This is a story about DAIRY. I have known for quite a while that I am intolerant to casein alpha 1 and lactose. However, I thought I had enough tolerance to risk eating small amounts of (EG) ice cream.
The incident began after my wife and I went to a restaurant and I ate enchilada Suiza, which has cheese melted over it and cream. (Dairy x 2). I had done this previously enough times not to be worried about a reaction.
But then, my wife suggested an ice cream. I suspect the ice cream had evaporated or condensed milk, it had a very dense consistency like glue. I am dangerously intolerant to those milk products. By late evening I felt very unwell. I was suffering a cytokine storm.
I went to emergencies and they did an ECG, I wasn’t having a heart attack. Back home, my BP was all over the place and and rose to 178/100
I took a nifedipine capsule and bit it in half to release the fluid, something I had learned a long time ago. (See my note on this!) But it wouldn’t go below 165/95 so now I was really worried and took half a isoborbide sublingual tablet.
At 4AM I woke feeling a bit unwell, and discovered my BP at 55/40.
What had happened was, I had overdosed on blood pressure medication and as the cytokine storm faded, my BP dropped to life-threatening levels.
NOTE ABOUT NIFEDIPINE
Nifedipine, especially in liquid/direct form, acts quickly and strongly. It’s a calcium channel blocker known for causing rapid hypotension if not carefully titrated — it's actually been pulled from some emergency protocols for this reason, something I had not been aware of.
