Hi everyone,
I'm really scared right now. Yesterday after dinner, I started feeling very itchy and as if I had a hard time breathing. I don't have any allergies that I am aware of, but I panicked that I may have had a reaction and I thought I was going to die. I took some Benadryl (or the generic version of it) and it made me really drowzy. I fell asleep at 10pm! It felt like I was tossing and turning throughout the night though and I don't feel too rested right now. Anyway, I woke up about an hour ago with the strangest feeling. The second I woke up, I thought I smelled something really bad (I was still half asleep so I could have been semi-dreaming). It smelt like v*. I immediately freaked out and started thinking, "did I v* in my sleep and not remember?", "did someone around me v*?", and I was trying to figure out where it was coming from. As time went on, the smell kinda went away and I was unable to find anything that would cause it. This was extremely triggering for me as hearing the word v* sends me into panic, my fear is pretty severe, so you could only imagine how I felt this morning. So, after I thought I smelled it, I panicked. I started to feel increasingly n* and my body started sweating and shivering at the same time. I had a strange feeling in my throat and a heavy feeling in my chest. I also felt it was hard to breathe. I think that's the closest I've ever felt to v*. I immediately grabbed a zofran (strong antiemetic for those who don't know), which I keep beside me every night... just incase. I took it right away and now an hour later, I'm feeling a lot better. However, my stomach has been making some pretty strange noises which makes me fear a sv. On Saturday I went to a family event at a nice hall and a relative at my table had been sick for a week and was recovering. They didn't specify if it was a sv or a cold, but obviously I'm assuming the worst. Now I'm freaking out that I may have caught it from him, even though I washed my hands many times and was extremely cautious. Is it possible to catch the sv from him if that was back on Saturday and he was pretty much recovered? Do you think I just had a panic attack this morning or do I have a sv? I hate not being able to differentiate between anxiety n* versus real n*. All I have to say is thank god for zofran... don't know what I would do without it. Sorry for the long post, just needed to get that off my chest.