"My body acts as if I am allergic to anything at any time without rhyme or reason."
"May be allergic to this, may not be, it's a surprise."
"You know how you have heard about people dying if they eat a peanut? Same tribe."
"Mast cells in our body spew out histamines and other chemicals when needed, but mine don't turn off as they should, causing reactions all over my body-- asthma, GI problems, itching."
"Imagine having allergic type reactions to things you’re not technically allergic to. And it can hit you at any time without warning."
"Sometimes I just pick my most severe issue at the moment and use it as an example. For instance, I have five foods I can eat every day that are safe for me."
"My immune and nervous system are on hyper alert and react dramatically to everyday things."
"All systems are malfunctioning."
"Mast cells are immune cells that explode like bombs releasing inflammatory compounds protecting our bodies from invaders like bacteria and viruses."
"Every body is filled with mast cells. For many people, they are normal. For me, they are raging world war 3."
"I carry epi pens and such because I never know when something will set me off, and while I do my best to avoid things that trigger me, sometimes it is something I didn’t know would trigger me."
"My mast cells are haywire and over produce histamine that cause allergic type reactions."
"My immune system is a toddler who throws a fit over random ridiculous stuff!"
"It’s like a cancer of the immune system, there’s no cure, and it’s progressive. It causes anaphylactic reactions that affects my whole body within a couple of minutes of breathing it."
"MCAS is like having a bucket full of water, and the only thing keeping the water from spilling over is surface tension. It only takes a small amount of water added to cause the contents of the bucket to spill out.
"I have a genetic inability to metabolize chemical exposures."
"My body hates itself."
"My immune system reacts to things it shouldn't and sometimes to nothing at all."
“My immune system is on overdrive and likes to attack random things at random times.”
"My liver can’t digest histamine, so anything that produces histamine in the body makes my life a living hell."
"Having overactive mast cells is like having a school full of teenage boys who like to pull the fire alarm just for fun."
"Overactive immune system."
"My cells are extremely pissed off and they started an internal civil war. The bad cells took over the good ones for a bit, so there’s a battle going on. I’m now head of the warfare intelligence and a strategist."
"I have a histamine cup and went it gets full, my mast cells fire too much and make me sick instead of help."
"My immune system is trying to kill me, and has PTSD, and is tilting at windmills."
"My itchy scratchy cells are extra itchy scratchy."
"My body is a drama queen."
"My body tries to kill me at random for just existing."
"When your body is trying to fight something off, like a virus, it produces histamine! My body is constantly fighting and producing too much histamine!"
"My immune cells are constantly poisoning me with inflammatory chemicals."