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07-20-2009, 09:24 AM
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Really?!.........
so NOT to start the day on a "poor me" note, but.....
remember how last week i had some sort of allergic reaction and broke out in hives? yeah, so they threw me on steroids for the week and saturday was my last dose.... and now..... they're back! really?! so i call the dr. and of course she's OUT this week, so i'm waiting for them to call me w/ the referring dr.'s #...... you know what's weird is that i've NEVER had hives before this recent bout... i never even had allergies! this aging thing is CLEARLY not agreeing w/ me!  tee hee 
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07-20-2009, 09:26 AM
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Lauren - are you taking any kind of new medication? This is what happened to me when I found out I was allergic to sulfa drugs, and it took about six weeks to get the drugs completely out of my system before I quit breaking out.
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07-20-2009, 09:39 AM
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geezus woman.. what about like regular tests did they do any blood work? liver function etc etc.. I know when things go wonky you can get all sorts of rash/hive issues.
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07-20-2009, 09:42 AM
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Good grief!! I hope they can get you straightened out soon. Hives just aren't sexy.
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07-20-2009, 09:47 AM
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Darcy - no, no new meds (my MIL is also allergic to sulfa meds!)
La - no, cuz i was just at urgent care last time, so they just did the steroid shot and gave me a script. so hopefully today someone will do SOMETHIN to figure it out! eta: Libby, YES, sexy they are NOT fo sho! (although dh finds me sexy even when i'm covered in them! )eta (again): dh thinks it's Cooper our kitten, but how can i be allergic to HIM and not our other cat Lucy we've had for a year?
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07-20-2009, 10:03 AM
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it's possible.. some cats give me more issues than others, and dogs too obviously.. different breeds are worse than others. So maybe.. Sucks if it's kitty though :[ but.. I'd lean to it being something more since like regular antihistamines weren't workin for you.
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07-20-2009, 10:46 AM
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Have you changed shampoo/conditioner in the past month or two? I've found that I'm allergic to shampoos or conditioners or even body soap, but the hives don't come right when I switch, but when I'm about halfway through the bottle. Sometimes even 3/4. It stays around until I finally quit using it, after which it disappears rather quickly.
Not fun! I hope it gets better!
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07-20-2009, 10:49 AM
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Maybe it's fleas?
I'm not even trying to be funny, lol...Jae had broken out with a rash and hives after they got their kitten, and couldn't figure it out. The doctor originally thought fleas but then scratched it off the list because her DH and baby weren't getting hives - they tested her for a while and then she came to visit me for a few days, the rash went away. So they went home and got rid of the kitten...only to find out she's hypersensitive to flea bites!
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07-20-2009, 10:51 AM
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Rats, Lauren, I thought this was improving for you!!! Hopefully you can get in to another doc?
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07-20-2009, 11:04 AM
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that seriously sucks!! I hope you get some answers and RELIEF soon!!!!
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07-20-2009, 11:05 AM
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I got the "flu" one winter really bad when I was about 19 or so....never could seem to get rid of it...was drinking like a quart of OJ every day...finally my sis dragged me in to her allergist...I had NEVER had allergies before...suddenly I am allergic to:
1) OJ 2) ragweed 3) mold 4) dust 5) certain trees etc etc etc ....then I start getting allergic to about every kind of meds they give me...sulfa, penicillin, dolobid...and even red dye (yep allergic to Benadryl liquid and pills! until they came out with the dye free) I had a miserable couple of years of breaking out in hives and discovering I was allergic to about everything under the sun! An allergist is your best bet to narrow down this!
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07-20-2009, 11:15 AM
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OH NO! THat's awful!!! I am so sorry! My mom get's hives terribly at times and went to all kinds of doctors and allergists and they finally told her that she had this crazy weird thing where she can just bust out in hives for no apparent reason and there's nothing to be done about it other than to take the steroids if it gets really bad. She almost passed out once and they said that she could have died if we hadn't gotten her in to the hospital soon enough.
It's crazy! I hope that they can find something to pinpoint yours to!
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07-20-2009, 11:47 AM
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07-20-2009, 11:49 AM
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i blame tephlon! that's GOTTA be what's making us all effed up, right!?
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07-20-2009, 11:57 AM
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teflon IS the root of all evil.. lol.
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07-20-2009, 11:59 AM
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yeah...they can just pop up at any time for her. It's been years since she's had them bad though. Thanks goodness! But it is scary not knowing what to avoid. I hope that you can really find some info about yours!
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07-20-2009, 01:27 PM
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well i was able to get into the dr....well the dr. isn't there, but the nurse was able to see me. she gave me ANOTHER steroid shot, and took blood to have tested for allergies. Then she gave me another prescription for another week long round of steroids again..... dude i'm gonna be HUGE!
so i have to call in a week to see if the bloodwork showed any allergies... i hope it does so i could get rid of whatever it is..... but who knows! i'll keep ya posted! xoxo
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07-20-2009, 01:41 PM
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allergies can defenitely pop up at anytime. I have used bandaids all my life and then one day I used one and it made the area under the bandaid and about three or so inches around it break out really bad and it itched like crazy. So for a small cut I ended up with a bunch of blistery type hives.
My daughter and I are both allergic to metals. Even gold makes me break out in hives. And man do they ever itch!! I bought my daughter a necklace that only had a metal clasp. I think it was like some kinda thread or hemp necklace...where the metal clasp was she broke out all across the backside of her neck.
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07-20-2009, 01:52 PM
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hope they figure out whats going on Lauren
I just found out I break out in hives when I use Off deep woods bug repellents. Only when I figured it out I was an hour from town camping! ahh it was bad. Hopefully you can pinpoint what it is that way you can just avoid it all together. My allergies come from fragrances... So I can only use certain perfumes, detergants, facial products, body washes, and of course now bug repellents. haha 
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07-20-2009, 02:11 PM
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yep me too!! Also sunscreen has caused me to break out before.
You really need to sit down and think about what you might have changed recently that could be causing the breakout. It could be a detergent, soap, fabric softener shampoo, conditioner, moistureizer, lotions....anything that comes in contact with your skin. Quote:
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07-20-2009, 02:14 PM
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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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07-20-2009, 03:42 PM
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that's crazy!!! my children will seriously get rid of me if we have to get rid of Cooper and Lucy!!!
i already told dh that if i'm allergic to the cats, we're getting a dog (if i'm not allergic to them too!) i have this bad feeling that the test is going to come up negative though and that i'm gonna have a mystery case of these buggers.... after i'm done w/ the meds maybe i'll try sending Cooper for a few days w/ my neighbor who i got him from, just to see if it makes a difference. crazy wonky immune systems!
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07-20-2009, 05:47 PM
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I agree with you there Lauren - getting rid of a pet is hard, even when its the only thing you can do. Ava was only 1 when we got rid of Willow, and she was sad and "off" for a couple days. She kept crawling around and looking under the couch, lol. Poor baby.
And yeah, the allergy test may very well turn up nothing. Apparently, I have no allergies. I didn't react one tiny bit to the cat test, lol... sending him away for a few days should tell you fairly quickly if its him or not!
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