Actually thinking back... I think my first experience having the reaction to mosquitoes was vacationing in Denmark at 15, and at 14 I had burst appendecitis wit

Actually thinking back... I think my first experience having the reaction to mosquitoes was vacationing in Denmark at 15, and at 14 I had burst appendecitis with moderately progressed peritonitis that required extensive laparotomy with a hefty antibiotic course to prevent progression to fullblown sepsis. The infection even flared up weeks later(or it was a new infection) and I had to do another course on a different antibiotic this time. It was around 15 that my mental health really started to deteriorate too. The one mentioned earlier was at age 20 due to severe pneumonia. And my mental health took yet another nosedive after that as well. The appendix interacts with the gut microbiome and the immune system, which interact with eachother, and both have been linked to mental illness in various ways. I always felt like all these things were somehow connected but I could never quite nail it down. I asked my GP once but she gave me a look that could only mean "who do you think I am, Greg House?" And very little concrete came of it. The allergies might be the "signal" that helps give weight to this theory beyond my fool's hope that it can all be cured with a fecal transplant or something.