, no signs of it now - at day 7 I'm just getting worse. She had it much milder than me from the start, but we caught it at the same place the same night, fell ill the same day a few days after, but she likened it to a cold whereas I feel like it's literally attacking most parts of me, going deeper than a usual cold. Her teeth never hurt, she never got numb arms, or anything. I've done a lot more to get better, she was eating fish and chips, drinking alcohol, not taking vitamins, and she's fine now. Ive been eating mostly just fruit and veg, drinking electrolytes with vitamins in, zinc lozenges every 5 hours, taking 3 different vitamins throughout the day, tumeric tea, ginger shots, vaporrub on chest etc (for nose and head). And I'm actually getting WORSE on day 7.

27 female UK - got dysautonomia (really bad heart symptoms) and gastroperisis (really bad digestives symptoms) - 2 central nervous system disorders, from REALLY MILD COVID 2 years ago.
I've been dealing with severe COVID for 7 days now. Arms going numb, visual hallucinations (I've never had these), in and out of fever like nightmare dreams, can't sleep for more than 6 hours, fever was 38.4 on the 6th day but not at the moment, conjunctivitis, headache that hasn't gone the whole time but was really severe day 3/4, teeth have killed for a week like all of them are so painful only co-dydramol is helping, can't stop blowing nose like 2 box of tissues in one day, cough becoming painful. Had worst sore throat, that's fine now though but has turned into painful cough, short of breath at times.
What's concerning me is the non-cold like symptoms, none of which my friend has. I.E conjunctivitis, arms going numb, hallucinations. Plus, the high fever so late into it. The fact I'm not getting better, wake up day 7 with conjunctivitis and she has completely cleared COVID, never got conjunctivitis or severe runny nose/headaches etc.
My friend caught it same time, and at day 5 she was better, no signs of it now - at day 7 I'm just getting worse. She seemed to have it much milder than me from the start, but we caught it at the same place the same night, fell ill the same day a few days after, but she likened it to a cold whereas I feel like it's literally attacking most parts of me (I wish it just felt like a cold, lol.) I've done a lot more to get better, she was eating fish and chips, drinking alcohol, not taking vitamins etc. ive been eating mostly just fruit and veg, drinking electrolytes with vitamins in, zinc lozenges every 5 hours, taking 3 different vitamins throughout the day, tumeric tea, ginger shots, vaporrub on chest etc (for nose and head).

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I mostly just want to hear other people's experiences and not feel so alone in how I'm feeling.
I'm currently in the middle of a horrible flare up. It's my first one, and in two weeks I've been in urgent care and in to see my PCP over my joints. I moved a month ago, and for a solid week about couldn't move. Felt sore, my joints really hurt and are swollen and warm, especially my hands and feet, and I have had a low grade fever on and off with chills.
Urgent care suggested RA just based on symptoms. PCP did blood work and I just saw the results today, and my follow-up appt is in two weeks. My crp and rheum factor were both negative, but I'm high for both the inflammatory tests. I'm aware of the possibility of being seronegative.
I'm just so shook. Other than mild joint pain in my hands for the last year or so, I've never had pain or anything like this before. I assumed I was developing osteoarthritis, as it runs in my family and Ive spent my life doing fine work like chainmail and knitting with my hands. But after one weekend moving stuff to my new place, I'm suddenly down and out for over a month. I thought stuff like this was slow coming, but apparently not and I just want to hear other stories like mine while I navigate a diagnosis and this flare up.

Swollen tongue with cold symptoms
28F, 5’8”, 145lbs. Never smoked, no drinking or drugs.
UCTD (treated as lupus) Selective IGM deficiency. daily medications: plaquenil, Keflex, and adderall.
Hi! I’m having a bit of a panic because my frequent common cold has come with a fun new symptom: swollen, sore tongue.
I catch a cold once a month, maybe every 2 months. And it’s always pretty standard. Sore throat, cough, insanely runny nose, high fever, malaise, headache. Dayquill and 2 days off takes care of me.
I started getting my normal symptoms yesterday morning, and by last night it was full blown. This morning however, I noticed my tongue doesn’t fit in my teeth anymore. Ive trained myself to rest my tongue in my lower jaw because I have an overbite and I don’t want to make it worse. But today my tongue doesn’t fit in either my upper or lower jaw. Also, the sides are very sore, like when you eat too much sour candy. It isn’t causing any difficulty breathing but i literally can’t close my teeth and it’s exacerbated my sore, dry throat.
I’ve been taking dayquill and added in naproxen when the fever stopped declining (highest has been 103.1 and won’t go lower than 101) I took a Zyrtec when it was suggested by the minute clinic that the tongue thing could be an unrelated allergy; but it hasn’t gotten any better.
I tested negative for strep, flu, and Covid.
I had an uncomplicated wisdom tooth removal 4 days ago; and have had no pain, swelling, bleeding, or sign of infection since. But I wanted to add in case that’s relevant.

