Anxiety after anaphylaxis
About two weeks ago, I had an anaphylaxis episode immediately following my Ozempic injection. A visit to the ER took care of it but it did take about a week for my system to settle back down to baseline. I'm a little disappointed because Ozempic seemed to be helping my MCAS overall in the 4 months that I had been on it but obviously I won't be using that again. That was my second anaphylaxis episode in my life, first in 20+ years.
I am now over due for my Xolair injection. I have been taking Xolair for about a year now. My allergist has said it is fine to go ahead and give myself the injection, with a few extra precautions. However, I've been putting it off because I just can't bring myself to do the injection after having a reaction to the last injection I gave myself (even though that was to a different drug).
I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking for here...just wanted to express this to other people who get it. Everyone else I've talked to has essentially said, "it's a totally different drug, why worry" or "you've never had a reaction to this drug before, what's the problem?"