Yeah it's pretty bad, life threatening close up my throat and my heart stopping a few times kinda bad. It was an ordeal and lots of emergency hospital trips/stays to figure it out for sure, it hides under 80 different names and farm animals eat it, it's in the wax on vegetables, all natural and artificial coloring and flavoring, it's in all medicine, paper and cardboard, ink (no more tats for me!)...the list goes on. I started keeping an ingredient diary until I narrowed it down to one thing because it didn't show up on allergy tests. I'm used to it but not at the same time, I still get resentful of it pretty often but no more tears at the supermarket looking at shelves lined with poison not knowing what to eat lol. (finding clean treats is really hard outside of the gluten free soy free taste free specialty foods)

Don't know till you try! There is a lot of strange alternative medicine out there and I have found so many stupid things that work for different ailments. It sucks to have an injury like what you have, it just sucks to be in pain period. If you can find something effective, it's even better. Every day I lose faith in the medical system, they don't seem to solve much as far as chronic issues.

I'm well enough, my writing mojo got covid and it's in quarantine! lol. I hit quiet periods pretty often. Not sure why, I just do that. I'm more of an introvert and quiet reader, I get my chatty moments on occasion!