MSG reaction?

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The flushed warm feeling post/thread made me decide to post about

this.

I am assuming it was MSG and am wondering if anyone else has ever

experienced this extreme of a reaction from it or anything else.

We had chinese food about 2 weeks ago. Do not eat it that often at all

and always pick the places that do not add any MSG, in hopes it will

have less. I know it does not mean NO MSG.

We had been doing a lot of painting and repairs so i wnated a break

from cooking. We got take out. With in a couple of hrs i got a head

ache, was thristy. No biggie.

Next morning i felt like i had been hit by a truck. My head throbbed

so horrendously, shooting pains everytime i moved - all through my head

and into my ears. My entire body ached severly from barely being

touched/poked - nothing touching me at all and i still throbbed, all

the way into my joints. I was super thristy (had been drinking a lot

of water since ngiht before - had that sloshy water feeling i was

drinking so much). The room would spin if i closed my eyes, sometimes

if they were open. I felt dizzy and my balance was really bad. It was

hard to walk i would almsot fall over repeatedly for the first couple

of minutes after getting up until i could get a bit of control over my

body. I could hardly talk as thinking and forming words was hard. I

mixed them up badly. It was like this for the first 2 - 3 days. Non

stop throbbing every where and i had fevers - 104. and higher, chills,

and sweats.

Day three the extremeness of symptoms had gone down - to normal or

hardly any pain, dizzy only when making fast movements, still

experiencing bad speech. It took an entire week after the first 2-3

days of extreme reaction before i started to feel normal again. The

last 6 days or so i was getting my balance back, pain totally gone, no

more spinning rooms, the speech issues - mixing up words, having

trouble saying some etc... was the last thing i got back. I was scared

i fried my brain or something! My DH was afraid that maybe i was

permanently injured from itv also. There was no known illness going

around, we all ate the same foods, from same serving cartons, had been

to the same places in the past week, and there was no other symptoms

besides what i listed - all nuero. No upset tummy nothing. And nobdoy

else in my family got it, nor have i heard of anything similar going

around, like a flu etc...

It lead me to beleive it was solely MSG. Any thoughts?