Anaphylactic shock without typical swelling, rash, allergy symptoms etc?
Just used my EpiPen for the first time, ate a cookie that must’ve had almond extract, immediately started feeling bloated and severe GI distress. This has happened before so I thought I was in for a day of misery &throwing up. But then After 15ish minutes I started getting really dizzy, asked my girlfriend to drive me to ER, on the way there my heart started beating chaotically, I completely lost sensation in my hands and feet, sense of doom , almost blacked out. I stabbed myself with epipen and slowly got better, was mostly stable by the time arrived to hospital
Meanwhile, I had zero symptoms of the typical allergic symptoms like throat swelling, hives, itching, rashes, etc. Just severe GI distress and then the symptoms of low blood pressure/shock. I had no idea it’s possible to go into anaphylactic shock without these symptoms. Unless I was somehow experiencing anxiety and that caused the dizziness, lack of sensation in extremities? Has anyone experienced similar? The doctor wasn’t convinced it was anaphylactic shock since I didn’t have any of the typical symptoms, thought it was anxiety along with the GI reaction, but I’ve had allergic reactions before and none of them escalated liked this. They gave me steroids anyways and my blood pressure slowly rose back up to normal over my stay .
Does this sound like it could still be anaphylactic shock? Could I have died today? The whole experience has me shaken up, I’ve always had the EpiPen just in case, but never thought I’d actually need it