Well for my most recent “strange people” stories I am going to have to tell one about myself…Over the last couple of years I have been getting odd skin rashes when my skin is exposed to cold, some hives, redness, itchiness, mostly when I am in cold water, or my skin is exposed to cold air, its never been to serious so just ignored it
But this weekend I went down to the crowsnest pass as for some fishing and nice scenery, and out Saturday (a beautiful day sunny day must have been 30 degrees) my family and I went tubing down the crowsnest river the water was pretty cold but I thought I could manage…
So we get about 20 minutes into the float and I start getting my typical redness and hives, but its pretty bad, about 5 minutes pass and I start to seriously shiver but I still treat it as noting finally my dad says ok maybe we show switch boats, because his is out of the water, so we pull up on sore and that’s when things go bad for me
To make a long story shot, I pretty much went into anaphylactic shock, was white as a ghost, could hardly breath, and was extremely cold, was rushed to emergency when I got there my body temp was 32.1 degrees and that was after laying in the sun for about half an hour and my blood pressure was extremely low
The doctor told me that I am literally allergic to cold, when my skin is exposed to cold water/ air I release a ton of histamines and my throat could easily swell up and I could suffocate or it could drop my blood pressure so low that it will stop my heart, the Doctor said it was the strangest thing he has seen in along time so I had had to post it in this thread
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