Lauren - like Bree said - I broke out in mysterious hives and I could not figure out why. We had just got a new kitten about a month before I was getting hives, and I *knew* it couldn't be that because we'd had another cat for 1.5 years before getting this kitty. It didn't make sense that it was the kitten.
It got to the point that I was breaking out in 10-20 hive spots a day. Then we went to Bree's for a week, and in the car, my spots stopped itching. And the whole time I was at Bree's, I didn't get one spot and all my old spots healed! Within a half hour of me getting home, I found that I was itching like MAD and by the next morning I had about 5 or 6 fresh new spots. I got rid of the kitten a couple weeks later, and I've never had the hives again.
Now, Bree said that the doctor told me it was a hypersensitivity to flea bites (which he DID), but I don't believe it, lol. Because IF it was fleas, they wouldn't just die the second my cat left the house. They would have been on me, in my sheets, in my carpet, on my couch, etc, and I would have continued with the hives until I fumigated and all the fleas died. When I was tested for allergies, I didn't react with the "cat" prick, but it may have just been the wrong thing... You can be allergic to their skin oils, their saliva, their fur (or their soft downy fur under their main fur), even with how their body reacts to their cat food!
I also thought I couldn't be allergic to my kitten because I wasn't allergic to Meeko (who we got rid of only 6 months before getting our kitten Willow). But yeah, apparently I can because I could not stop itching or breaking out while having Willow!! I was soooo sad to get rid of her, but the hives literally stopped the day she left the house.
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