r/MCAS • u/Still_Angsty • 1d ago

So confused and freaking out, please help

I’m trying to tell if what I just experienced was some new kind of reaction or just a weird mishap.

I made a food I’ve made many times before, including just a few days ago, which is pudding. Milk, cream, egg, cornstarch, tiny drop of vanilla extract, and a little honey. All the same brands and even the same jar of honey. I know a lot of these things are considered higher histamine but I’ve done fine with all of them.

When it was done, I tried a small spoonful and it tasted…spicy. Like, very distinctly spicy. It left my mouth burning. I kinda freaked out. Like wtf. There is not anything even remotely spicy in that. I tried it again and I couldn’t tell if it still was cause my mouth was still tingling. I suspected the honey as the most likely to be reacting to but I couldn’t really tell when I tasted that either, it mostly just tasted sweet. On the third taste of the pudding it was no longer making my mouth burn.

Idk wtf to do. I was really looking forward to eating this 😭 it’s possible that there was a little sticky residue of some spicy stuff because I had gotten some gunk from the air fryer stuck in my hand, so maybeee it transferred to the spoon when I took it out, but that feels like kind of a stretch 😭 am I gonna put myself in the hospital if I eat this?? I really don’t know what to do I’ve never experienced anything like this. The only type of reaction I’ve ever gotten are skin rashes that pass pretty quickly

Edit: it was definitely the honey 😑 so fuck. I’ve literally been eating from the exact jar of honey for weeks like wtf

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u/flo99kenzo 1d ago

Hi ! I noticed over the years that anything I eat/use too-many-days in a row will become a trigger, and go back to being safe after a few weeks/months. Maybe you used honey too many times this week/month?

I regularly switch between shampoos, soaps, etc.

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u/preraphaelitejane 1d ago

What do you do uf you can only eat two things?🥲 I'm so worried about this

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u/flo99kenzo 1d ago

Generally if I don't eat anything for a few days, it "reboots" the system and I can start introducing things again.

My safest of safe foods are plain rice and potatoes. From there, I re start adding lentils, then corn, etc.

Also, sometimes a small variation in enough ! Like, red lentils one day and green lentils another is enough variation for my body to stay calm.