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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, 11:15 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, 11:49 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, 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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