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dealing with cs/teargas health issues (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by RiotDoll@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I went to a small protest during the start of the No Kings stuff a few months ago.

I didn't do much; other people were getting up to stuff, and i was just there as a warm body/support/whatever i guess. I happened to be near somebody the police shot a crowd control weapon at. The gas only got me a little bit - initially it was maybe a minute or two of eye/face irritation and then it was fine.

but in the following days, my tear ducts swelled up, my hands and feet swelled up such that i had massive skin dieoff, and i thought i was fucking dying with how sick i felt

Now it seems to be cyclical. Right now my eyes are swolen and red again. My hands are swolen again. My joints hurt. This is the third time since being exposed that this has happened, and I had never experienced anything like that before going to this protest

I genuinely don't know what to do to deal with this, it's hugely disruptive. Does it go away? I t hought people on hexbear might have some insight, because right now i mostly have to just suck it up - take anti-inflammatories, tylenol, etc. and dabbing pain relieving ointments around the outside of my eye

these motherfuckers will poison you just for protesting.

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[–] RiotDoll@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it seems to come and go in a cycle. it's not every night, but for the last couple of months i go through a period of several days where i swell up, have this reaction, then it stops/goes away for a bit

I haven't done what somebody else suggested, which is oiling my clothes and sheets before washing in detergent, but all of my clothes and sheets have been washed many times over at this point since the event, and I was paranoid and went super hard on cleaning surfaces after the exposure

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

The infrequency of this seems very odd to me. I think this might be something other than the teargas at this point. Have you tried sleeping somewhere other than the bed for a change in environment A/B test? How about something as simple as a benadryl or allergy pill when the flare's come on to see if it helps alleviate the symptoms.

I don't know anything about oiling your clothes before washing as that's definitely outside of my purview. Unless you were going to add vinegar as well, then I could recommend some seasoning to really kick up your salad laundry.