So I keep getting sick with the same symptoms. Not super often, first episode was almost two years ago, second was 6 months after that, this time it was 10 months later.
I(M39) have a weird spiking fever that won’t stop for about 8 days, fatigue, frontal headache, no appetite, and SEVERE night sweats. First two times they told me it was most likely Covid and that I will be fine, even though I tested twice each time and they all came back negative.
No other symptoms. Fever normally is low grade but occasionally spikes up around 104. Ever since I was a kid fevers affect me pretty badly, even low grade fevers will wipe me out. That’s the main reason I’m asking… I hate fevers.
Last time I had an episode, Doc ran bloodwork and all came back clean. Now I don’t really know what to do. I hate hospitals and I hate doctors telling me that I don’t have anything wrong when clearly this isn’t normal right? Or am I just crazy and I’m an odd duck with random fevers that don’t go away?

I think the title basically covers it. I’m about 48 hours in to a bout of fever and sore throat with white spots on my tonsils. My fever isn’t terribly high (fluctuates between 98.9 and 100.7), but it’s very rare for me to have a fever. I went to an urgent care and was swabbed for strep, influenza, and covid, all of which came back negative. However, the PA said he probably wanted to start me on antibiotics due to my symptoms and the fact that it was very early in my infection, so I could possibly have falsely tested negative for strep. He said alternatively I could tough it out and wait for the throat culture results.
I do not want to take antibiotics unnecessarily, so I asked him to go ahead and order the antibiotics (amoxicillin/clavulanate 875/125mg 2x/day for 10 days), but I might hold off on taking them until I get the throat culture results, unless I begin to feel worse.
I don’t feel any worse and my fever seems to be holding at the same moderate temperature range (most recently it was 98.8F, but just a couple hours ago was 100.4), however, looking my throat, the white spots appear to have dramatically multiplied and spread. Previously it looked like there was maybe 3 white spots per tonsil, now it appears to be more like 7-10 spots per tonsil, and on the left side, the spots appear to be spreading down into my throat, out of sight.
The appearance of these spots multiplying and spreading nearly frightened me into taking the amox/clav, but I do not want to take unnecessary antibiotics for what has thus far tested negative for strep and may well be a viral infection. Also, I would describe my throat pain as moderate, even mild at times, and apparently strep throat pain is like swallowing glass, so this is giving me pause as well.
Do you think I should begin taking the amox/clav now, wait possibly another 4 days for the throat culture, or go back to urgent care for another rapid strep swab tomorrow? Perhaps I’m being a bit overly cautious about not taking the antibiotics and I should just go ahead and take them even if it turns out they were unnecessary? I haven’t taken antibiotics of any kind in 15 years.

I guess I (32F) can’t even handle a single glass of wine anymore. I got long covid back in 2021/2022 and suffered from ongoing fevers, the worst allergies I’ve ever had, and a sore throat that didn’t go away for three months. I’ve been fighting chronic fatigue, skin inflammations, more frequent illnesses, and joint pain since I was infected with Covid. I had to quit my career, as I couldn’t handle the physical exertion my job required of me on a daily basis, and now only pursue random jobs that allow me to work from home. I also appear to have aged rather quickly, but perhaps that’s just me hitting my wall.
I started noticing I wasn’t able to drink like I used to about six months ago, almost three years post Covid. I thought “oh, I’m just getting old” until I went out for lunch a few days ago and enjoyed ONE glass of wine along with a main course and appetizers, THREE glasses of water, AND 16 oz of lemonade. I get home two hours later feeling super tired, my heart racing. I passed out for a full hour before waking up feeling like I had a mild hangover, and very dehydrated.
This isn’t new to me, as I have suffered from reactions like this before (post Covid infection) but after maybe two or three glasses of wine. But now I can’t even have one?? Seems like this reaction is becoming more severe but I have no clue why. I thought I would get better with time, not worse. What can I do? I read some older posts that taking an antihistamine helps but am I expected to do this for the rest of my life? Is there anyone out there who has improved naturally? :(

