#fucking allergies

[disagigglebilities]

In new news apparently my body overreacts to cigarette smoke which explains the bronchitis I got at the homeless shelter and pretty much my whole childhood frequent health problems

[forest-hashira]

it's just me & my dad for dinner tonight so we're getting sushi since no one else in the house can/will eat it i'm so excited

[snekthedemonnoodle]

breathing = no

[lady-of-imladris]

I relate 🥺

Allergies just suck so much 😭😭😭

Eating anything that I haven't cooked myself/someone I know well cooked stresses me out so much that sometimes I get panic attacks while eating

[moonlight-alphafemale]

I hate the term "Go touch grass" because I'm super allergic to different types of grass.... Insensitive as hell 😭

[fluidstatick]

I'm so tired of this Food nonsense. I wish I was a tree. One of those old, gnarled, more or less unkillable ones.

So a couple weeks ago I figured out I'm allergic to rosemary, right? and yesterday I was frying some ground turkey when my lips went numb and my tongue started to swell and I was like Oh, right, ground turkey almost always has Rosemary Extract in it. Fuck me. So I threw it away (the half pound in the pan and the three more pounds in the freezer), took my allergy meds, waited ten minutes. Said to myself "when in doubt, fuckin' Broccoli."

So. My throat doesn't feel like it's full of glue and sand anymore? cool. Stick a pound of broccoli in the air fryer to roast.

Five minutes later my eyes are puffy and my nose is running.

I take a piece of half cooked broccoli out of the fryer, sniff it - my throat immediately starts to itch. The next five minutes are a wet sneezy mess - feels like I've snorted a line of pollen. I check the cross reactivity charts for ragweed, mugwort, and chamomile. Broccoli is on two of them.

Y'ALL. Broccoli has been my Fallback Vegetable since I was a little kid. It's one of my Safe Foods. and now I'm ALLERGIC TO IT?

So this morning, I'm grouching through my kitchen, very low on groceries, planning a pot of soup to carry me through the weekend. At least black beans will neville hurt me. At least black beans will never make me get afraid. I boil some dry beans with an onion and a head of garlic. I get out a fresh jar of my favorite brand of vegetable stock concentrate. I remember it has that dubious "natural flavors" in the ingredients list. I open the jar, take a deep sniff.

My throat dries out like a sponge in about fifteen seconds. My vegetable stock definitely has rosemary in it. I swear to fuck, if I weren't so pissed off I'd cry.

I'm frying some carrots and onions in a little vegetable oil to put in my black beans and praying I'm not going to find out I'm allergic to alliums next.

It's not like I already had disordered eating issues. It's not like I'm already watching all these food recalls like a hawk, candling my eggs before I crack them, double washing my produce, making my own damn bread. It's not as if I tried to eat five times yesterday and kept throwing stuff away until all I could do was eat peanut butter off the spoon at 8 pm. (A single 32 oz jar of the only peanut butter that I find edible is $8 at WinCo now, by the way.)

Deregulation of agriculture and labeling practices has already killed so many people, and now I can't trust 75% of the stuff I've been cooking with for years. The stuff that's still trustworthy is so expensive I can't access it. I'm definitely not eating enough. I wake up hungry in the middle of the night now, literally every night, because food is a minefield of allergies vs sensory issues vs budget vs fuckin' listeria.

Why..... why haven't we gone on a general strike yet. Why do we all just sit around and shake our heads in disbelief at how bad things are.

"c'mon man, if you're so uncomfortable, do something about it. Run for office, join an agribusiness council, canvas petitions. Or y'know, just clip coupons and-"

🚫No 👏 spoons 👏 left 👏 🚫

🔪🔪ONLY👏 KNIVES👏🔪🔪

[threecapybarasinatrenchcoat]

SAME

I wish I could rest my head in a pile of kittens.

[catsingbad]

ok great now I have ear pain

[fae-prince]

The accursed monuments to nature’s hubris (trees) have begun to spew forth their toxic fumes (pollen) and so now I must surely die (get all sneezy and gross)

[disagigglebilities]

Discovered that you should not wear your compression socks when you are having an allergic reaction to a big bite because uh well now the bug bite is bruised

[trashedump]

demeter should’ve left persephone’s ass in hell if only so i wouldn’t feel like gouging my eyes out every second

[mysterygrl20]

my body is trying to expel all the bad energy by giving me coughing and sneezing attacks

[lover-of-mine]

“Do not take ibuprofen by mouth or apply it to your skin if you have ever had an allergic reaction or symptoms like wheezing, runny nose or skin reactions after taking aspirin, ibuprofen or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as naproxen.”

4x05 “Buck Begins” -> 6x11 “In Another Life” -> 8x05 “Masks”

Inspired by @stagefoureddiediaz and @bewitchedbewilderedbisexual

[moonlight-alphafemale]

I so desperately wanna go to Japan but I'd starve to death because most of the food they have is like seafood of has eggs and nuts in it...

I'm allergic to seafood, nuts and eggs 😭😭

[gallusrostromegalus]

You know how ginger ale is meh until you're on an airplane and then it's the nectar of the gods? Arizona Iced Tea is the same for me only instead of airplanes it's a major throat problem.

[sergle]

clicked on a fat activism blog bc it was recommended to me and the first thing I see on it is just a "uwu soft tummies..." post. I'm Fuckin Out Of Here