Posted by Paco (204.111.53.35) on April 11, 2000 at 05:46:11:
In Reply to: Quick/Slow attacks! posted by Graham on April 10, 2000 at 19:44:42:
...that our body chemistry changes with time, medications, and the physical environment at the moment, differing amongst individuals and even within ourselves. Why else would we have attacks of such varying symptoms, intensity, duration?
My first attack, twenty-one years ago, came on full-blown as though someone had whacked me with club. I was chronic for five years with the classic beet-red eyeball, copious snot and tears, level 8-10 every evening. Now, after so many drugs from an equal number of doctors, and perhaps just getting old, my attacks are seasonal, not as intense and I can manage fairly well with just oxygen. Still, like you, I get the odd attack that comes and goes with no warning. 'Tis an insidious beast, this clusterfucker, and I'm afraid it does not know the rules of cricket.