People Are Allergic To Me (PATM)

[HelplessHopeful]

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?

[thisissoweird]

https://www.change.org/p/general-public-doctors-researchers

Found a petition, we need 77 more votes to get true professional help on this case. How incredibly strange is this life of ours? How I just wish to be able to wake up and go outside and not have to be self conscious of myself because of how I make people uncomfortable..

Guess it's time for a huge 360 life change for me. I'm going vegan starting tomorrow. I need to get rid of this thing.. Will be an active member from now on until the end of it.

[thisissoweird]

SORRY i feel I should add one last thing. Not sure if this symptom has anything to do with the PATM but anytime I eat eggs for instance I always have trailing smell in my nose that doesn't go way for at least 6-8 hours. Other foods that do this are certain meats, ranch, hummus, spicy foods.

It's like theres just a smell inside of my nose that lingers after I eat whatever food it is that I have eaten.

I hope there is something I can do because i've already spent upwards 5k on nose surgeries and the smell is still there in my nose and my breath is still awful... I'm a 20 yr old somewhat handsome college kid from Chicago like I can't believe i'm going thru this at such an early age when I should be flourishing and thriving and finding myself in this world..

[thisissoweird]

Forgot to add that this problem got so bad that I even got a rhinoplasty (plastic surgery) about 3 weeks ago, in hopes that by changing what my nose looks like people will stop itching it around me. This has unfortunately not solved my problem. I also got a septoplasty to fix my deviated septum about a year ago and I was still going thru PATM around that time and it also didn't help with the symptoms.

Thanks you and I hope we can find a cure from this dreaded thing.. I just wanna be normal.

[thisissoweird]

Hi guys. I just googled the question 'why do people itch their nose around me' about 2 hrs about and upon doing lots of research i found this group!!

I guess i have this awful dreaded disease called PATM. It all starts about 2 years ago when I noticed a few people itch above their lip (mustache area) and I thought nothing of it. Gradually more and more people begun to itch their nose when they would have conversations with me. It's gotten to the point where every time I go out I will be micro analyzing everyone because I think my presence makes people uncomfortable. Even if someone isn't around my perimeter but say.. across the room from me in a college classroom I still can catch a glimpse of them itching their nose and looking at me, giving me a weird look. This thing has honestly begun to ruin my life and self esteem a lot. I am beginning to feel like I'm never going to have a romantic relationship because of this awful thing. I don't have a fish smell thats coming from my pores thanks god. But I do have an extremely dry nose and even more dry mouth. I am looking for ANY advice at all from you guys. Please. If I had the choice i'd cut off a limb just to cure this forever. It's so annoying I can't even begin to describe it to others because they all think i've gone completely bonkers! I eat healthy and exercise very frequently. I'll take any advice you guys have in terms of alleviating the symptoms, and if I find anything i'll report it here!

I think I will go buy oregano oil capsules with p73 written on the label tomorrow because I noticed some people talking about it. Might also buy some charcoal / chlorophyll capsules. Although i'm not sure if its a good idea to take all of those at once. If anyone wants to message me to have a more private conversation i'm free and willing to talk to all of you. So crazy that there's more people that have this... I just want people to stop itching themselves around me!!! I will do anything that will make this go away, i'm serious.

Thank you...

[grateful2011]

wow - ok thanx for the updated info regarding resistant starch !

More study/research  for me is needed, will do !

[jn4357]

In response to resistant starch, the article that I posted last week says to avoid/limit  resistant starches which contribute to gas production via bacteria digestion..which can contribute to symptoms of gerd etc. The only reason I posted that article was that an overwhelming number of people (since the forum was created) reported to have gerd. I assume there is a connection to patm however I am uncertain whether it is related to carbohydrate malabsorption. I also remember some patmers reported a low carb diet helped to reduce there patm symptoms.

To add in regards to being on a vegetarian diet. I would say I have been following a vegetarian diet practically all my life (at least 90%)  with an occasional time here or there having a meat/poultry dish. Currently I don't think being on a veg diet makes much difference but I could be wrong. I remember one time I planned to see my doctor and I purposely had McD's for lunch but my patm did not get worse or stronger when I went in to see her. Maybe I didn't give time to fully digest my meal?? who knows!