Dude Unknowingly Exacerbates Allergic Reaction, Ends Up In The ER

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Sep 4, 2021 1:00 PM EDT

Oh boy, it's a troubling TIFU like the one we have here that can serve as a great example that it's always crucial to take yourself to the hospital if you find yourself wrestling with an ongoing, uncomfortable physical ailment. Fortunately, it sounds like everything worked out for this dude. Doesn't mean that they weren't spared a whole lot of discomfort before that moment though. 

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    Font - TIFU by being poor, ignoring symptoms for 25 years, and attempting to eat curry. L Obligatory happened just before Covid hit. In the final months of my Master's program, when I could almost taste the sweetness that is employer sponsored healthcare, I have a full day planned over the weekend, after wrapping up some big assignments. My wife and I offered to have some new people over for dinner that had been volunteering in the community. We thought it would be a nice thank you for their wor
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  • 02
    Font - (Scene 1- A Mountain) I decided to treat myself to a full day of snowboarding at a local mountain. I haven't been able to go much in the last few years and I got an invite from a classmate who was willing to drive. I have all my gear still, some money left over from Christmas, and time, which had been in short stock - what could go wrong? And if you think you know at this point, you are wrong! Snowboarding was amazing - good snow, good friends, no injuries - but a bit strenuous for my out
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  • 03
    Font - After a nice hot shower back home, I set to work making dinner - Japanese Curry with steak. I'm quite proud of my recipe and am looking forward to this hearty dish and maybe a compliment or two from our guests. Everything comes together, it's looking great, and with the few extra minutes I have I decide to fry up some over easy eggs just to top it off. At this point I'm feeling confident enough to present this to Gordon Ramsey. I should also mention l've experienced this thing since child
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  • 04
    Font - We start dinner, it is delicious. The flavors are magical and the steak is tender. Just as the compliments start rolling in and l'm enjoying a few bites myself, I feel this painful pressure in my chest. To be specific, low in my esophogus, just below the bottom of the sternum. I've felt this before, usually less painful, so I go for a drink of water to push things down. But that doesn't happen, just more pain and more pressure. I excuse myself to the bathroom as to not bother our guests w
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  • 05
    Font - I can still breath just fine and speak so l'm not panicking quite yet so I get to thinking. If the steak won't go down, maybe it will come back up? 5 minutes of fingers down my throat and I only manage to get a bit of the water back up. Let's try pushing it down again. I switch between the two for the next 40 minutes while a room away everyone else eating. That is if the awful sounds coming from the bathroom haven't sickened them yet. I have no luck with this strategy so I go back out and
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    Font - (Scene 3 - A Bench) Come to find out it wasn't my decision to make since I had a very concerned wife. Upon arrival at th ER I ask if I can just talk with someone to see if I actually need attention cause I really don't have money for medical bills. She points at a line next to the desk and says "it costs $325 to cross that line and it goes up from there once you start talking to people". Not seeing any other option I oblige and am given a very expensive bracelet in exchange for an open ta
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  • 07
    Font - to make me nauseous and loosen things up. I'm handed a doggy bag and doc leaves. I put every bit of mental energy into wanting to throw up and the best I manage is the most pathetic of burps. Doc returns, sees the empty doggy bag and schedules me an EGD and another two hour wait. I decide l'm going to try drinking water one last time, cause I don't know what an EGD is, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have bothered shortening it if it wasn't stupid expensive. What follows is the most dis
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  • 08
    Font - Turns out I have had an allergy to something (still unknown) since childhood and it exclusively manifests in the lower third of my esiphogus. Relatively newer discovery in medicine, eosiniphilic esophogitis. Turns out some simple meds helped pretty rapidly and I've been mostly symptom free for over a year. Don't put things off friends! Listen to your bodies and get things checked out. TI;dr: Exacerbated an ongoing allergic reaction by snowboarding, ate curry with steak in it that didn't g
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