My mother passed away when I was 16. Up until then, she'd smoked all the time (her death was not smoke related, btw).
After she died, I noticed I stopped having colds about 4-5 times per year. No one else in the house smoked, and I've made a personal vow to never ever smoke ANYTHING, be it nicotine, pot, etc.
I've been dancing for two weeks now, and last Friday it seems EVERYONE lit up. For my last set (around 1am), everyone at the tip rail was smoking. I couldn't breathe up there. I had the day off Saturday, but I did go up to the club with a friend for drinks.
Sunday morning I woke up with a light tickle in my throat. Didn't think much of it and went to work. My condition quickly spiraled downward and 4 hours into my 8-hour shift I was getting chills, body aches, my throat was killing me, it was getting very hard to breathe, and I was running a fever.
Yesterday my dad had to drive me to the doctor because I was completely incapacitated. I could barely move, I was drifting in and out of consciousness, couldn't stay warm despite THICK layers of clothes... it was bad.
Doctors gave me a breathing neurolyzer (sp?) treatment which helped the shortness of breath, and sent me home with some anti-allergy nasal spray and some steroidal pills, as well as a doctor's note to keep me out of work until Thursday (My doctor doesn't know I'm a stripper - I would have told her but she had a couple student nurses in there with her and call me stingy but I don't like talking about my personal details in front of people I'm not comfortable with) I told her I had been around cigarette smoke and I had a feeling I had an allergy, which is why she gave me the spray.
The docs did run a Strep and Flu test and it came out negative, so I don't have either of those.
The spray seemed to help - after I took a couple snorts of it I was finally able to at least get up and walk around the house. I've never had a formal allergy test done on me before though.
I'm scared of going back to work (my next available shift would be Friday). Has anyone here ever had issues with the smoke in their clubs?? I didn't think it'd be a problem since I'd been away from it for 5 years and some allergies will fade away after no exposure.



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it took a whole hour. Thats how I found out about the enviromental allergies...like everything outside floating around lol, the pet dander, the dust, then the protein in milk, pork and beef, and then strawberries and kiwi and a yeast used in most beers.

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