A Tennessee woman was diagnosed with Alpha-gal syndrome, or AGS, in 2022, but her first symptoms began nearly 10 years before the diagnosis. Symptoms came in forms of different kinds of rashes, bites that looked like massive spider bites or just really itchy after any kind of bites, nausea, chronic vomiting, chronic diarrhea, diverticulitis, wounds that took weeks and months to heal, she said.
