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After years of being told I was a hypercondriac for my hives and throat swelling out of no where, my migraines, ringing in my ears, joint pain, IBS, anxiety, inflammation, bloating, and more I was referred to Dr. Patel for a pineal gland cyst. He said the cyst is fine and just looking at me said it coming from your mast cell activation look at your skin. He then said most women with a pineal gland cyst (most common in women) around hormone changes their underlying conditions on Hypermobility+ Mast Cell Activation = a cyst and all of my symptoms. I have an autoimmune issue it is all over my body and because it wasn’t one symptom fixed by one pill doctors just passed me around and I learned to live with everything and take a lot of OTCs. Dr. Patel specializes in pineal gland cysts so most of his patients are middle aged women and he’s finding many people with one issue have the other and they are tied together being intensified at hormone changes in middle age (perimenopause). Early in life this often looks like a women with severe and persistent allergies, IBS, and anxiety so they are treated as separate issues.