Mast Cell Mom

I am a woman of faith. It IS BECAUSE OF MY FAITH that each new day is a hope and a blessing. I believe The Lord uses people for His plan. While my physical pain is laughable compared to the majority of this world suffering with far worse, such as cancers or persecutions, I know He still uses my laughable pain when I let Him use me. Just last Friday I learned that my daily symptoms (minus the low fever) is actually not a daily cold, but it's a daily sinus infection. Every day my MCAS feels like and mimics a sinus infection. Even after a round of antibiotics, I'm no "better" except that the low fever is gone. Every other symptom is still there, and I'm so sad to admit that the post nasal drip is even worse. The-bane-of-my-existence- symptom is now worse. 😢 The enemy will do that. It's the one symptom that I so desperately want to go away, and this past week, after antibiotics, it's worse than ever. Why? How? If that's not an attack to my spiritual ...

Living with my MCAS causes me to feel like I have a cold every day. {correction: what I thought I was feeling was a cold was diagnosed as a sinus infection by my MD.}. Some days it's mild and other days it's beyond mild; just depends if I'm "triggered" or in a flare. What I mean is, my nose always runs, my eyes usually ache or swell, or I have chronic post nasal drip (which can't be seen, but I assure you, it's maddening); which, in turn, gives me either a sore or a dry throat on the daily. I'm usually 2 days into a "real" cold before I even know I'm actually battling a cold *virus* because, up until that point, I assume it's the MCAS cold-like symptoms; because they're a daily symptom for me. I'm usually realizing that I'm "actually sick" when a real cold virus is on the downslide. That's how much the MCAS symptoms mimic a cold virus.  😐 It's not as though it's something I'm going to talk ab...