u/yesterdaysnoodles

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Courtney mentioned she had celiac disease in one scene and I can’t stop thinking about it. My son has it and it’s crucial to follow a gluten free diet, and cross contamination even in the tiniest amounts can cause a systemic reaction. If untreated (the only treatment is 100% gluten free diet) celiac disease can cause issues like malnutrition, vitamin deficiencies, anemia, serious mental health issues, anxiety, OCD, neurological symptoms like gluten ataxia (which can present like being drunk, no inhibition, off the wall comments) cancer, and increases the likelihood of additional autoimmune diseases etc.

With her obviously wacky behavior, put way too nicely, I’m wondering if she’s not being careful enough with the diet and it’s causing her mental health symptoms to exacerbate.

With all the scenes of them eating/drinking, there was that one time that mentions it and not even to Nick who she’s going to cohabit with?! With celiac, eating out at any restaurant that’s not gluten free poses risk of cross contamination (I trust 1 restaurant near us because it’s 100% gluten free). I’m a regular in the celiac thread, and many have mentioned been glutened from kissing a partner who ate gluten HOURS before hand. My whole house is gluten free for my son because cross contamination is so serious. If you are dating someone with celiac, it usually requires a lengthy discussion about kitchen rules/requirements to accommodate their medically necessary diet and not poison them. I’m just perplexed at how she didn’t discuss this in depth with Nick when talking about shared living space and intimacy (maybe she did and it wasn’t included in editing).

I clocked her comment immediately and keep thinking about it when watching subsequent episodes because I KNOW how my son acts when he’s glutened and I genuinely don’t think most people understand the severity of how it can impact mental health. Some experience obvious symptoms like vomiting, some are “silent celiacs” who don’t know they’ve been glutened, but others can be psychologically impacted with 0 gut symptoms. It’s usually a priority discussion in ANY new relationship/even friendship because there are so many limitations around food and food is the MOST social thing. Maybe Seattle has more trustworthy restaurants than where we live so it’s not as much of a thing…Portland does for sure.

Anyway. All that to say celiac is hard as fuck to navigate when the world is one big gluten crumb, and I hope she’s not accidentally glutening herself.

TLDR: So I’m curious - what triggers your panic attacks? Do you have allergies or take antihistamines? Did Covid (or any viral illness) cause you sudden onset panic attacks; or make your existing panic attacks worse or more frequent? Just trying to problem solve!

Had one of these episodes tonight and decided to google it, again and saw someone’s comment mentioning tingling tongues during a panic attack. The tongue tingling - I had the same symptoms years ago after I got Covid in Dec 2022 and had sudden onset of severe panic attacks and neuropathy symptoms (tingling tongue, peripheral neuropathy in toes, physical panic attacks that caused mental distress, adrenaline dumps, etc). I fell down the long covid sub rabbit hole around then and saw antihistamines were being discussed for long Covid and I started taking Zyrtec. Daily 10-30mgs (approved by dr) and it seriously helped with symptoms. Suspected I could have MCAS / histamine intolerance / histamine overload ‘psychosis’ symptoms that caused the panic attacks. Today I forgot to take my Zyrtec Pepcid combo as usual and randomly had patchy tingly lips and throat (like ‘do I need an EpiPen kind of thick and tingly’), horrible dry mouth, followed by intense feelings of panic, wanting to vomit and shit at the same time. Took both, and tried some vasovagal eye exercise I learned 3 years ago and finally came out of it.

Anyway. Just curious because I never had any panic attacks prior to Covid (and I went through some crazy trauma in my younger years, which never triggered them). I was terrified I was dying when they started, and I took myself to the ER several times. The doctors essentially laughed at me bc my tests were “normal enough”. The symptoms are always physical for me first and usually out of nowhere. (Tonight I ate rice with garbanzo beans and avocado(high histamine), 15 mins later I start feeling absolutely awful physically). My son was also recently sporting a fever so I’m curious if my not taking my Zyrtec/pepcid antihistamine combo could’ve caused them to immediately re offer… or if it’s a virus brewing in my immune system. Or both. Help me connect the dots!!! 🥺