Your Body is Allergic to... Everything? | Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

What happens when the person paid to have all the answers suddenly gets hit with a medical mystery that turns their world entirely upside down? Vicki Jeha is a counseling therapist who spent years helping people navigate their own minds—until her own body decided to stage a coup. In 2023, mid-therapy session, Vicki’s vision started sliding, her limbs went numb, and she was carried out of her office on a stretcher. The diagnosis? A double-whammy of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) and Histamine Intolerance.In this episode, we dig into the "perfect storm" that broke Vicki's immune system, the absolute absurdity of being a therapist who is "allergic to stress," and why a healthy spinach salad is basically poison when your internal "fire alarm" won't stop going off.

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0:41.4	I might sound a little off, and that's because I'm sick.
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0:50.2	But that's not going to stop me from popping on here and with a grovely voice telling you
0:56.0	how excited I am for today's episode. This week, we are sitting down with a dear friend of
1:03.1	ours, Vicky, and we dive into her fascinating journey in trying to figure out what the
1:10.2	heck was going on with her body.
1:12.2	And spoiler alert, Vicky is dealing with mast cell activation syndrome.
1:19.5	MCAS.
1:20.9	And this is a beautiful and fascinating conversation.
1:24.5	Vicky is a counseling therapist here in Halifax, and we just,
1:30.7	we just think she's the bees' knees. And this conversation is really beautiful, really,
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