No, no, I'm fine, don't worry! Page 4

Quote: Seefacts @ January 24 2009, 9:00 PM GMT

Just been to hospital today after suffering a lovely allergic reaction to crab.

I couldn't breathe, my eyes kind of swelled up and I went all weird and blotchy. It's all good fun for a Saturday.

Sat in A&E it was obvious I'd be an easy answer in the 'Lets get people's ailments game'.

But no fear, apart from feeling like shit, I'm okay!

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Surely you could breathe, or you'd be dead. Perhaps you've taken on crab-like powers and walk sideways and don't need oxygen or something.

I don't f**king know, between people down in the dumps, moody, allergies, depressed, blue rooms, funny turns, blah, blah, etc, etc; Oh I had a paper cut today I must start a f**king thread about it.

I worry about the wasp/bee sting too. Never happened to me.

Was this the first time you'd had crab?

Seefacts - make sure your GP prescribes you with a couple of Epipens and make sure you always have one with you. Allergic symptoms tend to get worse and this reaction (which was actually quite bad from your description) was a warning. I'd probably say avoid other shellfish too to be on the safe side.

I remember back in 2001 I had a day off work and went into the local college to see my bird who was doing an art course. One of her friends sprayed some hairspray on the back of my head. A few hours later the back of my head started itching like hell. The next morning I woke up and my entire body was covered in blotches. I eventually got to the doctors and got prescribed some anti-histamines, but by that point all the pharmacists were shut. So I stayed blotchy and couldn't go out that night. I had a new coat to wear and everything!

Quote: Nigel Kelly @ January 25 2009, 12:44 AM GMT

Surely you could breathe, or you'd be dead.

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Okay, 'had trouble breathing'. But this thread isn't negative, it's a positive tale of how I beat some fish.

Quote: Ben @ January 25 2009, 10:50 AM GMT

I worry about the wasp/bee sting too. Never happened to me.

Was this the first time you'd had crab?

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Yeah, first time. I've had loads of other fish based food by never crab. I've been told to avoid all shellfish, but I might just avoid anything fish based (barring the basics like cod) just to be on the safe side.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ January 25 2009, 10:56 AM GMT

Seefacts - make sure your GP prescribes you with a couple of Epipens and make sure you always have one with you. Allergic symptoms tend to get worse and this reaction (which was actually quite bad from your description) was a warning. I'd probably say avoid other shellfish too to be on the safe side.

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I'm booking myself into the docs this week. Of course, being allergic to some fish means I shouldn't go near docs. Ho ho.

Quote: Ben @ January 25 2009, 10:58 AM GMT

I had a new coat to wear and everything!

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Ha, ha.

Griff hows that seafood importing company you were going to start up?
The one that specialised in Japanese poisonous death crabs?

Quote: sootyj @ January 25 2009, 11:45 AM GMT

The one that specialised in Japanese poisonous death crabs?

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Nippon Nippers or Kamikaze Claws?

Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ January 25 2009, 12:06 AM GMT

This was why there were hardly any boys in country dancing classes.

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I remember when my sister used to go to a dance class (Ballroom etc), there was one solitary boy that used to go. He was really effeminate, eg when I'd go to pick my sister up with my mum, he'd be sat on a chair, brushing the mane of a My Little Pony! In his defence, he probably had a siter in the class, whom it belonged to. Funnily enough, years later, during the summer before he went to Uiniversity, he got a Summer job on a building site.

Quote: Ben @ January 25 2009, 10:58 AM GMT

I had a new coat to wear and everything!

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A new coat? Why then, you must have a precise date for this incident?

Quote: Seefacts @ January 25 2009, 11:13 AM GMT

Okay, 'had trouble breathing'. But this thread isn't negative, it's a positive tale of how I beat some fish.

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In a bare-knuckle fight TO THE DEATH.

Quote: Seefacts @ January 25 2009, 11:13 AM GMT

I might just avoid anything fish based (barring the basics like cod) just to be on the safe side.

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You knows it.

Quote: catskillz @ January 25 2009, 1:42 PM GMT

Funnily enough, years later, during the summer before he went to Uiniversity, he got a Summer job on a building site.

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What, surrounded by muscled, toned men, topless for the heat, catching the sun on their bronzed torsos....?

Quote: Aaron @ January 25 2009, 2:13 PM GMT

What, surrounded by muscled, toned men, topless for the heat, catching the sun on their bronzed torsos....?

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Obviously you've never been to a building site.

Quote: Gavin @ January 25 2009, 2:16 PM GMT

Obviously you've never been to a building site.

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No, but I've seen them on TV documentaries from many years ago when catskillz is referring to.

(Well, not that long ago... But you get my meaning.)

Quote: Aaron @ January 25 2009, 2:29 PM GMT

No, but I've seen them on TV documentaries from many years ago

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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is not a documentary.

Quote: Nil Putters @ January 25 2009, 2:32 PM GMT

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is not a documentary.

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Nor the Diet coke Ads.

Quote: catskillz @ January 25 2009, 1:42 PM GMT

he got a Summer job on a building site.

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I think I've seen him in Village People.

Quote: Nil Putters @ January 25 2009, 2:32 PM GMT

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is not a documentary.

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Haven't seen it.

Quote: roscoff @ January 25 2009, 2:43 PM GMT

I think I've seen him in Village People.

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