Asthma is one of the MOST COMMON side effects. It usually occurs under an umbrella of symptoms called MCAS or Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.
Way over half the vaccinated people I know have developed MCAS symptoms ranging from barely noticeable sub-clinical effects to SEVERE asthmatic response to almost ANY stimulus including like just the smell of laundry, but also the usual asthma triggers.
My partner has it severely. He describes it as a steel hand closing around his throat and squeezing his heart whenever he's triggered and it doesn't take much, just like going for a drive and catching the slightest wiff of diesel exhaust will do it. Symptoms usually take a few hours to calm down.
His RESTING heart beat went up to about 120 bpm up from about 80 bpm. Nearly a year later we've gotten it down to about 90 bpm and reduced his chest pains.
I begged him not to get it. And frankly it's almost destroyed our relationship. It's not that he can't admit he made a mistake. He absolutely acknowledges he fucked up. But it's also exposed him to me as someone who's willing to blame every liar around them instead of taking responsibility for his own life when he knows he fucked up.
He still relies on me to get him ANY and ALL information about his current condition. Or current events in general. I can BARELY have a conversation about anything remotely controversial without him just repeating really vague true-isms and other people's opinions. And when you call him out on it, he just agrees and says "well it IS what I think, what I think when you talk about this stuff is what other people will say. That is what I think".
... Which is infuriating. If you ever FINALLY get him to understand your point that you want to talk about what HE thinks, he basically just gives up and says a version of "ugh that's way too hard ain't nobody got time for that" or "I can't".
And now I'm in this fucking awkward situation where on ONE hand I'm dating a fucking miracle .. because almost NOBODY I know like him is willing to examine their own head as much as he has over the last year. It's incredibly attractive. And MY MOST IMPORTANT QUALITY in a partner.
How could anybody want to break up with someone like that!?
But at the same time, in some ways I see him confront his new reality the same way he confronted his old one, just with better facts ... and that makes me wonder if he'll really be there and do the right thing the next time he doesn't have the right facts.
And every time I think about it that way I fall out of love and wonder what the hell I'm doing in this relationship.
Asthma is one of the MOST COMMON side effects. It usually occurs under an umbrella of symptoms called MCAS or Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.
Way over half the vaccinated people I know have developed MCAS symptoms ranging from barely noticeable sub-clinical effects to SEVERE asthmatic response to almost ANY stimulus including like just the smell of laundry, but also the usual asthma triggers.
My partner has it severely. He describes it as a steel hand closing around his throat and squeezing his heart whenever he's triggered and it doesn't take much, just like going for a drive and catching the slightest wiff of diesel exhaust will do it. Symptoms usually take a few hours to calm down.
His RESTING heart beat went up to about 120 bpm up from about 80 bpm. Nearly a year later we've gotten it down to about 90 bpm and reduced his chest pains.
I begged him not to get it. And frankly it's almost destroyed our relationship. It's not that he can't admit he made a mistake. He absolutely acknowledges he fucked up. But it's also exposed him to me as someone who's willing to blame every liar around them instead of taking responsibility for his own life when he knows he fucked up.
He still relies on me to get him ANY and ALL information about his current condition. Or current events in general. I can BARELY have a conversation about anything remotely controversial without him just repeating really vague true-isms and other people's opinions. And when you call him out on it, he just agrees and says "well it IS what I think, what I think when you talk about this stuff is what other people will say. That is what I think".
... Which is infuriating. If you ever FINALLY get him to understand your point that you want to talk about what HE thinks, he basically just gives up and says a version of "ugh that's way too hard ain't nobody got time for that" or "I can't".
And now I'm in this fucking awkward situation where on ONE hand I'm dating a fucking miracle .. because almost NOBODY I know like him is willing to examine their own head as much as he has over the last year. It's incredibly attractive. And MY MOST IMPORTANT QUALITY in a partner.
How could anybody want to break up with someone like that!?
But at the same time, in some ways I see him confront his new reality the same way he confronted his old one, just with better facts ... and that makes me wonder if he'll really be there and do the right thing the next time he doesn't have the right facts.
And every time I think about it that way I fall out of love and wonder what the hell I'm doing in this relationship.