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People Are Allergic To Me (PATM)

People are allergic to me. And a lot of other people around the world are suffering from this condition. Doctors do not beleive the reports, and most of them claim that we are crazy but we all know that we're far from being crazy. This condition causes so much heartache and stress. I have sent emails to CDC, NIH and WHO with no help. Would you please address this issue?
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@Ranciere -

Glad to help. Never forget how cruel people can be, but likewise, don't neglect to consider how they got there. Society at large has more issues than any PATMer ever will.

@freeland1924 -

Words cannot describe how refreshing your logical approach to our situation is. Thank you!
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@jn4357. Hello there. That’s what I call intellectual reasoning. Carbon Monoxide (CO) does give the same observable symptoms as patm doesn’t it. The resemblance is almost indistinguishable.
In actually fact you can indeed buy Carbon Monoxide Detector online or check out a good deal of stores in your area.

“I rejected this theory because other symptoms such as itching and coughing didn't really add up but maybe I'm wrong.”

Coughing (flu-like effects) is one of the main symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning but I don’t know about itching but possibly itching can be interpreted as a sign of discomfort.

CO is one of the few gases that fit the profile of what we observe. There’s one bit of a problem. Though we produce a small amounts within our body as a result of cellular processes, alas we are not the only one.. smokers breathe in CO from cigarettes incomplete combustion all the time… but small amount ! They should have some immunity than ordinary people. Any combustible machinery produces large amount of CO over time too.

We disregarded CO base on that fact but it is a good candidate to rule out whenever attainable. The good news it’s an experiment that anyone can do. Thank you for reminding me @jn4357, you have a great scientific and curious mind.
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I find your experiment very interesting.....I had this theory recently but I eventually rejected it but your experiment seems to somewhat support it.

My theory was CO (carbon monoxide) and here's why:
-odorless, tasteless, difficult to detect
-slightly lighter than air
-produced naturally by the human body (gasotransmitter) like NO, HS
-CO poisoning usually similar to having flu-like symptoms which include headache, nausea, dizziness, malaise, drowsiness, fatigue, muscle weakness/cramps
-CO has a high affinity for hemoglobin therefore can effect anyone even possibly far away
-because it can bind to hemoglobin it displaces oxygen causing you too breath heavily, yawn and even sigh
- unable to tell if someone has CO poisoning as they look healthy and sometimes have a "red-cheeked" look...plus I've noticed some people turn red/flush in my presence which may explain why
-hard to diagnose, not even a pulse oximeter for O2 saturation can detect it, it will just show normal O2 levels instead
-only way to test for it is carboxyhemoglobin blood test or Co-oximeter
-treatment is oxygen usually via hyperbaric chamber

We could be producing steadily low levels enough to cause reactions and at the same time somehow developed a tolerance to it. Plus even before I had patm I remember feeling strangely sleepy and yawning all the time and muscle cramps. It's also a vasodilator (blood vessel relaxant) and anti-inflammatory which may explain my personal experience of having red spots on my legs which my doctor attributed to leakage from my capillaries...this may actually be the cause of CO?!

I rejected this theory because other symptoms such as itching and coughing didn't really add up but maybe I'm wrong. CO also effects the CNS; I definitely noticed memory issues in my mom but I seem to be unaffected, weird? again this may be some sort of tolerance to it. I don't know but this so far seems to be the most plausible answer. The best way to find out is to ask your doctors to test for it!!! I hope we have it!!!
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sure enough you can tell when a patmer is explaining from experience and when someone else is trying hard to pretend. I can tell you a definitely telling the truth soilsystem from your own experience. God bless you.

ray2502@ hi ray.. I read the doctor gave you vaccinations way back last year that appeared to help and lower your patm significantly for a while but it soon came back with a vengeance. What did the doctor say you were initially low with? Was it IgA or IgG antibodies? I can’t retrieve but it might have a good explanation for something.
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yes, babies and dogs do not lie!  i have had babies react violently to me (coughing/sneezing violently) when i'm patming, and dogs get very agitated within a large radius around me

i have the type of patm that can cause suffocating coughing...the coughing ranges from throat-clearing (technically not coughing, but still an attempt to "clear" something, mucus?)  to the knock-down drag-out "sounds like they're dying" coughing...all at a rate of occurrence in the population much, much higher than expected for a nonpatm person.

i had the experience, once, when a nurse was standing close to me to take a blood sample, where she said "wow, that was weird"...and i said "what was", she said "i just felt this weird fluttery/wavy feel in my throat"...people, this is what i experience, some sort of undulating/wavy feel (the times i have "made" myself cough), and i also feel undulating motion within my body, not sure if nerves or muscles, and i also have undulating fevers

this leads me to suspect brucella as the bacterial component of this...brucella is a spirochete organism and very difficult to detect/treat properly...produces undulating fever and body odor like wet hay (this is what my odor smelled like when it started)...i believe that the brucella is complicated with some sort of fungal synergy that assists it to propell itself beyond the "normal" brucella infection.  

i am interested in theories for what is the causative factor of this...freeland, i applaud your scientific approach for the "signs" of the disease (VOC profile) as a way to get back to the cause, btw great work with oxygen mask test!
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Babies tell it all. No malice. I did a experiment in frontvof my mom once. My neice was sleeping sitting up in chair 1 yrs old. I told my mom, watch even though shes asleep she will react. Sure enough i walked up ro her and she sneezed kept sleeping. I sat on couch but faced wall. I told my mther watch, i will keep my mouth closed and just turn my head in her drection and she will react. It turned my facecto thecwall and back to my niece a few times, each time she reacted and the last time she woke up completely rubbing her nose ferociously.  This condition is so very real. I hate it
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