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2025-8-30 Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation & MCAS Environmental Illness

2025 September & October: So tired of this same MCAS nightmare

Symptom: Enviro MCAS Hypothesis – Mold

2025-8-22 Almost a week out of the house stopped me from getting worse, but healing is SO SLOW

Symptom: Arthralgia and Arthritis (and jokes!)

2025_8_19 The symptoms are coming from inside the house. (& Long Covid Prevention Tips!)

2025_8_18 I booked a hotel to try to identify/isolate variables. As soon as I walked in the hotel room, I felt my head swell.

2025_8_14 I feel better out of the house, which is incongruous with ME/CFS Long Covid.

Symptom: MCAS Brain Fog

2025-8-17 The water isn’t the whole picture… but what is?

2025-8-9 I almost went in to anaphylaxis from drinking water.

2025-8-9 Is this MCAS anaphylaxis, anxiety, or anaphylaxis from anxiety?

2025-7-30 I woke up to the migraine spreading. What is it and how do I stop it?!

Symptom: MCAS Bucket Explosion

2025_5_6 Eternal Suffering of the Mast Cell

Symptom: Chemo-induced nausea & vomiting.

2025-2-12 Starting imatinib for resistant mast cell symptoms.

2025-1-19 MCAS trigger: allium smell

2025_1_20 environmental allergies triggered (MCAS)

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