Priya N.
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It started with food. Then it was more than food. I had anaphylaxis twice with no allergen anyone could find, and the second time the ER doctor suggested I was hyperventilating. I kept a spreadsheet for two years because I knew nobody would take my word for it. Fourteen years from the first reaction to the letters MCAS on a piece of paper. I was thirty-one when it started and forty-five when someone finally explained the mechanism to me. What I mourn isn’t the years of being sick. It’s the years of being sick and being treated as a liar about it.
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