Am I allergic to other people? Bacterial Infection? Posted: 12-31-06 11:16am
Hello ..
I'm trying to find out what the cause is
to these symptoms ..
these last aprox. 12 hours ..
chills .. joint pains .. headaches ..
sensitive skin ..
background: I've been living in the uk now
for 20 years .. since arriving i keep
getting the above symptoms after being in
contact with certain people .. the
symptoms start aprox 45 minutes after
contact and lasts about 12 hours .. it
happens quite a lot to the point where i'm
afraid to socialise .. .. normaly it seems
to be a case of breathing something in
that other people breath out .. i say this
as it normally happens in a closed
enviroment such as a room .. a car .. any
enclosed enviroment where there seems to
be a lack of fresh air .. this includes
small shops .. trains .. buses etc .. ..
i'm fairly sure it's an airborne bug of
some nature that is possibly hosted in
peoples throats .. quite often the other
person has a dry cough and all (whom i
know) drink alcohol of some nature .. i'm
not a drinker myself .. .. it's got to the
point where i can no longer see one close
friend as just about every time i see him
.. i get sick .. .. have noticed a couple
of things .. i once worked in an office
with said person and at the time a
dehumidifier was installed .. i stopped
getting sick from that contact .. another
time i was asked to look after his cats
when he went on holiday .. well i went to
his house .. he had departed on his
holidays .. yet i still got sick with the
same symptoms .. the next week i wore a
d.i.y. face mask when visiting his house
and did not get the symptoms at all ( he
does make wine in his house and bakes
bread) .. i've also had the similar
symptoms after eating bread from the local
bakery .. sometimes there is an odour
present .. but it's not totaly unpleasant
.. this also helped breakup up a
relationship as my gf at the time went to
work in an office enviroment .. and i
started to get the same symptoms on a
weekly basis .. .. i'd say aprox 4 out of
10 people effect me like that .. and .. as
i have a bad joint in my lower back the
symptoms agravate that as well .. .. i've
posted this in the 'bacteria' section due
to the fact that the symptoms come on so
quickly .. so .. **any idea what the cause
might be .. and what can i do about it**
..
.. i've lived in a few countries but have
never ever come across this before .. and
it has made me somewhat of a hermit :-)
thank you for your time ...
~ kozmos ~
According to the symptoms you report
(chills, joint pains, headaches, sensitive
skin) and their strange appearance
(symptoms occur 45 min. after contact with
other people and last 12 hours), it
doesn’t seem likely that you are
experiencing a bacterial infection. None
of the known bacterial infections act like
this. An allergy also doesn’t seem
possible because allergies to people
don’t exist in medical science. You may,
however, be experiencing social anxiety
disorder (a kind of neurotic disorder).
You can ask for expert help from a mental
health doctor for diagnosis and treatment
options.
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