I don’t know if I have GERD. Never had significant issues until recently. I’m 57F. I’ve had strange severe chest pain, radiating up my neck and into my jaw. I’m very healthy and the first time it happened, it was immediately after laying down to go to sleep. I figured it was a weird GERD thing and not a heart attack. The pain was severe, I couldn’t sleep, or even lay down. It lasted 12 hours. I followed up with my doc, and had an EKG, chest x-ray, and bloodwork. The only thing out of limits was a very high CRP (46). I went on with life. About a week later it happened again, only this time it was gradual, and I had other symptoms including low grade fever, fatigue, and nausea. This one lasted 24 hours. Severe pain. My doc said I should go to the ER. They checked everything related to the heart, and it wasn’t that. The ER doc thought it might be costochondritis. My regular doc thought it was my esophagus seizing. He prescribed opremizole. I didn’t want to take it, as I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease last summer (IBD - inflammatory bowel disease) and PPIs are bad for what I have. So then I had the third event. Again it was gradual and lasting more than 24 hours. They had given me a few oxycodone from the ER - the pain was so bad this did NOTHING to help. I started the opremizole the next day. It’s been about 6 weeks and it hasn’t happened again. When I google esophagus spasms, it doesn’t compare very well with my symptoms. I’ve also got severe fatigue (my IBD is in remission) and my doc is going to have me do bloodwork. When this was happening, sometimes I would just get pain at my throat and lower jaw. I did have some more minor symptoms recently, but I was at an extravagant party and I drank a lot of champagne and ate spicy food. Another reason I think it points to esophagus and not costochondritis. Curious if others have esophageal spasms and what works for you. Also how do yours come about? Other than my first event, there was nothing I did to bring it on. I also want to stop the opremizole bc of my IBD, but don’t want this to happen again, the pain was that bad and LONG. Thank you for listening.

I tested negative again after 9 moths with oraquick.
Symptoms getting worse.
Night sweats Diarrhea and vomit Tonsils infection Canker sores White tongue Fatigue Vaginal itch Chest rashes/postules Fever Chills

My 3 year son has been sick for going on 2 weeks now. First it was a fever and congestion with yucky cough. Took him to pediatrician.....tested negative for Covid and flu and visual exam didn't show signs of strep so....just a virus. He was home the rest of the week battling low grade fevers and then it finally broke. Went back to school the following week and made it to Thursday when his fever suddenly returns and I had to pick him up. That was last week so back to the doctor we go and this time he tests positive for strep. We're given Cefdinir and start it that day. He seemed to improve right away and we had a nice weekend with no fever, some congestion in his cough but not as much and no other issues.
We get to today and I get a text about an hour into the morning that he's thrown up and has a low grade fever. Ended up pulling him and went home where he threw up a few more times. It looked mostly like mucus. He did manage to keep food down in the afternoon as well as water which is a relief but I'm terrified he'll start throwing up again in the middle of the night because I don't know what the fuck is going on. I called pediatrician's office again today but didn't get a call back since they were down a couple of nurses. If I don't hear from them by tomorrow morning, he's going to urgent care.
I've mostly held it together today but now I want to bawl my eyes out because I don't know why my poor baby can't get over what this is and I'm scared something worse is going on and I don't know what else to do besides what I'm alright doing to take care of him. Add to that this is the last week of school and my 5 year old has his Pre-K graduation on Wednesday, EOY party on Thursday and then school is done that day. Plus I'm a school SPED employee trying to close out my year with all my to-do tasks and I am just worn down with worry and guilt. Would gladly take encouraging words/vibes.

Hello all,
I’ll try to keep this as short as possible.
I have POTS and hEDS as well. I began with POTS in March 2020 after a couple month long sinus infection. I’m currently working with a really good POTS doctor recommended by Dysautonomia International as my previous POTS doctor was not helpful. He believes I have MCAS as well, but I was curious to get those opinions of who do have it. Here are my symptoms:

• I have constant burning in my chest, chest tightness, and sore throat. On and off symptoms include throat tightness, itching, mucus in throat, and flushed face and feeling hot. For years my doctors thought this was GERD or reflux, but after years of PPIs and an endoscopy with BRAVO it revealed no acid reflux. My doctors also thought I had hypersensitive nerves in my stomach. I’ve taken both lexapro and amitriptyline which are suppose to help but don’t. I’ve also had an abdominal ultrasound to check for MALS which came back clear.
  
• Most foods make all the previously listed symptoms much worse. I’m down to only 11 foods and even those cause issues everyday. I have taken food allergy and sensitives tests which show nothing.
  
• Some foods only sometimes cause issues, and other times are fine. A couple examples… I have eaten watermelon before and been fine but sometimes eating it it would make my face flushed. Gluten is similar: Sometimes fine, other times it makes my lips tingle and swell (I am not celiac). Hundreds of foods give me this reaction.
  
• Medications can cause weird reactions. I recently took B2 vitamins for three days which have sent my body into a huge flare. Even 6 weeks later I am severely constipated and my chest burns worse.
  
• I have absorption problems. PPIs made this worse but i became so anemic I had to get iron infusions.
  
• H2 blockers did not help and made some of the burning worse. I thought maybe all these symptoms were from low stomach acid. I tried taking HCL for two days which made me gassy and have me intestinal pain.
  
• I don’t get any rashes or anaphylaxis. I am very sensitive to makeup though and I have eczema.
  

I’m curious if those here with MCAS have similar symptoms? I guess the only thing that makes me wonder if I do have it is I never have rashes or anaphylaxis. I did think it was a histamine issue for awhile but many foods that people have no issues with I seem to have problems with (mostly oils).
Any advice or comments would be much appreciated
Thank you!